Kelly My voice cracked on his name. “It was him all along. I spent years crying myself to sleep, thinking I was broken, that the Goddess had cursed me. But it was Bryan. He made me believe I was worthless and barren when he was the one at fault.” I let out a bitter laugh that quickly turned into a sob. “And as if that wasn’t enough, today… as I was coming back from the hospital, still reeling from everything I’d just learned, I caught him in bed with Tetra.” The words came out like shattered glass, cutting through the air. My chest ached as the memory replayed in my mind—the sound of their moans, the sight of their tangled bodies, his hand sliding over her skin the same way he used to touch me. “I stood there, staring, thinking maybe I was hallucinating. That maybe it wasn’t real. But it

