Taimana's POV

I never meant for any of this to happen. I swear on it in my life. But the moment my pregnant body started betraying me, the darkness took over and dragged us both under.

My name is Taimana. I’m thirty-four years old, married to Mark for five years, and six months pregnant with his child. Mark gives me the big house, the luxury car and the life most women dream about. He also leaves me alone for weeks at a time while he chases deals across the country. Deals that make him leave me here with his nineteen-year-old son, Ethan—the boy who has lived under our roof since...