LAUREN'S POV

I knew he was going to be here the very moment I saw Sofia. Her presence had already confirmed the possibility, but still, a part of me prayed it wouldn’t be true. Yet here he was, standing before me after five long years, the man I had once called my husband, the man who destroyed everything.

Ethan my ex-husband

The sight of him was like a sudden crack of thunder in the middle of a silent night. My chest tightened, not with longing or regret, but with a burning reminder of betrayal. Memories surged through me, his betrayal of Elena, the way he walked away as if none...