Azalea

Everyone in the hall made gasping sounds when he said this. I felt like someone had hit me in the stomach. He even added his last name to mine. This evil man. He smiled when he saw how shocked I looked, like he enjoyed seeing me suffer.

“Oh,” Chiara said, her voice changing. “I did not know you are his wife.”

“I am not,” I said quickly, panic rising in my chest. “I am not his wife.”

But then he did something that made my world stop moving—he ...