Chapter 1: Change of the Heart

The clock chimed eleven o'clock., each strike a tiny hammer against the silence of the house, as always. I had been sitting in the living room for what felt like forever, though my phone told me it had only been three hours and forty-seven minutes since I first settled onto the sofa. Three hours and forty-seven minutes of watching the moonlight trace patterns across the expensive Persian rug Marcus had bought last year, on a day when Lily was too weak even to lift her head from the pillow. My phone remained clutched against my chest, its screen went dark, silent. I had called him seven times. Texted him three times. Each unanswered message chipped away at whatever resolve I had left to maintain our fragile peace. The lock finally turned open in the front door, the sound echoing through the house like a gunshot. I didn't move, didn't breathe, just listened to the familiar sequence: the soft click of the door closing, the sigh of his coat being removed, and the gentle thud of his

Last Updated : 2026-03-23

Chapter 2: Making a promise that he never hold to

I don't know how long I stood there, staring at the closed bedroom door, wondering how I had ended up married to someone so heartless as Marcus Thorne. I could remember so clearly how my family hadn't liked him, not really. My mother had called him "charming but shallow," my father had noted his "expensive tastes and cheap morals," but they had respected my decision because they loved me. Because I had wanted him so desperately. I had believed he would love me until our last breath, just as I loved him. But it wasn't the same. After we had been married for just two years, he started showing me the other side of him, the side that cared more about appearances than reality, more about convenience than commitment. By then, I was pregnant with Lily, and I didn't want to walk away from the marriage. I didn't want to give birth to my child as a divorced single mother. And so I had to stay. For the sake of my child, for the sake of my family, for the sake of the life I thought we were buil

Last Updated : 2026-03-25

Chapter 3: Getting caught with his Mistress

It was an address, followed by the name of a hotel and its room number. The Grand Hyatt. Room 814. If you want to see for yourself come quickly now. I read the message. My hands trembled as I stared at the screen, the words blurring through a fresh wave of tears. The Grand Hyatt, that was where Marcus had taken me for our anniversary last year, before everything fell apart. Before Lily's diagnosis had consumed our lives. I looked over at Lily, who had drifted back into her fitful sleep, her small brow furrowed with discomfort even in unconsciousness. Her breathing was shallow, each inhale was a struggle. Severe Combined Immunodeficiency, SCID, the doctors called it. A cruel genetic lottery that had left my daughter without a functioning immune system, rendering her vulnerable to every germ, every virus, every bacterium that crossed her path. The bone marrow transplant they were planning was her only hope, a one-in-four chance of finding a perfect donor match and a fifty percen

Last Updated : 2026-03-26

Chapter 4: For my dying Daughter Seek

The cab ride home was a blur of streetlights and unshed tears. I stared out the car window, watching the city pass by in a smear of colors and shapes, a world that continued to turn even though mine had just stopped spinning. When we pulled up in front of our house, I paid the driver without meeting his eyes in the rearview mirror, my hands shaking so badly that I nearly dropped the money. The house was so dark and silent when I let myself in, a tomb that held nothing but memories of a life that was no longer mine. I moved through the rooms like a ghost, my bare feet silent on the cold floors, until I reached our bedroom. The bed was still unmade from this morning where he had slept, the indentation on Marcus's side of the mattress was a cruel reminder of his absence. I collapsed onto the bed, as I buried my face in his pillow, inhaling the faint scent of his cologne which hit so differently that when it hit me, the scent didn't belong to him. And then I began to cry, not the silent

Last Updated : 2026-03-30

All Chapters of The Daughter He Let Die : Chapter 1 - Chapter 4

Chapter 1: Change of the Heart

Chapter 2: Making a promise that he never hold to

Chapter 3: Getting caught with his Mistress

Chapter 4: For my dying Daughter Seek