He Stands at the End of Memory
RonyeTragic LoveFeel-Good StoryObsessiveUnattainable LoveBiasMistressCountdownWinning Back the WifeRegret
When Vivienne Carter married Sebastian Cross at twenty-two, everyone said how lucky she was.
He was ten years older, a mafia Don with terrifying power in his hands, and yet for three years he doted on her alone.
He indulged her in everything, kept her sheltered under his wing, tender and attentive down to the smallest detail.
Only in the dead of night did he turn possessive and overpowering, taking without limit, never once relenting even when she begged him through tears.
She had always been certain she was the one thing he loved.
Then her father died without warning. Drowning in grief, she called him ninety-nine times, and every call was cut off.
In an instant, a single photo shattered every illusion she had.
On a Paris street softened by dusk, the man she'd loved for three years was bending to hold another woman.
That woman, gentle-featured and faintly resembling her, was her cousin.