Blurb：
Audra Beckett’s two-decade marriage shatters when she uncovers her CEO husband Jared’s double life with Geneva Lang – his secret mistress and mother to his hidden son, Aiden. Amid grueling IVF treatments to fulfill Jared’s sudden demand for an heir, Audra discovers the chilling truth: her pregnancy is merely a bone marrow source for Aiden’s terminal illness. Torn between love’s corpse and a mother’s fury, Audra plots ruthless revenge against Geneva’s calculated schemes, Jared’s corporate empire, and Eleanor Beckett’s icy manipulations. But when a violent clash at Eleanor’s birthday gala exposes Audra to Geneva’s venom and Aiden’s hatred, the betrayed wife must choose: protect her unborn child or burn Jared’s legacy to ashes.
Content：
§PROLOGUEThe words bled through the solid oak of the nursery door, sharp and clear as splintered glass.
“Don’t worry, Geneva.”
That was my husband’s voice, thick with a tenderness I hadn’t heard directed at me in years.
“Once Audra has the baby, we can finally get the bone marrow for Aiden.”
My world, meticulously built over two decades of love and sacrifice, shattered into a million silent pieces on the cold marble floor.
§01
For twenty years, my life had been built on a single, loving promise from my husband, Jared Beckett.
A life for two.
No children.
“I can’t bear the thought of you suffering through pregnancy, Audie,” he’d whispered on our wedding day, his eyes, the color of warm whiskey, brimming with what I believed was adoration.
“I just want you. That’s more than enough for me.”
Because I loved him with an intensity that bordered on worship, I agreed without a second thought.
That same afternoon, while he was finalizing our honeymoon details, I went to a clinic alone.
I had an IUD fitted, a small copper anchor dropped into the heart of my womanhood, tethering my future to his promise.
It was my secret sacrifice, my ultimate vow of love to him.
§02
For two decades, we were the couple everyone envied.
We were the founders of Keystone Holdings, the dynamic duo who had turned a garage start-up into a Wall Street powerhouse.
In the early years, I was the one pulling all-nighters, charming investors, and securing deals while Jared refined the vision.
Later, as the company stabilized, he gently persuaded me to step back.
“You’ve worked so hard,” he’d said, massaging my tired shoulders. “Let me take care of you now.”
So we became the ones who still held hands at gallery openings, who traveled to Tuscany on a whim, whose lives weren't dictated by soccer practice and parent-teacher conferences.
It was a beautiful, gilded cage, and I didn't even realize I was inside it.
§03
Then, three years ago, everything changed.
It was the anniversary of the day we secured our first major funding—a day that had always been *our* day.
Jared knelt before me in our penthouse apartment, the city lights twinkling below like a carpet of fallen stars.
His expression was filled with a raw, desperate longing I hadn’t seen since our starving artist days.
“Audie,” he’d whispered, his voice cracking. “I was wrong. I was a fool.”
“I look at everything we’ve built, this empire… and it feels empty. I want to give you a complete family. I want our child, our heir, to inherit everything.”
His words were the key that unlocked a part of my heart I had sealed away for twenty years.
The secret, aching desire for a child of my own.
§04
I remembered all those years of biting my tongue at family gatherings.
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