My Husband Is Marrying Another Woman Without Divorcing MeChapter 1

When I was eighteen, Derek stormed into my house and stabbed my father eighteen times.

As the police hauled him away, he met the cameras with a calm, almost proud smile. “Why should I regret it?” he said. “No beast will ever hide behind the name of family to hurt her again. From this day on, Esther is free.”

Years later, when he got out of prison, I had nothing—no money in my pockets, no job offers.

He stubbed out his cigarette, threw himself into the ruthless circles of the capital, and clawed his way up until everyone called him President Vazquez.

After we got married, every password of his was set to my birthday. And yet, as I scrolled through his photo albums, all I saw were pictures of another woman—over thousands of them but not a single one of mine.

It was only then that he seemed to realize.

Without a word, he deleted all those photos, tossed his phone aside, and said flatly, “It’s all in the past. Pretend you never saw it.”

I slid the divorce papers across the table and intoned coldly, "I told you. Sign it."