Groveling for the Wife He Betrayed

She found out from a stranger. Not from her husband. From a laughing woman at a rally table passing a book across like it was nothing. Cecilia Redfern read the chapter three times in a bathroom stall while the music played outside. Seven things inside that book belonged only to her. Her grief. Her garden. Her private country. And Conrad had given every single one away. For two years, he cheated and he handed their most sacred intimacy to another woman. Not her body. Something far worse. He gave her Cecilia's soul. Eight years later, Conrad is still sitting in the same diner booth every Saturday at eight. No grand gesture. No begging. Just a man who finally understands what he destroyed and cannot stop trying to deserve the right to say so. Cecilia built something real without him. She does not need him. But she has never stopped tending the garden she planted for everything they lost.