After the cr3sh, the doctor said I needed urgent surgery, but my husband held another woman’s hand and muttered, “She’s always been fragile.”

goes first.”

Something inside me went cold.

For three years, I had been expected to understand why Mariana always came first. If she cried, Alejandro ran. If she felt lonely, he left me behind. If she accused me of being jealous, I was the one forced to apologize.

His mother always said, “A Montes wife must be mature. Mariana is like family.”

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