My Husband Punished Me for a Child That Was Never His Rival's

I will not explain myself to a man who already decided who I am. On paper I'm Vivian Ashford — wife of the city's most powerful heir, mistress of a house I'm not allowed to leave. In truth I'm a jeweler he buried, a woman he calls unclean over a child he never let me explain, and the last person alive who knows why my brother's car went off the road three years ago. Damien thinks I aborted another man's baby. He lets his secretary pour poison in his ear, strips me of my work, and mocks the empty cradle he swears I'll never fill. He does not know the truth about that night would end him, not me. I let him believe it. I let all of them believe it. Because the day I open my mouth, the wife they pity becomes the woman who owns every secret in this family — and I decide whose name burns first. They will learn what they broke. I already know exactly how I'll rebuild it, one cut at a time.