99 Proposals, One Betrayal

For three years, I, the actress Ava, poured my heart into loving Ethan.

I proposed to him 99 times, each met with a casual rejection, yet I clung to the hope that my devotion would eventually win him over.

But one night, a chilling discovery shattered my deluded reality.

I overheard Ethan whispering words of passionate love, not to me, but to a photograph of his niece, Mia.

My heart slammed against my ribs.

My boyfriend, the man I lived with, was obsessed with his much younger niece, and I was merely a convenient cover for their forbidden relationship.