Married For Convenience, Loved In Death

"Liam, let's get a divorce."

I said the words calmly, five years into being the perfect corporate wife to Liam Hayes, a man who married me for convenience, never love.

My life, carefully constructed on a transactional foundation, shattered when his high school sweetheart, Chloe Miller, returned, not just to reclaim her place in his life, but to tear down mine.

He publicly humiliated me at a charity gala, on a brightly lit stage in front of hundreds, announcing that our entire marriage was merely "a business arrangement."