Married to My Bestie's Husband

My best friend passed away from postpartum hemorrhage.

Ethan said he didn't want his child to grow up without a mother.

To repay my best friend for saving my life years ago, I became the child's mother.

I gave up my career and ambitions, willingly becoming a full-time housewife. For seven years, I cared for both father and son as if it were my life's mission.

Yet, he always remained distant, his tenderness surfacing only in the quiet intensity of late nights.

Afterward, he would hand me a few birth control pills.