My Husband's New Heart Made Him Love Another Woman

After my husband Julian Blackwood got a heart transplant, he fell for a widow seven years his senior.

At my birthday party, he gave her my seat at the head of the table.

"Audrey doesn't like chocolate. Change the cake to strawberry."

I stood up, face set in stone, and walked out, leaving behind the obedient wife I used to be.

He roared after me, "Why are you being so unreasonable? My new heart makes me love her—can't you try to understand?"

I laughed, tears streaming down my face.

The truth he never learned was that the donor had loved me since the very beginning.

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