Regret’s Embrace

For seven years, I lived a quiet life as a musician, believing my wife, Sophia, kept her distance to protect my "fragile artistic temperament."

It was a story I told myself, a reason for the cold silence of our marriage.

But that carefully constructed world shattered when I overheard her whispering another man' s name in the moonlight-her half-brother, Liam.

The whispers festered, revealing a truth more agonizing than I could have imagined: her passion, her longing, was all reserved for him.