The Substitute Husband
READING AGE 18+
Olivia never expected her husband to return from the dead.
After the crash, she mourned him.
After the funeral, she began learning to live again.
Then he walked back into her life.
But the man who returned isn’t the husband she remembers. He’s more attentive. More passionate. More possessive. He watches her like she’s the only thing that matters.
And slowly… dangerously… she begins falling in love with this new version of him.
There’s only one problem.
He isn’t her husband.
He’s Adrian… her husband’s twin brother, who has loved her in silence for years.
Now he’s taken his brother’s place… and her heart.
But when love is built on lies, the truth could destroy them both.
Unfold
The apartment is a masterwork of capitulation: every surface below waist height is armored in foam, kitchen drawers resist even adult hands, and the coffee table’s sharp edges wear peeling padded tape. A basket of burp cloths camps on the couch; the grey rabbit bears a stain and matted paw from last week’s gnawing crisis.
Just after nin……
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