Chapter 1

My obsession, Ethan Sinclair, fell in love with his tutor—a woman ten years older than him.

She was vibrant, wild, and radiating youth. She was everything I wasn't. I was just a coward hiding in the shadows.

She introduced him to a world of thrills, dragging him into her crazy adventures.

They would kiss at the highest point of the Ferris wheel, and hold each other tightly in private pools...

Later, their secret affair was exposed to the world. No one knew I was the informant.

She vanished into a snowy night, leaving her location in a single message only to me, asking me to pass it to him.

I smiled and agreed. Then, I deleted her sixty-second voice memo permanently.

That night, Ethan pounded on my door in the middle of a raging blizzard.

His eyes were bloodshot as he fell to his knees before me. He was broken, hysterical, and completely lifeless.

"She’s your aunt, Elena. You must know where she went. Please, just tell me. I'm begging you."

I smiled, gently closing the door, and pointed him in the exact opposite direction.

He rushed into a cab, chasing a ghost. And just like that, they missed each other forever.

I stayed by his side through his darkest eight years, watching him drown in near-depression.

Finally, I got the words I had waited a lifetime for.

"Let’s just settle for each other, Elena."

But eight years later, she returned. With his child.

Ethan threw a divorce agreement in my face without a single glance back.

Only then did I realize...

Stolen happiness always ends in the most humiliating way.