The Afterglow of Us

"Liam Chase and I were legendary in Celandre City—the most infamous enemies ever bound by marriage.He hated me for being shameless, convinced I'd schemed my way into becoming his wife.I despised him for playing the celibate knight for Alexa Conley and treating me coldly.In eight years of marriage, his most frequent words to me were, "Get out."Then the flood came.The man who'd never spared me a single kindness shoved me onto the last lifeboat. Over the roaring water, he shouted, "Don't look back! Go! Khloe, my debt to you is paid. In the next life, I belong only to Alexa."I lunged for him, but someone wrenched me back. I could only watch as the water swallowed Liam whole.When rescue teams finally came, they found his body bloated, his fingers locked around Alexa's pendant in a grip no one could break.Afterward, I sold everything we owned, donated it all to the disaster relief, and jumped off a building.But when I opened my eyes, I was back… on the night Liam got drugged."