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His Obsession, My Hell

His Obsession, My Hell

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My marriage to David Miller was a picture of perfection, a dream life built on his charm and our shared happiness. Then came the call: my mother in an accident, and David, my husband, utterly unreachable. Hours bled into sterile dread in the hospital waiting room, a dread far deeper than my mother' s condition. An unknown text arrived, a single photo: David, arm around another woman, intimate, familiar. It was my aunt, Sophia Hayes, my mother' s estranged sister, her smile painfully like mine. My world, once perfect, splintered into a million icy shards under the humming hospital lights. He returned late, weaving slick lies about dead phones and urgent meetings, as if I were a child to be placated. But as he signed the papers I put before him, oblivious, a chilling sense of irony settled heavy in my gut. The man I thought I knew, the husband who murmured of naming our child "Sophia," was a stranger. I found his study, not an office, but a shrine to her, filled with desperate letters and a diary detailing his monstrous plan: I was just a "perfect-looking replacement" to bear "his Sophia." The love, the marriage, the baby-all a grotesque fabrication, designed to resurrect his lost obsession. The pain threatened to split me, but beneath it, a cold, hard resolve began to form, sharper than any grief. He thought he' d signed investment papers; he' d signed his divorce, and my consent to end the lie he' d so carefully constructed within me. I walked out that night, leaving his diary open, his delusion exposed, ready to erase every trace of his monstrous fantasy.

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Introduction

My marriage to David Miller was a picture of perfection, a dream life built on his charm and our shared happiness.

Then came the call: my mother in an accident, and David, my husband, utterly unreachable.

Hours bled into sterile dread in the hospital waiting room, a dread far deeper than my mother' s condition.

An unknown text arrived, a single photo: David, arm around another woman, intimate, familiar.

It was my aunt, Sophia Hayes, my mother' s estranged sister, her smile painfully like mine.

My world, once perfect, splintered into a million icy shards under the humming hospital lights.

He returned late, weaving slick lies about dead phones and urgent meetings, as if I were a child to be placated.

But as he signed the papers I put before him, oblivious, a chilling sense of irony settled heavy in my gut.

The man I thought I knew, the husband who murmured of naming our child "Sophia," was a stranger.

I found his study, not an office, but a shrine to her, filled with desperate letters and a diary detailing his monstrous plan: I was just a "perfect-looking replacement" to bear "his Sophia."

The love, the marriage, the baby-all a grotesque fabrication, designed to resurrect his lost obsession.

The pain threatened to split me, but beneath it, a cold, hard resolve began to form, sharper than any grief.

He thought he' d signed investment papers; he' d signed his divorce, and my consent to end the lie he' d so carefully constructed within me.

I walked out that night, leaving his diary open, his delusion exposed, ready to erase every trace of his monstrous fantasy.

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1 Introduction
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2 Chapter 1
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3 Chapter 2
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4 Chapter 3
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5 Chapter 4
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6 Chapter 5
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7 Chapter 6
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8 Chapter 7
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9 Chapter 8
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10 Chapter 9
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11 Chapter 10
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12 Chapter 11
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13 Chapter 12
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14 Chapter 13
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15 Chapter 14
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16 Chapter 15
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17 Chapter 16
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18 Chapter 17
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19 Chapter 18
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20 Chapter 19
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21 Chapter 20
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22 Chapter 21
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23 Chapter 22
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24 Chapter 23
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25 Chapter 24
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