My Husband Wants Me Dead novel (Esther and Bradley)

Why did she have to bear the blame for what Liliane had done? Was her biggest mistake in her life falling in love with Bradley? Did her love for him essentially hand him the weapon to hurt her? Bradley had used that very weapon to hurt her deeply.

“You think it’s just this one thing?” he asked.

Esther was stunned. What else had she done?

Suddenly, it felt like lightning had pierced the darkness of her mind. She trembled and expressed her suspicions, saying, “Bradley, did you always despise me… because I wanted to marry you?”

This was the question she needed answers to.

Did he truly loathe her so intensely?

Bradley offered no response but forcefully kissed her and pulled her back into the crystal coffin.

over Esther. Even

would gain the most from everything that had transpired, but any glimmer of hope she held onto vanished the

toward her. It was

that’s why he

why he didn’t use Felix as leverage, it was because Felix stood to

to believe that the man she had once loved

“Why, Bradley—”

chance to speak. Instead, he

amount of time, Bradley finally looked at Esther, who was nearly lifeless, with

at Bradley’s retreating figure and laughed bitterly. Her laughter reverberated in the silent underground chamber, haunting Bradley like a specter. He

took a deep breath to steady himself, and swiftly left the

basement reverted to its