Months I Felt – what really happened
Months i felt – For months, I felt dizzy only after dinner — the meals my husband insisted on cooking. He swore I was ‘just tired.’ But last night, I hid the food instead of eating it… and pretended to collapse. Seconds later, I heard him whisper on the phone: ‘She’s unconscious. Was that dose enough? When do I get my cut?’ My heart shattered as I lay there, motionless. So the thing slowly killing me… wasn’t stress. And it wasn’t love. It was my husband.”
Isabella Grant used to be the kind of woman people envied. She had a stable job as a senior marketing analyst, a warm townhouse in Portland, and a husband who cooked dinner every night, kissed her forehead every morning, and posted anniversary tributes online that made strangers sigh. But over the past four months, everything had begun to unravel in ways she could barely track.
It started with dizziness — a subtle sway in her vision after dinner. Then came the headaches. The shaking hands. The sudden weakness. The exhaustion so heavy she could barely stand after 8 p.m.
Her husband, Travis Monroe, always had the same answer: “Izzy, you’re burning yourself out at work. That’s all.”
He said it with a patient smile. Warm eyes. A hand resting on her shoulder. She wanted to believe him. But the timing…The pattern…The strange, expectant look in his eyes after she finished her plate…Something didn’t feel right.
And when Isabella once caught him staring at her over dinner with a tiny, satisfied half-smile she had never seen before — a smile meant for himself, not for her — she felt something cold slide down her spine. For the first time in their marriage, she felt unsafe while sitting across from her own husband.
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