After seven years of marriage, she had become the perfect “parasitic vine” in her husband’s eyes: gentle, devoted to the home, and treating him as her whole world.
It wasn’t until he filed for divorce in court that she realized the truth: the man she had supported had been scheming against her for years, from beginning to end.
She wanted neither the house nor the money. She wanted only the child.
Her ex-husband laughed, convinced she was still a flower that couldn’t live without him.
He didn’t know that some plants only begin to grow wildly once they’re cut free from what they depend on.
This time, she would live for herself and grow into a lush expanse that blotted out the sky.
