After My Miscarriage, I Divorced the CEO Who Faked His SilenceChapter 1

Three years into our marriage, my husband Chester Delgado suddenly lost the ability to speak.

He understood everything. He just refused to say a single word.

To take care of him, I walked away from a career at the top of the simultaneous interpreting industry and became his shadow.

I ran his meetings, drank on his behalf at business dinners, stepped in for every situation that needed a voice.

I believed my sacrifice would bring him back.

Then, three months pregnant, I slipped in the bathroom. Warm blood pooled beneath me in an instant.

Terrified out of my mind, I grabbed the hem of his trousers and forced out every word I had left in me.

"Chester, call a doctor. Save our baby."

He looked away. Stepped over me. Left.

The day I was discharged, I dragged my hollow body home

and heard a low, beautiful voice drifting from the study.

"This song is only for you."

Chester was wearing headphones, crooning a love song.

His eyes were half-lidded, his whole face soft in a way I'd never seen directed at me.

On the other side of the screen was his childhood sweetheart, the one he hadn't seen in years.