HATE THAT I LOVE YOU
“For years, I gave myself to him without complaint. I loved him like I’d never loved another; I worked diligently in the shadows to make him the man he is today, while he only ever regarded me as his trophy wife to his peers. I didn't mind; why? Because I loved my husband, and all I wished for was his success until I didn't anymore. Little did I know that I was the mistress in my own marriage.”
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Imani Knightley thought she had found her better half in Louis Benoit. They had met during her first year at the university, while she was studying for her masters. Imani would call it love at first sight, and it was beautiful. She would swear on her parents graves that her husband couldn’t live or breathe without her. They had only dated for a year before she introduced him to her parents, the Knightley's, and they got married a year later.
Imani would say her marriage to Louis was perfect, except for the fact that she’d been trying for kids for a while and every time life offers a glimmer of hope, she loses said hope. Yet she was happy; her marriage was perfect until it wasn’t anymore.
Her husband never gave her any reason to doubt his love for her, until the arrival of Louis' new personal assistant, who conveniently happened to be his ex-girlfriend.
Imani’s glass-perfect marriage and image shatter as she is faced with the betrayal and deceit of Louis Benoit. What happens when divorce isn’t an option but Imani wants out?
In a circle where Imani has always felt like an outcast despite the influence of her late parents, she turns to the arch-enemy of her husband with a yearning for vengeance.
"Since he chooses to go low, then I will reach to the depths of hell just to show him what the scorn of a woman feels like. I made him take a seat and watch me destroy him."