Her Pregnancy, My Exodus

I was Chloe, a frontwoman of "Nightingale & Guitarist," a life I’d painstakingly built with Liam, the struggling musician I’d saved.

For five years, I was his muse, his partner, his wife, having chosen him over my original, shattered reality.

Then, Liam began his affair with Kendra, our ambitious tour assistant.

For three unbearable years, I lived a grotesque parody of a marriage, enduring his blatant betrayals, his gaslighting, and Kendra’s open triumph, as if I had somehow deserved this calculated heartbreak.