My King, My Coma Patient

My husband, Ethan, lay in a coma, drowning in medical bills that threatened to crush me.

Desperate, I took a lifeline: an offer to return to Elysium, the hyper-realistic virtual world I helped create, for a reality show.

My task: "reconnect" with AI King Aiden, a being I' d shaped, poured my heart into, years ago.

But the Aiden I found was a cold, opulent stranger, surrounded by cameras and a smug rival queen, Nova, who reveled in every public humiliation.

He dismissed me, mocked my desperate plea for funds, even specifically mentioning Ethan' s rising medical debt.