A Happy Wife

A Happy Wife

She said yes to love. And the chip that would make it last forever…

I never dreamed of a fairy-tale ending.

 Not when I grew up hungry, invisible, and utterly unchosen.

So when Ivan offered me love, safety, and a way out, I said yes.

 Even when he suggested we be chipped—an experimental neural implant that would lock in our love forever—I hesitated. But what else was I going to do? Go back to nothing?

Now I live in a luxury apartment.

 I smile when I’m supposed to.

 I feel what I’m supposed to feel.

Because the chip guarantees it.

 I am happy.

But then I find something I was never meant to see—proof that my husband may have other plans for me.

I want to believe I’m imagining things. That I’m tired. Paranoid.

 But what if I’m not?

Because the only way out of this marriage…

 is death.