Melomiri

The Fallen Noble Wife

Language: en

Seven years after I walked out of the opulent gates, I found my ex-husband standing by a dirty oil drum at the auto repair shop. He was a VIP, there to pick up his multi-million dollar supercar, the kind of man everyone in the city deferred to. The undisputed prince of the elite. And me? I was the car wash girl, in an ill-fitting uniform, my hands chapped and raw from the cold. For a full hour, he sat in the waiting lounge, never once glancing in my direction. Until the manager, eager to curry favor, pointed at a muddy tire and barked at me: "Go on, use a toothbrush to clean the pebbles…

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