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Claire
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Ongoing, First published Nov 07, 2025
Mature
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"Let's get a divorce."

The words should have broken her. Instead, she felt nothing.

Claire Bennett thought she had built a quiet, ordinary marriage with Ethan Miller until the day he asked to leave for his first love, Vanessa Reed. Without tears or arguments, Claire signs the papers and walks away, determined to return her life to the way it was before Ethan.

But cutting contact completely is never simple. Vanessa's envy runs deep, and Ethan's certainty begins to crumble as the woman he left behind starts to shine without him. When a mysterious artist named Ryan Carter steps into Claire's life, he challenges everything she thought she knew about love, loyalty, and self-worth.

In a world where appearances mean everything, Claire learns that the greatest revenge is peace, and that the right love never asks her to wait.
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