When I Stopped Being Your Shadow

<p>He was the hand of God, the painter of the century. My husband became the best artist in the empire.<br/><br/>And I was his shadow.<br/><br/>Even when my work went viral under my husband’s name, even when people spoke ill of me behind my back.<br/><br/>It was still good. Because I loved my husband.<br/><br/>But on our wedding anniversary.<br/><br/>“You are the only person I truly love.”<br/><br/>I witnessed my husband whispering his love to my best friend.<br/><br/>At the very moment when my husband saw me discovering his infidelity, his face contorted viciously and pushed me away.<br/><br/>“Where are you raising your voice to your husband?!”<br/><br/>I realized.<br/><br/>I realized that that man had never loved me.<br/><br/>So I decided to become the evil wife they spoke of.<br/><br/>*<br/><br/>“I have a special story for you.”<br/><br/>Ines suggested in a strained voice.<br/><br/>A man as beautiful as God turned his eyes gently to her.<br/><br/>“It’s a special story, our newspaper won’t print the case if it’s not good enough……..”<br/><br/>“It’s the fall of the painter known as the Hand of God…”<br/><br/>Ines continued in a tense voice.<br/><br/>“Isn’t this good enough a scandal to be published in Elton, the greatest daily newspaper in the empire?”<br/><br/>“Then what does Countess Brighton gain from the scandal?”<br/><br/>“My life.”</p>