After My Ex Died, I Inherited His Fortune—Then I Met the Woman He Left Me For
After twenty years together, I thought I knew the man I’d planned to grow old with. Ziven had been my partner, my confidant, and the person I once trusted with my future. But everything changed the day I discovered he was having an affair—with a woman named Thalia.
We separated. He married her. I moved forward with my life, eventually becoming a mother to a beautiful daughter named Elowen. I ignored Ziven’s occasional texts, believing that chapter of my life was finally closed.
Then came the call: Ziven had died in a car crash.
I didn’t know how to process it. But what came next would change everything.
A few days later, a letter arrived. The envelope was old, worn at the corners. My name—Mirabel—was scrawled across the front in Ziven’s unmistakable handwriting. My hands trembled as I opened it.
In the letter, Ziven confessed. He apologized for the betrayal, admitted he had never truly stopped loving me, and said he regretted how things ended. The final line brought me to tears:
“If you’re reading this, I’m gone. Please believe me when I say the money is yours. It’s my way of saying sorry for everything I stole from you.”
Ziven had left me his entire $700,000 estate.
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