I looked at my reflection in the mirror. < img src = "https://zycie.news/crrops/902996/620x0/1/0/2025/03/15/gxnjtthk2xwr8h6xt8xhz4tc9jfes7topyc5ar.jpg" alt = "woman @pexels" styles = "background-color: rgba (126,121,95.1)" > < p > expensive pearls around the neck.
< p > dress with the best fabric. < p > elegant makeup, impeccably arranged hair. < p > I was a woman of success. Wife of an influential, rich man.< p > People looked at me with jealousy.
< p > considered me lucky.
< p > but no one knew that each coin has two sides.< p > I married him because I had no choice.
< p > long.
< p > no perspective. < p > mother in the hospital, and I didn't even have medicine. < p > was the only chance for rescue.< P >& Amp; MDASH; I promise you everything — M & oacute; by handing me a ring that cost more than my current life.
< p > promised me the world, and I knew I was selling my own soul.
< p > At the beginning it seemed that I could get used to it. < p > I got everything I wanted. < p > I had a house that I could only dream about.< p > subtra & oacute; that I didn't even dream about.
< p > money, which & oacute; re allow me to forget about old problems.< p > but they couldn't buy me love.
< p > or freedom.< p > The husband was like a predator who bought his prey.
< p > at every step reminded me of what he did for me.
< p > — Without me you wouldn't have anything & mdash; He whispered when he looked at me with g & oacute;
< p > — You are my property — m & oacute; when his hand clenched on my wrist.
< p > paid for me.< p > so he thought he might have ownership.
< p > every smile, which I showed the world, was a lie.
< p > every luxury that surrounded me, was a golden frame.
< p > A I ?
< p > I was a bird who closed her< p > I thought that the money would solve my problems.
< p > but they became my curse.
< p > One night I looked at the suitcase, which I packed a few hours earlier.< p > I knew that if I didn't leave now, I would never be free again.
< p > I had nothing.< p > I didn't have anywhere p & oacute;
< p > but I had one.
< p > yourself. < p > and it was worth more than all my husband's money.