He Took My Eyes for Another WomanChapter 1

My husband was the one who had me taken.

Not some faceless enemy. Not a stranger lurking in the dark. It was the man who once lifted my paint-smudged fingers to his lips and told me I was the reason he could still dream. The man who said my art was his light.

Only now did I understand that the light he wanted was literal.

I drifted awake wrapped in the sting of disinfectant and the taste of metal in the back of my throat. Machines hummed softly around me, but it was the voices that cut through the haze first.

“Sir… are you certain about this? Using Mrs. Whitmore’s corneas for that patient is—”

“She gave me a child,” a man answered evenly. “She lost her vision bringing my daughter into this world. I’m restoring what she paid with. What belongs to me, I take responsibility for.”

Julian.

My husband.

A daughter.

So it wasn’t just an affair. He hadn’t simply strayed. He’d built a family with her.