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Her Husband Became Her Heartbreak
Husband Betrayal Romance Cheating AngstBy Lynda Stewart
Length8h 48m
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Juno Larkin can walk into a failing house and tell you exactly where it will give — which joint is carrying more than it was built to, which beam is quietly done. She has spent her life being the useful one, the capable one, the one who makes things stand, and for nine years she was that in her marriage too: the wife who kept the load while her architect husband took the credit. What she can't see, until she finds a second set of keys, is the rot behind her own wall.
Anders Nordholm didn't cheat because he stopped loving his wife. He cheated because he couldn't survive her getting better than him. Every year Juno grew, he felt himself shrink — and rather than love a woman who had outgrown needing his drawings, he chose the junior draftsman who looked up at him and made him feel large again. His betrayal isn't hunger. It's envy. And this is the rare book that makes a man small before it lets him grow.
Juno doesn't beg. She moves into a jobsite loft, takes the firm's biggest client for her own crew, and builds Larkin Restoration into a name that stands without his. Anders spends a year in therapy he does alone, before he's allowed anywhere near her — refusing his father's partnership, the one that depended on the marriage looking intact, and finally signing the house he designed, his masterpiece, into her name. Not to buy her back. Because a man can't keep the thing he hid inside and call himself changed.
The other woman is no villain. Marisol wanted what the profession made scarce, used a real thing badly, owned it, and moved on with her dignity. And when Juno finally chooses — cautiously, slowly, from full hands — she chooses from strength, a woman who has stopped earning love by being useful.
Her Husband Became Her Heartbreak is an emotional, grown-up second-chance romance about the quietest, ugliest reason a marriage breaks: not another woman, but a husband who couldn't stand his wife's light. A real infidelity reckoning, a year of hard grovel measured in changed behavior not charm, an other woman written as a human being, and a deliberately modest, hard-won happily-ever-after — two people dating slowly, on borrowed ground neither of them designed, building the one thing between them that finally stands square.
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Romance
Length8 hrs 48 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Content note: this book contains marital infidelity and betr
2Prologue Juno The old staircase has been lying to everyone i
3Chapter 1 Anders There is a photograph of Juno on the local
4Chapter 2 Juno The keys are in the kitchen drawer where we k
5Chapter 3 Anders Greer answers the door before I have finish
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6Chapter 4 Juno I move out on a Thursday, and I move into a j
7Chapter 5 Anders My father summons me to the firm on Monday,
8Chapter 6 Juno I do not go looking for Marisol Quintero. She
9Chapter 7 Anders The office is on the second floor of a plai
10Chapter 8 Juno The Ashby house is failing the way old houses
11Chapter 9 Anders Dr. Cadora's office is on the second floor
12Chapter 10 Juno Anders sends flowers to the jobsite on a Tue
13Chapter 11 Anders My father summons me to the firm on a Frid
14Chapter 12 Juno Marisol Quintero is waiting outside the jobs
15Chapter 13 Anders I do the honest thing on a Thursday, alone
16Chapter 14 Juno I read the feature in the loft, at the bench
17Chapter 15 Anders Dr. Cadora keeps a drafting stool in the c
18Chapter 16 Juno Greer shows up at the loft on a Tuesday with
19Chapter 17 Anders I go back to the house on a Sunday to get
20Chapter 18 Juno The Ashby job is the kind of work that makes
21Chapter 19 Anders The thing about a firm built to look right
22Chapter 20 Juno The preservation board holds its recognition
23Chapter 21 Anders The deed is a single sheet of paper, and I
24Chapter 22 Juno The Ashby stair is a hundred and forty years
25Chapter 23 Anders The lawyer's office has a window that look
26Chapter 24 Juno The news comes to me sideways, the way real
27Chapter 25 Anders The rented rooms face east, which means th
28Chapter 26 Juno The county honors the Ashby restoration on a
29Chapter 27 Anders The bungalow belongs to a young couple nam
30Chapter 28 Juno I'm the one who calls him. I want that on th
31Chapter 29 Anders She sets the pace, and I keep to it, and k
32Chapter 30 Juno The Ashby house wants its bones read before
33Chapter 31 Anders Dr. Cadora keeps her office plainer than I
34Chapter 32 Juno The apartment over the dead stationery shop
35Chapter 34 Juno The Ashby stair is done in June and it holds
36Epilogue Juno Eighteen months out from the worst February of
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