After a brutal betrayal, I made a decision so wild and spontaneous it shocked everyone—including me. What started as a silly act of revenge spun into something I never, ever saw coming. For 35 years, I’d always been the “reasonable” one. The dependable woman who thought things through, who never strayed from the safe path. But the day I discovered the truth about my fiancé, something inside me snapped. I stopped being reasonable. I became reckless. And honestly? I regret nothing. Let me rewind a bit. I had just crawled

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