He Chose My Cousin I His Downfall: A Cheating Husband Betrayal Revenge Romance Novella

He Chose My Cousin I Chose His Downfall Everly and Colton got married young, the kind of small-town wedding where half the guest list is family. Ivy - her cousin, practically her sister - stood up there with her. Nobody plans for it to be Ivy. That's what makes it worse. It doesn't start as an affair. It starts as Ivy going through her own divorce and Colton "checking in," the way people do when they've known each other twenty years. Everly notices the family group chat go quiet when she walks in the room. Her aunt gets cagey on the phone. Colton starts needing space on weekends he's actually spending forty minutes away, at Ivy's place. Everly isn't the type to hire a lawyer and go scorched earth. She's got a car payment and a job at the hospital and a mother who keeps asking "are you sure" like Everly's the one who did something wrong. So when she finally says something, it's not a plan. It's just the truth, said out loud, at Thanksgiving, in front of everyone Colton has spent his whole life trying to impress. He doesn't lose his money. He loses the thing he actually cared about - what people in that town think of him. And once that's gone, so is everyone else.