Secret Vanishing, The Thirty Second Mistress

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It was the seventh year of my marriage to Silas Hawthorne.

After his thirty-second mistress showed up at my door, I finally decided to give up on him.

I chose to sign myself over to a top-secret government project and vanish from his world forever.

But then he lost his mind, tearing the world apart just to find me.

"Lyra, I was wrong. Please, just come home," he pleaded.

In the past, a single soft word from him would have made me run back.

Unfortunately for him, this time, he was destin