You'Re Married? Then Die, Liar!

After three years of marriage, Nora Lane discovers her marriage certificate is FAKE—and she’s still legally single. Her husband Adrian Stone, the man she trusted since childhood, is actually married to someone else: Clara Hayes, a replacement he found while Nora was...

You'Re Married? Then Die, Liar!

After three years of marriage, Nora Lane discovers her marriage certificate is FAKE—and she’s still legally single. Her husband Adrian Stone, the man she trusted since childhood, is actually married to someone else: Clara Hayes, a replacement he found while Nora was...

I found it in the bottom drawer of his desk—wedged behind old tax files and a dead flashlight. The marriage certificate. Our names, our date, the courthouse stamp. Everything looked perfect. Except I’d already called that courthouse. And they told me no record of us exists.

My hands wouldn’t stop shaking. Three years of shared birthdays, holidays, whispered promises in the dark—all built on a lie. I scrolled through photos on my phone: our kitchen, our dog, our trip to Santorini. Real moments. But was any of it legal?

Then I typed Clara Hayes into the search bar. There she was. Mrs. Adrian Stone. Married six months after my accident. Six months after the doctors said I might never wake up.

A noise downstairs snapped me back. The front door clicked open. He was home early.