Married To My Ex-Husband’s Rival by Jobet GraySon

Chapter Shy Two (Marlene’s Backstory) Chapter Sixty Two (Marlerie’s Backstory) Marlene’s POV.

937% 5 Stars It's been ten whole years since my mother taughtto make Amber’s downfall my life's mission. | was taught to make sure that Amber never succeeded in anything, and even if she does get any success, it shouldn't be anything worth recognizing that'd make her any better than my siblings and me.

Before | started to do everything possible to make Amber's life hell, | genuinely used to care about her. She was my big sister, and everyone referred toas her protege, who was simply born to follow in her big sister's footsteps. At first, | was honored to have everyone think I'd be like her because, as much as | hate to admit it, Amber was incredible.

She was beautiful, had good grades, and was popular. Everyone regarded Amber as a perfect girl who had a perfect life. Well, everyone except Amber herself.

As much as | admired her back then, I couldn't stand her lack of confidence, and it wasn’t until Mom opened my eyes that it dawned onthat, despite being so perfect at everything, Amber wasn’t satisfied. She was a greedy attention-seeking bi tch who would try to appear fragile and easily intimidated just to get people to look at her and stick to her side.

I never understood why she was like that. She had it all; she was everything | wasn’t, and yet, she would spend most of her nights wallowing in self-pity, talking about how hard it was being her.

telling how much she wished she could just disappear, and how she would prefer if everyone just left her alone and stopped thinking she was happy.

At first, | felt bad for her, and I thought it would stop one day, but it never did. And one day, Mom opened my eyes and taughtwhat Amber really was.

It all started when | was eleven and Amber was Nineteen. Since | was the lkid who was only known for having a cool big sister, | had no choice but to use her to make myself more likeable to others. So one day, | begged her to show up for a friend's party, after | assured my friend that my sister would be coming too.

Since Amber was popular, her presence would makelook cool, and it'd also make my friends want to hang aroundeven more. When | asked her, she agreed to come. In fact, she promisedthat she’ cand even toldthat she would bring a few of her friends so they could hang out with us, but unfortunately for me, she never kept her word.

She didn’t show up like she promised, and not only did that makeseem like a liar, but | also 1/4 ended up getting called all sorts of names because she didn’t keep her word. | didn’t hate her immediately, though. | was poet, angry, and furious, and | wanted to yell at her, but | didn’t hate her just yet.

But that was until | got hand ran to her room to ask her why she didn’t keep her word. When 1, did, | found her seated on the floor, and once again, she was wallowing in self-pity like someone under a curse.

It was at that point that | knew she didn’t deserve my admiration. And the worst part was that the didn’t even remember her promise to me, and | ended up having to console her when I had just been insulted and thrown out of my friend's party because, thanks to her, | didn’t keep my word.

Instead of apologizing toand making it up to me, she was bawling her eyes out when absolutely nothing happened to her. It was at that moment that | knew that Amber, the girl everyone, including myself, thought was so perfect and so great, was nothing but a sociopath who craved attention and would disregard anyone, including her family, to get it.

That was the root of it all. It was after that happened that Mom started to talk about Amber with me, and she never once said anything nice. She toldthat Amber was exactly like her late mother and that if | didn’t learn how to deal with someone like her early on, I'd have to spend the rest of my life living under her shadow and being the girl who never got anything.

| was only eleven, but thanks to Amber, | lost my childhood from that point on. My life started to revolve around being a better Amber, and my mother stopped at nothing to make sure that | succeeded. | had to study harder and change my diet to lose weight, and when | did, | becaddicted to always looking my best and making sure no one else looked better than me. This was the only way to step out of her shadow.

| needed to make sure that Amber, the daughter of Elena, whom my mother hated more than anything would never be better than me. If she had something good, | had to take it from her. If she rose to a certain extent, | had to make sure she hit rock bottom again and again just to make sure she'd never stand a chance at ever being better than me.

When Kayden showed up suddenly with his suggestion of an arranged marriage with Amber, my mother was furious, but she couldn't refuse being an in-law to a powerful family like Kayden’s family. So reluctantly, she and Dad convinced Amber to marry him. And even after that happened, even after sh was given such a good opportunity to marry a man like him, Amber ended up doing the very thing! hated her for 0 Transaction Fees Sat, 2 Mar UDG 36% Chapter Sixty Two (Marlene’s Backstory! ng to get 5 Stars Sne wallowed in seir-pity, crea nerser to sleep, and talked about not wanting get married, only to end up falling in love with him about a month later. It irkedso much because | couldn't understand why things couldn’t be simple with her.

Did she always have to cry? Did she always have to play the victim and react to things like she didn’t deserve them, only to embrace them and act differently moments later? Why couldn’t she just be real, instead of pretending and wanting people to pity her? | was only nineteen when it all happened with Kayden, but my mom wasn’t having it. She couldn't let Amber keep such a man, and as her underling, | was in charge of taking away what she believed Ambe couldn't have.

So, just like that, | started an affair with Kayden. | had refused at first, worried that someone like him was too old for me, but when | saw Amber smile around him and talk about how happy she was, | couldn’t let her smile last. | hated the fact that she was happy, and | wanted to see her wallow in self-pity again and again since that was how she had always lived her life.

When Kayden and | got together, my age was going to be a problem, but Mom, determined to make sure | won without letting anyone in the family know, found a way to manipulate my age and makeolder than | was.

When | found out along the way that Kayden was equally as despicable as | was, | didn’t bother hiding my age from him anymore, and unsurprisingly, he didn’t care. And everyone who doesn’t knowpersonally most likely thought that | was twenty-four years old when | was only just twenty-one.

Kayden wasn’t the man of my dreams or a prize like Amber thought he was to me. In fact, | couldn't care less about the man at first. He was just something Amber had, and since | believed she didn’t deserve him, | took him for myself.

| now had unlimited wealth and power, but it still wasn’t over. Amber was still thriving, and she even dared to get something better than what | had taken from her.

But it wasn’t going to last. | wasn’t going to let it last. The pitiful, useless, and sad girl she always made herself to be was exactly how | intended to make her live for the rest of her life.

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