The Beastman Escort My Ex Hired Became My Husband

Every time Lucian cheats, he brings Cynthia a beastman—to even things out, he says. She always refuses. This time, with a wolf beastman named Orion standing beside her and Lucian announcing that his mistress Xenia is pregnant, Cynthia takes Orion's arm and walks out of the VIP room. Behind her, Lucian's smirk freezes and his friends start hooting.

The marriage had rotted long before. Cynthia spent years ignoring every affair, weighed down by a secret. When Lucian's business nearly failed, she took a large sum of money that almost broke him. He never learned she used it to save his father's life. She couldn't tell him. She believed his cruelty would soften into forgiveness. It only sharpened.

The morning after, she comes downstairs in a robe, fresh marks on her neck. She signs the divorce papers without pause. Lucian freezes at her signature, still expecting the old Cynthia—teary, raging, tearing up the papers. Instead she tells him to meet her at the courthouse at two. Xenia glides down, apologizing that she just doesn’t want her pup called a bastard. Lucian grabs the pen, signs, then leans close and whispers that once the baby arrives they will remarry—and Cynthia can raise the child. She laughs once, takes the suitcase packed long ago, and walks.

At one-fifty she calls him from a courthouse bench. He is taking Xenia for a checkup and cannot get away. She texts her lawyer: file for a court divorce. That evening, she attends Lucian's family dinner alone, at his father Leo's request. Lucian walks in with Xenia on his arm. Leo slams his fork down. Lucian's mother Martha glances at both women and delivers a single line that insults them both. Lucian, who once would have defended Cynthia, pulls Xenia close and warns his mother not to talk about "my woman." Cynthia stands, bored, and leaves. Lucian follows, ready to say something cutting. Orion is already waiting by the door.