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“Still asleep, kitten? Or just pretending so I’ll keep talking?”
— Rhys
I woke before the sun. Not from duty. Not from the pulse of a security breach or the whisper of my father’s voice echoing through another broken dream. No. I woke because her body found mine in sleep and refused to let go. Jasmine Llewellyn—my wife, my war, my reason, curled into me like instinct. Like muscle memory carved from ruin. One bare leg thrown over mine, silk against scar, anchoring me so fiercely I couldn’t tell where she ended and I began.
And God, I didn’t want to.
The sheets around us were chaos—creased, dragged, tangled in the kind of night that rewrites your bones. Her fist clutched my shirt like a child who doesn’t trust the dark, like the second she lets go the world will vanish again. I knew that grip. Knew the way she slept with her cheek against my chest like she was listening for the sound of battle long after the ceasefire. Knew the scent of her hair spread like ink across my ribs, and the weight of her breath when it finally dropped out of survival mode and into something slower. Deeper. Almost human again.
Almost.
Because she hadn’t slept like this in weeks. Not since Santiago. Not since I held her hand in a hospital bed and realised there were wars you win only by surviving them—and even that came with a price. Not since we learned the cost of loving each other in public was having our names rewritten by people who’d never earned the right to speak them.
But last night?
Last night she walked into that studio like a weapon. Sapphire chained around her throat like a crown forged in fire, scars unhidden, unedited, untamed. And when they asked her about healing, about shame, about how she dared to exist after everything—She looked dead into the lens and said, “I survived. And that’s not your headline to write.”
Fuck. My heart didn’t just stutter—it knelt.
I’ve never felt pride like that. Not when my board handed me unanimous control. Not when Llewellyn Enterprises crossed into defence tech and no one dared question the ethics. Not when I made a kingdom out of a surname I once hated. None of it touched what I felt watching her declare war on a narrative and win with nothing but truth.
She’s the monument. The movement. The only empire I’ll ever swear fealty to.
And this morning, wrapped in the afterglow of something bigger than victory, listening to the faint rumble of Rumour snoring under the covers by her feet and the city outside starting to hum awake again—this was peace. Real. Unscripted. Earned.
Even the twins knew. I could feel them shift beneath her skin, subtle, like they were stretching for the first time in a world that finally felt safe enough to breathe in.
I kissed her shoulder. Once. Deliberate. Tracing my mouth along the faintest freckle like it meant something—and it did. Then reached for my phone, which had been vibrating against the night-stand like it had something urgent to say.
I didn’t need to open it to know.
“Jasmine Llewellyn Rewrites the Mental Health Narrative.”
“The Woman Who Refused to Disappear.”
“Unstoppable: How Jasmine Llewellyn Burned the Stigma to Ashes.”
I tucked it back into the drawer. Let the headlines scream without me.
She didn’t need me to read them aloud. She already knew.
Instead, I leaned in and kissed the spot behind her ear—the place that always made her hum, even in sleep.
“Still asleep, kitten?” I murmured. “Or just pretending so I’ll keep talking?”
Because I would. I’d talk until the sun burned out. About the way she walked through fire and smiled like it only lit the way forward. About the way she turned the weight of diagnosis into something weaponised and divine. About the fact that the only legacy I give a damn about is the one sleeping beside me, and the future growing inside her. Not the heirs to my empire. The heirs to our survival. Our defiance. And if this is the eye of the storm, then let it hold. I’ll take it in bed. Skin to skin. With her breath against my throat and my hand over the rise of her belly. No lies. No edits. Just the truth of us—feral, fucked up, and finally free.
Let the world write their headlines. She is the headline.
“Mmm, anything to hear your voice before I fully wake up to the world,” I purred into the sheets, voice still hoarse with sleep.
The air was quiet. Peaceful. Which meant naturally, my phone buzzed on the night-stand, vibrating itself into an existential crisis until I groaned and cracked one eye open to glare at it. I looked at the screen like it had personally betrayed me. Nicola’s name. A link.
God help me.
With the kind of courage usually reserved for mythical quests or using a public toilet in France, I reached for it. Tapped. Blinked against the light. And read the headline with the same reverence most people reserve for test results and ex’s apology texts.
THE PARIS INTERVIEW: JASMINE LLEWELLYN BREAKS HER SILENCE—AND REWRITES THE NARRATIVE By Elise Fontaine, European Correspondent | Morning Star, International Edition
I stared at the title for a second. Just stared. Because that was my name. My scandal. My face, probably now smeared across every newsfeed between here and hell. And the phrasing? “Breaks her silence”? Please. I’d broken more than that.
PARIS — Jasmine Llewellyn, wife of tech magnate Rhys Llewellyn and central figure in the now-infamous Llewellyn Estate scandal, made a public appearance last night in an exclusive sit-down interview that aired live from a private Parisian studio.
So far, so ominous.
Wearing a sleek, dark ensemble accented only by the sapphire heirloom necklace Rhys designed for her wedding…
I smirked. Damn right I did. And I wore it like a threat.
…Jasmine Llewellyn sat with spine straight, voice steady, and fire in her eyes.
I blinked. Slowly. Then grinned into my pillow. Okay, Elise.
The segment, advertised as a conversation about legacy and healing, quickly pivoted toward the controversy that has shadowed the couple for weeks—including rumours surrounding Jasmine’s mental health, a leaked medical history, and a former associate of Rhys’s who attempted to question her stability in the press.
Ah yes. That little circus.
Instead of sidestepping, Jasmine charged.
Of course I did. Tiptoeing through media landmines isn’t really my brand.
“I’ve been labelled a lot of things in my life. Difficult. Fragile. Dangerous. I’ve been diagnosed. Dismissed. Disbelieved. But let me make something very clear—having survived doesn’t make me unstable. It makes me unstoppable.”
Well, that explained the hundred notifications I ignored. The quote must’ve hit harder than a scandalous Met Gala dress and a divorce announcement combined.
The line sent social media into overdrive within minutes. What few expected was for her to own the story, on her terms, and weaponize the very narrative others hoped would shame her.
Rhys Llewellyn, seated beside her in a rare public show of vulnerability, echoed her message. “She’s not just the mother of my sons. She is my legacy. And no headline will ever own her again.”
I rolled onto my back, holding the phone above me, arm dangling like a lazy halo. My smile widened. Not because I was victorious. But because I was still here. Still me. Still married. Still unbowed.
Reactions:
• #JasmineLlewellyn trended worldwide within an hour of airing. • Women’s advocacy groups hailed the interview as “a landmark moment for mental health and survivor dignity.” • The model who previously questioned Jasmine’s stability declined to comment. • Media watchdogs are now investigating the source of the original medical leak.
I stared at the screen like it might vanish if I blinked. Like the algorithm was playing some cruel trick and would switch any second, swapping applause for accusations. But no. It stayed. Trending. Not for scandal. Not for shame. Not because someone found an old headline and decided to drag it through the mud for sport. No—this time, it was different.
Hero. Survivor. Voice for the voiceless.
I blinked again. Still there. My name wasn’t being dragged—it was being lifted. Up. Loud. And I didn’t know what to do with that. I’d spent years mastering the flinch before the blow. The brace. The reflexive apology for breathing too boldly in a room not built for women like me. But this time? The blow never came. The world didn’t slap me down. It stood up.
“Rhys…” I whispered, barely breathing the word, like saying it too loud would break the spell. “They’re calling me brave.”
My voice didn’t even sound like mine. It was too soft. Too stunned. Too full of something I didn’t dare name—something terrifying and beautiful. I scrolled, wide-eyed, as comments flooded in like a tide I’d never seen on my side before. Quotes from the interview were already etched into art. Women were putting my words on reels. On stories. Mental health advocates had picked up the pieces they used to weaponize against me and turned them into a shield.
I turned the phone toward him, hands still trembling.
“They’re not mocking it,” I said, voice climbing from disbelief to something rawer. “The BPD. The attempts. The diagnosis. They’re saying it’s… human. That it matters. That I matter.”
That last word nearly broke me. My voice cracked around it like it had been waiting too long to be said out loud. Because for the first time in my life, I didn’t feel like a cautionary tale. Or a liability. Or someone who needed to edit her grief to make it more palatable. For once, I wasn’t explaining myself into the ground. I told the truth—my truth—and they believed me.
I looked at him. Really looked. My eyes were shining, throat tight, everything inside me threatening to spill out in the space between us.
“You have no idea how long I’ve been waiting for someone to just… believe me,” I said, voice hoarse. “And now the whole world does.”
He pulled me into his arms before I even finished the sentence. I didn’t resist. I collapsed into him like a dam finally giving in. Still shaking. But this time, it wasn’t fear. It was relief.
“I thought I was walking into a firing squad,” I whispered into the warmth of his neck. “I thought I was going to be torn apart again.”
My hand clutched the edge of his shirt like I needed to anchor myself to something real. Because this didn’t feel real yet. Not entirely.
“But instead…” I exhaled. “I’m being heard.”
The laugh that escaped was a stunned, breathless thing. Almost hysterical. I tucked myself closer, nose pressed against his skin, blanket half up over my shoulder like some kind of post-battle cocoon.
“And all it took,” I muttered, “was global vulnerability, public reclamation, and a killer pair of heels.”
Because honestly? Those heels did deserve a mention in the acknowledgements.
I looked down at his hand—still resting over the gentle curve of my stomach, where our sons would eventually know me as more than a name in a headline.
“I didn’t just survive for them,” I said, barely above a whisper. “I survived for me.”
And now? Now the world finally knew my name. And this time, they couldn’t erase it.
