Modern AU where Nesta pulls a Gone Girl, except her plan is born out of genuine fear for her life and a desire to escape her restraints.
Feyre's billionaire boyfriend, Rhysand, has spent years using his wealth, influence, and carefully cultivated public image to keep everyone around him firmly under his thumb. If his younger brother, Azriel, isn't abusing his career as a private investigator to conduct illegal surveillance and dig up dirt on anyone Rhysand deems a threat, then it's his half-brother, Cassian, a decorated former soldier and Jiu-Jitsu expert, using his size and strength to intimidate those same people, acting as Rhysand's loyal attack dog who will do anything for his brother.
From the moment Rhysand entered her family's life, Nesta became his favorite target. He blamed her almost exclusively for not doing enough to care for poor Feyre during the years the Archerons lived in crushing poverty, as if it were her fault that Mr. Archeron's business dealings led the family into debt. Every dinner became another opportunity to needle and belittle her under the guise of concern as her brother-in-law. Azriel quietly kept tabs on her every move. Cassian physically restrained or manhandled her whenever she "acted out" after Mor deliberately provoked her. And when Nesta became too difficult to control, Rhysand simply used his money and influence to have her committed to a psychiatric facility for her "own good."
The cruelest betrayal, however, came from Cassian.
He was the man Nesta married. The man she genuinely believed would choose her when it mattered.
Instead, he chose his family.
Whenever she tried to voice her fears or express her growing paranoia, he dismissed her concerns as irrational, flew into angry outbursts whenever she questioned Rhysand's motives, and quietly sabotaged every promising career opportunity that came her way, ensuring she remained financially dependent on him and unable to leave.
So Nesta does the only thing she believes will finally set her free.
She meticulously stages her own disappearance and possible murder. She leaves behind a diary that paints an increasingly disturbing portrait of her marriage, one that naturally points investigators toward Cassian, whose track record makes him an obvious suspect. Every carefully written page peels back another layer of Rhysand's immaculate public image, exposing his corruption, coercion, abuse of power, financial crimes, and the countless ways his so-called Inner Circle has helped him silence, intimidate, and control anyone who threatens the empire he's built.
turnnoffyourmind
dailybridgerton
jimmyeatworldofficial
titsay
