I was devoted to Tom Collin, a man whose ambition I once admired. I gave up my career, my future, my entire identity for him. I was the perfect wife while he built his empire. But when he reached the top, I became invisible.
Then I found him with her—his college ex, the woman who’d abandoned him when he had nothing. When I confronted him, the man I married vanished, replaced by a monster whose hands left bruises on my skin.
I was finally ready to leave. But I never got the chance. He left our five-year-old daughter, Joy, alone for his mistress. And in his absence, my baby was murdered.
I buried my child, and with her, the weak woman I used to be. In a haze of grief, I let a handsome stranger hold me for one night in Italy—a single moment of oblivion.
Five years later, I live for one purpose: Revenge. Tom Collin will pay for what he did. He has no idea the woman now standing before him. But my new boss… he might. The magnetic CEO of our rival company is the stranger from that night. And he doesn’t know he’s the father of my secret daughter.


The sharp zip of my suitcase echoed through the bedroom, a sound that felt like closing one life and opening another. I had been lying here for what felt like hours, staring at the ceiling while my mind churned with everything that was about to change. Eden had finally stopped hovering over me, convinced that I didn't need a doctor despite my earlier episode.


Thank God for that small victory. Her worry was sweet but suffocating, and right now I needed space to think. She knelt beside the bed now, my packed suitcase standing at attention next to her. Everything I owned that mattered for work was folded neatly inside, ready for whatever came next.


I pushed myself up slowly, my body still feeling the exhaustion from earlier, and walked to my nightstand where one precious thing waited for me. My fingers traced the edge of the picture frame before I picked it up.


Chapter 78 - Chapter 78 Blueprint for Vengeance