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.


"You can't blame me for feeling this way, Eden. You weren't there when he said those horrible things to me."


The words tasted bitter as they left my mouth. "He stared right into my eyes and made me feel worthless. Told me I was nothing on my own, that everything I had was only because he allowed it."


Heat crawled up my throat as the memories resurfaced. "It was like staring at a complete stranger instead of the man I married," I said, my voice trembling. "After all the years I stood by him, everything I gave up for our marriage... how am I supposed to ignore all of that and just pick up this phone? What would that make me sound like, Eden? Desperate and weak."


Chapter 27 - Chapter 27 His Terms