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.


My eyes locked onto the woman standing next to Camilla, and irritation flared through me instantly. Of course it had to be her.


Eden. Camilla's insufferable best friend who never knew when to mind her own business.


From day one, something about her had rubbed me wrong. She clung to our family like a leech, inserting herself into every situation where she didn't belong. The woman had no family of her own, so she latched onto ours with desperate determination. Now here she was again, pushing into a conversation that had nothing to do with her.


"Should I even bother listening to anything you have to say?" I asked, my voice dripping with disdain.


Eden squared her shoulders, meeting my hostile glare without flinching. The defiance in her eyes only made my blood pressure spike higher.


Chapter 45 - Chapter 45 All Eyes on Me