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 morning sunlight streaming through my bedroom window felt like a blessing compared to yesterday's nightmare. No throbbing skull, no nausea churning in my stomach, no disorienting confusion about where I was or how I got there. Just the familiar comfort of my own space and the merciful absence of a hangover. My eyes opened easily, without that sharp pain that had greeted me the day before.


Eden had already rushed off to work, leaving behind only the faint scent of her coffee and the quiet that always followed her energetic departure. She possessed this boundless morning enthusiasm that I secretly wished I could bottle for myself. Today, however, I needed to summon my own energy. My new job awaited, and the butterflies in my stomach felt more like angry wasps.


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