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.


A heavy exhale escaped my lips as I pressed both palms against my skull, fingers digging into the tension that had been building there for hours. My mind was a whirlwind of scattered thoughts, each one more unsettling than the last.


"I had no idea about any of that," I admitted, my voice coming out harsher than I meant it to. "But that's not what's eating at me right now."


Owen's expression sharpened, his gaze studying my face with the intensity of someone who knew me well enough to recognize when something was seriously wrong. "So what's really bothering you?"


There it was. The question I'd been avoiding asking myself for the better part of the day.


I found myself staring at the carpet beneath my feet, as if the answer might somehow be hidden in its weave. I couldn't afford to let my imagination run wild when I didn't have concrete evidence to back up my suspicions.


Chapter 127 - Chapter 127 Shocking Possibility