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 moment I stepped through my front door, I yanked my tie loose with enough force to leave marks on my neck. My jacket hit the couch with a dull thud, but the weight pressing against my chest remained stubbornly in place. Every muscle in my body felt wound tight, like a spring ready to snap.


The drive home had passed in a haze of blurred streetlights and muffled sounds. Everything felt surreal, as if I was watching the world through thick glass. My mind kept circling back to the same devastating image that laptop screen, that damning headline, the truth I never saw coming.


Camilla Marvin. Former wife of Tom Collin.


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