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.


"Perhaps we should return to the living room," Camilla suggested, her words cutting through the quiet tension that had settled between us. Her voice drew me back from my wandering thoughts, anchoring me to the present moment. I nodded briefly and gestured for her to lead the way, though Elsie was already in motion, her small feet creating soft sounds against the floor as she walked ahead of both of us. Camilla moved to follow our daughter, while I remained behind them, my eyes shifting between their figures. Something about seeing them together like this awakened feelings in me that I struggled to define.


Chapter 135 - Chapter 135 Trust Takes Time