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.


Some women clearly never learned basic manners. The encounter from this morning still burned in my memory like acid on my skin. She had not only destroyed my phone but had managed to poison what should have been a perfectly good start to my day. I exhaled slowly, trying to shake off the lingering irritation, though I knew that girl's smug face would haunt me for hours. The sting from her deliberate slap still pulsed through my fingertips, and that calculated shoulder check replayed in my mind like a broken record. If I had caught her name tag, maybe I could have avoided the whole mess entirely.


I forced myself to refocus as I approached the office, knowing I needed every ounce of concentration for what lay ahead.


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