“That child is mine. And so are you,” he commanded, his viper-green eyes pinning her in place.

Grace couldn’t believe that he—Carlos Benjamin, her new CEO and eight years her junior—was the father of her unborn baby.

“You can go back to that deadbeat you call a husband, or you can come with me and have everything.”

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For the last five years of her marriage, Grace Preston, 32, believed she was broken. She couldn’t have a child, and her deadbeat husband, Charles, never let her forget it, calling her useless while she worked tirelessly to fund his failed acting career. He didn’t just break her spirit; he shattered her trust by cheating on her with her own sister.

Heartbroken, Grace fled to her office late one night, seeking solace at the bottom of a bottle. She wasn’t alone. A beautiful, blond-haired man was there, nursing his own wounds.

He never told her his name, but he offered her a night of oblivion. Fueled by whiskey and a desperate need for revenge, she gave in to her darkest desires, pulling the willing stranger into her web.

In her drunken haze, she thought, “If my husband can have his fun, then so can I.”

She never worried about protection, convinced she was barren. Until a month later, when a positive pregnancy test trembled in her hands. Grace Preston, the ‘barren’ wife, was pregnant.

In a single night, the stranger gave her what Charles couldn’t in five years.
Now Carlos has made his claim, pulling her into a world of immense power and lethal secrets. Will Grace escape her toxic marriage only to be trapped in this captivating young billionaire’s golden cage? Or is trading one prison for another a mistake that will cost her more than just her heart?


Charles couldn't wrap his head around how Grace managed to pin all the blame on him, acting like he was the villain when she'd been the one fooling around with Tristan Benjamin first.


But whatever. Charles knew there was no changing Grace's stubborn mind, not right now anyway.


"She's one headstrong woman. That's what happens when you let women work and make their own cash. Makes them think they're hot shit, better than their own husbands!"


Rage boiled inside him, but he was powerless to do anything about Grace at the moment. That woman had enough money to survive without needing him for anything.


Charles glanced down and saw he'd completely trashed his only PlayStation 5 controller, which would run him about seventy dollars to replace.


He let out a heavy sigh and pulled up Amazon to order a new one, naturally charging it to Grace's credit card.


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