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 Delia appeared, I knew with dreadful certainty that he would be here too. Some desperate part of me had hoped otherwise, but deep down, I understood the inevitable truth. And there he stood before me now, after five endless years, the man who had once been my husband, the man who had shattered everything I held sacred.


Seeing him felt like lightning splitting through a peaceful sky. My chest constricted, not from yearning or sorrow, but from the searing memory of his treachery. The past crashed over me in waves, his betrayal of Joy, the callous way he had abandoned everything as though it meant nothing at all.


"What are the odds we would cross paths here," Tom remarked casually, raising his champagne flute before taking a deliberate sip.


His voice remained unchanged, that same controlled arrogance, that familiar condescension that once made me question my own worth.


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