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.


"Wait," she said suddenly, raising one finger like she needed me to stop talking. Her eyebrows pulled together as something clicked in her mind. I could see the wheels turning behind those sharp eyes of hers.


"You're telling me," she started, leaning closer to me, "that you and Tom went to the same college, and he pulled the same stunt with your work that he did with mine?"


Her voice mixed shock with curiosity, like she was still trying to believe what she was hearing.


I nodded, settling back in my chair with my arms crossed. "You mentioned meeting Tom in college, so yeah. Same school, same drama." A dry smile tugged at my lips. "Funny how the world works, isn't it?"


She let out a sharp breath and shook her head with that look people get when they realize they should have seen something coming all along.


Chapter 123 - Chapter 123 Truth About Tom