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.


I was finally free from Camilla. After all those years trapped in a marriage that suffocated me from day one, I had broken those chains. That mistake was behind me now.


But fixing one problem only revealed how many others were waiting in the shadows. Like the disaster spread across my desk right now.


I had memorized every number on these reports. Every red mark. Every downward arrow that felt like a knife twisting in my gut. The graphs told the same brutal story no matter how long I stared at them.


It felt like watching someone you love slip away while you stood there helpless. I built this place with my bare hands. Every late night. Every missed meal. Every sacrifice that cost me pieces of myself. Now it was crumbling, and I could barely breathe through the pain of it.


Chapter 77 - Chapter 77 The Hunt Begins