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.


Sleep abandoned me hours before dawn could steal through my bedroom curtains.


My eyes snapped open at 5:39 a.m., my internal clock refusing to grant me even another minute of rest. The digital numbers on my nightstand glowed accusingly in the dim light. Perhaps getting up this early was excessive, but I refused to leave anything to chance today.


This departure would reshape everything about my existence. Missing it wasn't an option.


Some distant part of me recognized an unfamiliar sensation stirring beneath my ribs. Anticipation. Almost like hunger for what waited ahead. The chance to flee from the wreckage of my past, from the betrayals that still left jagged wounds across my heart, from the suffocating weight of everything that had gone wrong here.


Chapter 79 - Chapter 79 Above the Clouds