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 sight of her standing there made ice flood my veins. My stomach clenched with such violence I thought I might be sick right there on the spot. Every nerve in my body screamed in protest, my skin prickling as though insects were crawling beneath it. My fingers began to shake at my sides, trembling with the fury that threatened to consume me whole. I pressed my nails deep into my palms, fighting the overwhelming urge to grab something heavy and smash it repeatedly into that perfectly smug face until my rage finally found peace.


Delia stood before me like a nightmare made flesh.


The other woman who had torn my life apart.


Chapter 43 - Chapter 43 Memorial Meltdown