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.


"Seriously, why are you even paying attention to some random guy?" Eden demanded, raising her voice above the thundering music that seemed to pulse through every bone in my body. The bass line hit so deep I could feel it reverberating in my ribcage, but my attention remained fixed on that sleek black door where the stranger had vanished moments before.


"Did you miss what just happened?" I snapped back, my gaze still burning a hole in the VIP entrance. "The guy practically bulldozed right through me and didn't even have the decency to acknowledge it."


Chapter 59 - Chapter 59 Red Shirt Returns