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 pressed my fingers against the bridge of my nose and let out a quiet breath. The timing couldn't have been worse. Just when the confrontation between Camilla and Tom had reached its peak, Eden and Elsie walked through the front door. The atmosphere in the room shifted instantly from pure anger to something more complex. Shock radiated through the space like ripples in still water.


Tom's head snapped toward Camilla, his face draining of color as his eyes locked onto the small girl beside Eden. His mouth fell open slightly, as if his brain was struggling to process what he was seeing. The silence stretched between them, heavy and suffocating.


"She's your daughter?" The words tumbled from his lips, raw with disbelief and something deeper. Pain, maybe. Or betrayal.


A heartbeat passed before his voice turned sharp as broken glass. "Our daughter?"


Chapter 153 - Chapter 153 Grip of Rage