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.


"What's not going to work?" he asked, his voice carrying that infuriating casual tone, as if he hadn't just been attempting to charm his way into something he had absolutely no right to expect.


The sheer audacity nearly made me burst out laughing. This was textbook behavior from men like him - act completely innocent when called out, pretend they had no clue what they were doing wrong. But tonight I had nothing but time on my hands, far too much of it actually, and I was more than willing to break it down for him piece by piece until he got the message. If he wanted to play the clueless card, I'd gladly treat him like the child he was acting like.


Chapter 61 - Chapter 61 Golden Temptation