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 kicked the door shut behind me and dropped my heels by the entrance, feeling every muscle in my body finally relax. What a day. My entire body screamed in protest - my feet throbbed, my spine felt twisted, and my shoulders carried knots that could anchor a ship. Yet underneath all that physical exhaustion, something else pulsed through me. Pure satisfaction.


Today had been the day I'd been preparing for. I'd finally come face to face with Camilla, that woman who dared to call herself Tom's wife. Without speaking the words directly, I'd made it crystal clear that I wasn't some disposable mistress he could tuck away in shadows. I was different. Special. I carried his child inside me, and that single fact shifted the entire balance of power into my hands.


Chapter 20 - Chapter 20 Golden Opportunity