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.


"Wait, what did you just say?" The words tumbled out before I could stop them, my voice sharper than I intended. I stared at the manager across the conference table, certain I had misheard her completely.


"You heard me correctly," she replied, her tone as crisp as her perfectly pressed suit. "You're being transferred to Italy. One of our branch offices needs immediate staffing."


The silence that followed felt suffocating. I glanced at the suited men flanking her desk, their faces carved from stone, offering no hint of sympathy or understanding. They sat there like judges who had already delivered their verdict and expected me to accept it without question.


Italy. She actually expected me to abandon everything and fly across the world for a job I had started this morning.


My throat tightened as panic crept up my spine.


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