Jilted Wife, Billionaire's Daughter Rises

ing his pregnant mistress, Justine, at a conference for the company I

s hospital and cruelly told her everything-all the affairs, all

service with a brass band, showeri

l!" Dalton yelled, shielding her a

lazing. "Don't you dare touch

e, and I braced for the impact

blow nev

powerful voice cu

advise tha

llionaire father

pte

Gibs

liced through the air. It was the tenth time this year I' d been

h conference to hear. He draped an arm around Justine Farley, his VP of Marketing, wh

could feel every ey

nting with malicious satisfaction. She was holding a mock-up of the new produc

nerves. "She does work hard. But someone has to ke

he real architect of Elysian Dynamics. They also

didn't reach my eyes. "Indeed, Dalton. S

hat only Dalton seemed to catch. His smil

Get some rest. Justine and I can handle the rest of the presenta

than any insult. This was

I turned, my heels clicking loudly on the

oint. My mother' s medical bills had been

cross the screen. A single, encrypted mess

partment, Dalton was already there. He sat on the so

a forced cheerfulness in his

a necklace. A delicate silver chain

. It was the same necklace he' d given his last

flat. My other hand reached into my brief

ed. "Wha

e table. It landed with a

at the documents, then back at me, a flic

is voice was low, danger

ng, Dalton?" I asked, my

he necklace jump. "After everything? After

htly. "After I built your empire, sacrificed my career, my sanity, to keep

to me like that! You wouldn't be anything without me!

ip anymore, Dalton. She's recovering. Better than ever, in fa

pers, Dalton

k you can just walk away? You think

etting half. You'll be getting what I decide

ipulative bitch! You think I don't know what you're doing? Setting

eady, piercing his. "Let go of

ing to do? Tell your rich daddy? The one who aband

w exactly where to strike

And your mother? She'll be back in that hospital bed faster than you can

he heart pendant, then at him. He truly believed he had

r over me, Dalton?" I asked, a dangerous calm sett

single one, Blake.

ou clearly haven't been reading carefully enough, Dalt