After Divorce, I Return As CEO
Harder-please,
against the man driving into her-Ivory's husband. Gadreel. His name d
mpers clawing at her composure. Five years of marriage. Five years of fighting for him-nursing him back from the edg
flashed, the text
our birthday g
see her stepsister's face to im
Did you really think your pathetic devotion meant anyth
to that? She hadn't expected love-their marriage had been a transaction, after a
line wasn'
ll be the one carrying his heir. We could've
th fury. She was the vill
l the night of their engagement party, when a tragic accident left Gadreel in a coma. His condition was so sev
yal. To keep the family, the father begged
pending years tirelessly nursing him back to health and enduring his ice-
audacity to blame Ivory for
-but all she got was a busy signal. Coward. She considered calling Gadreel instead, certain t
ady forgotten it. After long years of exile, she returned home only
was the one who nursed him for five
know who has my heart. You'll
this marriage could win her fathe
She was nothing but a placeholder,
o be anyone's sec
birthday cake she'd prepared-vanilla with buttercream roses, untouched.
dows across the empty room. Nev
she whispered. "And hap
ward, extinguishing the flame with a single breath-marking not just
h society that he was, Gadreel strode in. He flicked on the lig
the dining table. He took in the untouched feast she'd prepared,
lacial blue eyes said enough. But as he move
t, the chair screechi
oing to say a
ck with narrowed eyes.
rmth. Just the unspoken truth: their
her throat, forcing her voice steady.
over the candles, the cak
o
into her palm, the pain the only anchor against the dizziness
r turmoil, he turned away. "
ore from her befor
ensed, but he d
t be getting a gift from you today." She in
ificed everything for him-made his jaw tighten. No one had forced her into this. She'd gott
her," he s
hesitating. "Listen
e was st
versary gift to you."