Betrayed by Love.

her heart racing. "You don't know the whole stor

g deeper into her heart. How did they know? Who would have the guts to send that? Her mind was n

so

on she'd kept hidden for nearly two decades. Her son. Her pride. Her

herself, then, but she had been desperate. Her father's kingdom demanded a strong heir, an unbreakable union. And Alex, youth and ambition in his eyes, had been appropriate. She

in was no

? One of the servants? Or... he

elling her daydream. She opened the message with a click, and her heart leapt at who was messag

been done. I regret having hurt you, for everything. I have been a coward and I have been mistaken. I cannot turn bac

e against the wall in rage, but another part of her sensed the tug of something long hidden deep wit

lmed her once more, clouding her mind with

t had tormented her for so man

er face in her hands. The weight of it was suffocating her. She had won Ale

he point of breakdown? Why didn't she understand that all of it was so delicate? I

Alex. If he knew, he would not be begging her to

k from the place she'd escaped to. "Mom?

e hadn't even realized were stre

thought I heard

red." She forced calm into her voice

he picked up her phone, her mind racing. The message ha

aya's new apartment, tension hovering in the ai

led. "Your wife came, attacked me, and now t

to you." He extended his hand

can you pr

the girl you call when ever

an instant, Alex held h

w. Am I just a mistake y

m. "You are not a mistake. I just n

ars to flow once more, but she slid away, curving i

scrolling through his texts until he rea

this way. We can make this work. I was wrong, I hurt

s heart poundi

nds later,

rything. And I promise you, if you simply slip away an

s of what she'd written knocking him to the ground. But he wasn

I'm begging you. Just let me mak

hich read, "Fine. We'll be talking abo

nother text flashed across t

y meeting. They're talking about your posi

. His empire, the fruits of his

His colleagues shot him with pinched-skinned ju

n loss it has inflicted on our company, the board wi

tight. "I founded this com

going to destroy it." The

We also have to consider the company bylaws. The board cannot

shareholder was Evelyn. Her inheritance, her fa

n. "Sir, Evelyn has been to

his voice steady.

dn't flinch. He had lost control of his f

h him. "Sir, I'm trying to control the narr

brewing inside him. "

ng, he texted again-Evelyn. "W

letely. But as he swung open the door to his car, the overwhel