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."