My Husband and First Love Destroyed My Family, So I Destroyed ThemChapter 1
To please his precious moonlight, Selene Blanc, my fiancé Grayson Delgado publicly exposed the core jewelry design patents my mother had poured half her life into — right in the middle of our wedding.
Overnight, the jewelry brand my mother had built from nothing collapsed into bankruptcy. She couldn't withstand the devastating blow. A sudden heart attack took her from me forever.
I was drowning in despair, consumed by nothing but the need to destroy Grayson, when Samuel Rowe — the boy I'd grown up with, now the godfather of Sicily's jewelry empire — flew back from overseas with an army of men.
He mobilized his entire family's power to help me salvage what was left of the brand. He made me a solemn promise: he would find whoever was truly behind the patent leak and make them pay for what they'd done to my mother.
I believed him. After the only light in my world had been snuffed out, he became the last thing keeping me afloat.
After my mother's funeral, I tore up my engagement to Grayson with my own hands and married the man who had held me steady through my darkest hour.
Five years. More than eighteen hundred days and nights. He sheltered me under his wing, gave me the deepest tenderness and the safest harbor. I thought I had finally walked out of the darkness and into a new life. But one evening, five years later, at the end of a corridor in a private club, I overheard a conversation between Grayson and Samuel.
"Every time Lois Simmons sees me, she looks like she wants to tear me apart. She's so convinced I'm the one who destroyed her mother, destroyed everything she had."
"But tell me — if that stupid woman ever found out the person who actually leaked her mother's patents was the husband holding her in his arms every night, do you think she'd lose her mind on the spot?"
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My hand froze an inch from the door handle. The blood in my veins turned to ice.
Grayson's mocking voice kept going, each word a poisoned blade driving straight into my skull: