로그인"Let's get a divorce," I said firmly. "Don't you dare," he said, his teeth literally grinding together. "Listen to me. As long as you are bound to me in this marriage, I have the final say. Only I get to decide when and if we end this. You don't just walk out and call the shots, Sierra. Not with me." One life-saving secret. Two sisters and a man. A marriage built on a lie. My feelings for Desmond Zimmerman started when we were kids and never really faded. But he gave his heart to my younger sister, Vivian, believing she was his savior. Then came the accident that paralyzed Vivian, and the world decided I was the monster who caused it. When Vivian vanished on their wedding day, Desmond didn't seek justice; he sought a substitute. He forced me into a marriage of convenience in bitter vows. Now, Vivian is back, walking perfectly and demanding her place at Desmond's side. She wants my husband, my home, and my total ruin. I filed for a divorce and walked out with nothing but a secret life growing inside me and the truth he was too blind to see. My escape led me deep into a dark underworld realm that shook my sanity, a place where names are traded, and shadows have teeth. How will Desmond react when he realizes he spent three years living with the woman who actually kept him alive? Can a man who treated his wife like a "substitute" ever truly be forgiven?
더 보기- DESMOND"I don't give a shit about the European logistics variance, Frank," I slammed my palm down on the glass conference table, making three water glasses rattle. "The board approved the Q2 maritime margins back in November. Why am I sitting in an emergency session on a Friday morning discussing a routine dock tariff?"Frank, the senior trustee for the Zimmerman estate funds, adjusted his gold-rimmed glasses and slid another three-inch-thick binder across the table toward me. "Because four institutional hedge funds just pooled twenty-two percent of the voting stock. They’re calling for a structural audit of the Wellington joint venture. If we don’t restructure the board seats by the closing bell, the stock is going to drop another eight points."I stared at the binder, my teeth grinding until my jaw throbbed.Six hours.I’d been trapped in this soundproofed cage on the top floor of the Zimmerman Tower for six miserable hours. My phone had been buzzing with alerts from the Daily Le
- SIERRA"The service chute," Aleena said finally, her keyboard clacking, dropping off completely. Her voice was suddenly dead serious. "Sierra, listen to me. I have checked the blueprint. Inside your guest room utility closet, behind the extra linens, there’s an old wall panel. It’s the building’s industrial laundry and trash elevator, the old mechanical lift from before the high-rise renovation."I heard her take a sharp breath, her fingers flying across the keys again."It runs on the building's core utility grid, not Desmond’s private automated system. The guards won't see it cycle on their monitors. I’m pulling up the maintenance mainframe right now using my tech division clearance. I can force a manual override from my terminal to unlock the gate on the eighty-floor junction. Give me ten seconds.""Ten seconds? Lee, I can literally hear one of the guards pacing right outside my penthouse door," I whispered, my heart racing wildly that it felt like it was going to break through.
- SIERRA"You have got to be shitting me," I whispered to the empty room.My phone was practically vibrating out of my hand. I stared at the screen, my thumb frozen over the refresh button on the Daily Ledger feed. There it was. A grainy, black-and-white sonogram, looking like some twisted piece of abstract art, right next to Desmond’s stupid, handsome face. The caption below it was a calculated psychological warfare: “Building the next Zimmerman legacy.”My stomach lurched again, but this time it had nothing to do with morning sickness. It was from the panic crashing over me.I scrambled off the bed and ran to the heavy drapes, yanking them back just an inch. Eighty stories below, the street looked like a disturbed anthill. The paparazzi hadn't just doubled; they’d brought reinforcement vans, satellite dishes, and a small army of telephoto lenses aimed straight up at our glass terrace. The main garage exit was completely choked out by a wall of black jackets and flashing bulbs.I ba
- DESMONDI sat at my mahogany desk for sixty minutes just staring at the skin on my palms.They were shaking. A hard, rhythmic tremor that I couldn't stop, no matter how hard I clenched my fists. Your touch. Every time you come near me, Desmond... it makes me sick.The words pulsed through my head over and over again. I’ve had board members scream in my face. I’ve had foreign logistics directors threaten to hijack my cargo lines in the middle of the Atlantic. I’ve had my own grandfather tell me I was a failure before I hit my twentieth birthday. None of it ever made my chest cave in like this.I leaned my elbows on the desk and buried my face in my hands, breathing in the dark silence of the study. The great Desmond Zimmerman was completely leveled by a five-foot-five girl in a kitchen floor covered in broken pottery.My private cell phone buzzed against the leather blotter. I didn't want to pick it up. I wanted to throw it through the glass window and watch it drop eighty stories
- SIERRAThe glowing numbers on my laptop screen read 3:14 AM.My eyes felt like someone had rubbed sandpaper under the lids, but I couldn't stop. I was deep in the zone, tweaking the colour palette for the Solis Botanicals brand deck, shifting it from that healthcare grey to a warm, rich terracott
- DESMONDThe double glass doors to my office didn't even click all the way open before Vivian strolled in like she owned the goddamn building.She was wearing this ridiculous white power suit, her heels tapped against the hardwood floor with an annoyingly steady beat that made my jaw lock instantl
- DESMOND"Randy," I barked the second the line connected, not even giving him a chance to breathe. "Damn it! What the fuck did you dump on the wire this morning? I told you to use the specific copy we approved last night... No, don't tell me it was a system error! Look at the ticker! Who gave them
- SIERRAThe sun hadn’t even cleared the skyline when I gave up on sleep. My eyes felt like the sand had rubbed them, and my jaw ached from clenching my teeth all night. There is no divorce. His stupid, arrogant voice kept looping in my head, making my stomach churn harder than the morning sicknes












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