I'm Back, Dear Ex-husband

Evelyn’s POV

Three years later.

I heaved a sigh as I adjusted my blazer before looking through my office window.

My shoulders relaxed as I gulped down a bottle of water, my mind reminiscing about the events of the past years.

Who would have thought the woman who was once scorned would turn out to be a successful businesswoman that even the men topping the charts bowed to?

It's mainly in novels that the woman who once hung on every word of her ex-husband would stand independently on her own in a short time. The past couple of years were tough, but slowly and steadily, I made it through it all with the help of Alex, my very own savior.

There was something I never talked about, my body had changed.

I didn’t get sick anymore, I barely slept, but never felt tired and my hearing was extremely strong.

Doctors called it “adrenal adaptation.” I stopped asking questions.

For two years, I've had dreams of running through a particular forest barefoot and very fast and it was always peaceful.

During my low days, the only thought that kept me going was the desire to see Daniel kneel before me, begging for mercy. The same mercy he never showed me.

Sometimes I wondered what would have become of me if Alex hadn’t helped me.

A soft thud against my leg pulled me back to the present.

"Mama, look! I drew a dragon," a sweet small voice chirped excitedly.

I looked down and my heart softened immediately.

Leo sat on the rug, holding up a paper he had smeared with crayon.

At three years old, he was the image of the man who had discarded us. He had the same thick, dark hair and the piercing blue eyes that used to make my breath hitch. The only difference was, instead of hate, Leo looked at me with absolute love and he was too observant for a toddler.

Sometimes I caught him staring and reacting at things before they made a sound.

"It’s beautiful, Leo," I whispered, brushing his cheek with my fingers softly.

Just then, my office door swung open without a knock and I didn’t need to look up to know who would dare pull such a stunt.

Alexander Reed.

He looked every bit the deadly but calm billionaire the media portrayed him to be.

He was the only one who knew the truth about my past and some of the changes I had undergone.

“Our jet is ready to move,” Alex said as he walked in and casually ruffled Leo’s hair. “The cars are waiting downstairs.”

“Dada, I drew a dragon!” Leo said to Alex, showing him the drawing.

“That’s my boy!” Alex said with a huge smile on his face.

I rubbed my sweaty palms together as my excitement increased at his words.

I couldn’t wait to make Daniel pay for everything he made me go through.

We were going back to the very place that brought me so much pain.

The place that broke and reshaped me into who I am now.

The Businesswoman of the Year Gala was being held in Manhattan, the very city where I had been thrown out like trash.

Now that my years of waiting had come to an end, I expected to feel fear, but instead, I felt a surge of anticipation go through me.

“I’ve waited so long for this moment, Alex,” I said, my voice dropping dangerously.

“I am tired of seeing him rot from a distance. I want to be in the very room where his world finally begins to crumble.”

Alex stepped close with an excited look on his face.

“You own 75% of his company bloodline, Evelyn. You don’t just walk into it, you own it. Daniel is a dead man walking, he just hasn’t realized it yet.”

“He will, soon,” I said with glee.

I couldn’t wait for him to look into my cold eyes and realize the anonymous holder who had been eating away at his company was no other person but me, the very woman he scorned for begging for his love.

The moment I had been craving for years was finally here, and man, was I ready to tear him to pieces.

He doesn’t know it yet, but at the time of our divorce, I already owned about 60 percent of his shares.

He turned a blind eye to everything, so slowly over the years I gradually increased my shares.

If I sold tonight, Daniel would wake up tomorrow to frozen accounts and lawsuits.

I let out a deep breath and tried to calm down.

"Leo stays with the nanny at the penthouse?" I asked.

"Always," Alexander promised. "He’s safe. And you? You have me."

Leo suddenly looked up at the window, before the car even turned the corner.

“Car coming,” he said casually, and two seconds later, headlights flashed past.

Alex and I exchanged a quiet look, neither of us commented.

Since our bags were already packed, we just grabbed our things and moved.

The scared little girl that Daniel once knew was long gone and now what was left was an ambitious and success-driven woman who could crush his company with just the slightest move of her fingers.

"Welcome home, Evelyn," Alexander whispered behind me as we alighted the cabin.

I smiled gently as I took a look around.

When we alighted the car, my assistant approached with her tablet in hand, ready to dive in for work.

“What do we have?”

“The gala is starting in about three hours, so you have just about enough time to get some rest before it starts,” she explained.

“Good. What else?”

“The nanny who is supposed to stay with Leo has reported having a fever and she’s in the hospital, so she won’t be able to watch him tonight.”

Shit.

I glanced at Leo who was playing with his toy, then at Alex who calmly waited for me to make a decision.

He seemed to understand the look in my eyes so he spoke up.

“Let him see, Evelyn. Let him see how far you’ve come while he was busy destroying himself.”

My thoughts ran wild but soon a dangerous smile appeared on my face.

“Fine,” I stated, my voice dripping with venom. “If we are going to burn him down, we might as well do it in the spotlight.”

Leo suddenly froze near the couch, with his head tilted. Then he waddled toward me with something pinched between his fingers.

“Mama… I found this.”

It was a small black rectangle card.

“Where did you get that, baby?”

He pointed toward my old travel bag. The one I hadn’t opened in years.

I took it from him, there was no number, just one name carved into the surface.

KAEL.

My lashes fluttered.

“… Kael, the umbrella man from before.”

How the hell did I forget he existed?