INICIAR SESIÓNVivienne Duarte had spent her youth supporting her husband, pouring all her time and dreams into his ambitions. Married for years and neglecting her own life and career, she believed everything would be fine as long as she remained the dutiful wife. But she was wrong. She wasn’t enough. When Vivienne discovered her husband, Marco, was cheating on her with his first love, the same woman who had once left him for another man, her world shattered. And when she confronted him, Marco didn’t even deny it; instead, he coldly suggested a divorce, breaking her heart into a thousand pieces. Devastated and numb, Vivienne drowned her sorrows at a bar, where a single reckless night led her into the arms of a stranger. And by morning, she vanished without a trace. Five years later, she returned no longer the fragile woman she once was, but a brilliant, mysterious doctor with a new name and a heart hardened by betrayal. She came back for revenge. Yet fate dealt her a cruel twist, because the stranger from that night turned out to be Marco’s uncle… the very man who had been searching for her ever since. Now, Vivienne vows to stay away from him at all costs, for she has something that belongs to him, something he must never find out. But her plans spiral into chaos when Marco reappears, claiming the same thing as his own. Can Vivienne outsmart them both in this dangerous game of love, power, and vengeance, or will she become the pawn in their deadly game of chess?
Ver másIt's a special day today.
Today is my wedding anniversary. I and my husband have been through a lot since we met. I've loved him for a long time and I was so happy that he loved me too. He wasn't successful then so my family tried to stop me from getting married to him, but I ignored them. I love Marco so much. I supported him and made sure he rose in status in his family. Now, he has become a top executive in the Blackwell Group. Since then, Marco has become very busy and is working hard. He comes back home very late and we've not had any intimate moments in about a year. I think the stress is affecting him too much and I miss the days and nights of our hot passion. So I'm going to surprise him today. What better day than our anniversary? I made my way to the executive level of the Blackwell Tower while adjusting my trench coat. Underneath it was a lace lingerie that I bought to make my husband lust after me. My body tingled with excitement at the thought of being ravaged by my husband. In the three years of our marriage, he had stopped having my time since about a year ago. It had been months since he even looked after me lustfully. But that was going to change today. I would remind him what he has been missing out on. The elevator dinged and I walked through the empty corridor and to the door of Marco's office. His secretary was absent so it was going to be just the two of us. My heart raced wildly. Thinking of how bold I was to wear just a lingerie and a coat. I pushed the door open and time seemed to slow down in front of me. Marco. My husband, was bent over his mahogany table. His pants were dropped to his ankles and he was moving his waist back and forth vigorously like a horny dog. Beneath him was a woman with her skirt hiked up to her waist, her legs wide open and locked behind him. Marco's head was buried in her chest, devouring her breasts like a beast. The moans of Marco and the woman resounded into my ears, making me dizzy. The cake in my hands slipped and splattered across the floor, staining the sparkling white tiles and my feet. "Marco??" I breathed out, my voice weak and broken. He jerked up in surprise, his eyes almost bulging out of their sockets. His cock slipped out of the woman's pussy with a plop. And the erection I hadn't seen in over a year pointed at me. The woman he was fucking also noticed me and frowned. That's when I recognised her. Belinda Cavalli. Marco's first love. The woman he had allegedly abandoned to marry me. She looked at me with disregard and annoyance because I interrupted their fun. She threw her hands around Marco's neck. "Vivienne! Why the fuck are you here?" Marco growled. Not bothering to pull up his pants. "Isn't today our wedding anniversary? I came to surprise you!" I replied with a cracked voice. "What makes you think I give a fuck about that?" He barked, a vein bulging on his head. My body shook. I couldn't understand Marco's behaviour. Anyone caught cheating wouldn't behave the way he was currently. "Marco, you're cheating on me? You swore you were no longer seeing this woman!" My chest tightened with betrayal and hot tears formed in my eyes. Marco scoffed. "You're the one who seduced me to marry you in the first place. Belinda has always been my lover." It was as though a hot knife was pushed into my heart slowly. I couldn't find the words. "Look at how disgusting you are." He grimaced. "You're always wanting to fuck anytime I see you but I can't get my dick to stand even when I see you naked." My body shivered. "How pathetic." Belinda spat. Her eyes filled with disdain and mockery. "Very pathetic... And ugly. " "Ugh!" "I wonder how I got seduced by you in the first place. You're unattractive. Belinda here makes me feel like a man since you're incapable of doing so." He said while grabbing her tits and squeezing them. She let out a sultry moan. Belinda threw a dirty smirk in my direction and I stumbled backwards into the door. With hot tears running down my face, I turned the door open and ran out of the building. "He's lying..." I said out aloud as I walked. "He can't be saying all those things about me. He's just stressed..." I tried to justify what I caught Marco doing and what he said. He knew I was coming so he did that to get my attention. Yes. That's what happened. Even if that was real, he'll come to his senses and ask for my forgiveness. And I'll forgive him. Because I love him so much. I kept mumbling things to myself while walking back home. I didn't even pay attention to the people who looked at me weirdly. By the time I arrived in our house, the house I lived with Marco, it was already dark. I saw Marco's car parked outside the house and I jumped. 'He's come to ask for forgiveness!' I was convinced and so I ran into the house, flinging the door open. The sight I saw again made me feel like I had been struck with a hammer to my chest. Marco was seated on the couch, shirtless. And Belinda was sitting on his legs straddling him and they were both embroiled in a hot kiss. As though they were about to start fucking again. They stopped upon noticing my entry and turned to look at me. Marco clicked his tongue. "Oh? I told you she'd come back." Belinda licked her lips in annoyance. "She's really stupid." I was frozen. The excitement that had been swarming up in my chest cooled sharply And the tears that dried gradually filled my eyes again. "Marco... W-What is going on?" I stifled a sob. He leaned and brought a piece of paper out of nowhere and then shoved it in my direction. "Sign this." He ordered indifferently. My heart skipped a beat. "What's that?" I moved to pick it up and struggled to read it. "It's divorce papers, you idiot." My legs lost strength and I collapsed on the floor.~ Lorenzo's POVI have planned very few things in my life with joy.Planning, in my experience, had always been a function of necessity rather than pleasure, the cold and structural work of someone who understood that outcomes required architecture and that architecture required precision and that precision left no room for the kind of looseness that joy introduced. I had planned business manoeuvres and legal strategies and the slow dismantling of family empires, and I had done all of it with the focused detachment of a man who understood that emotional investment in a plan was a liability rather than an asset.Planning the wedding was different.I noticed this about myself with the slightly bemused quality of a man encountering a version of himself he had not previously had occasion to meet. I sat across from Vivienne in my apartment three days after the car park with a notepad between us that had been her idea and which I had initially regarded as unnecessary, and I found myself wit
~ Lorenzo's POVShe looked at the ring on her finger for a long moment before she looked at me.I watched her do it. I had time, because she was not a woman who moved through significant moments without examining them, and I had learned that about her early and had stopped trying to rush her through the processing of things she needed to process. The ring sat on her finger in the pale afternoon light, a simple and substantial thing, not decorative in the excessive way that rings sometimes were, just a diamond of particular quality in a setting that I had chosen because it looked like something she might have chosen herself, clean-lined and without performance.Her face was doing several things at once.I could read most of them. The joy was present and clear, the specific brightness of it in her eyes that she was making no effort to contain, which was itself significant because Vivienne's default was containment and the absence of it meant something. But underneath the joy there was s
~ Vivienne's POVI stared at him."Marco," I said."Yes.""Marco killed Richard Blackwell.""Yes."I turned the information over in my mind the way you turned something fragile over, carefully and with the awareness that its full weight had not yet been felt. Marco, who had stood in that meeting room doorway with his prepared voice and his selected witnesses and his finger pointing at Lorenzo with the performance of a man who had arrived to discover something rather than a man who had arranged it. Marco, who had accused Lorenzo in a room that he had already been inside before Lorenzo arrived. Marco, whose motive I could construct in my sleep, the inheritance, the board, the slow and inexorable movement of the Blackwell group's power in a direction that was not his."How did you find out?" I asked.Lorenzo looked at me with the particular patience of someone waiting for a question to catch up with its own answer."Lorenzo.""Who do you think I am, Vivienne?" he said, not unkindly.I he
~ Vivienne's POVI stared at him."Marco," I said."Yes.""Marco killed Richard Blackwell.""Yes."I turned the information over in my mind the way you turned something fragile over, carefully and with the awareness that its full weight had not yet been felt. Marco, who had stood in that meeting room doorway with his prepared voice and his selected witnesses and his finger pointing at Lorenzo with the performance of a man who had arrived to discover something rather than a man who had arranged it. Marco, who had accused Lorenzo in a room that he had already been inside before Lorenzo arrived. Marco, whose motive I could construct in my sleep, the inheritance, the board, the slow and inexorable movement of the Blackwell group's power in a direction that was not his."How did you find out?" I asked.Lorenzo looked at me with the particular patience of someone waiting for a question to catch up with its own answer."Lorenzo.""Who do you think I am, Vivienne?" he said, not unkindly.I he
~ Vivienne's POVLorenzo took me to the small private waiting area at the end of the corridor outside the lab, a room that existed for exactly this kind of purpose, beige walls and upholstered chairs and a window that looked out onto the side of another building. I had walked past it hundreds of ti
~ Lorenzo's POVI stared at the ceiling of my bedroom, watching the shadows shift as dawn broke through the curtains. Another sleepless night. Another night spent thinking about her.Vivienne.Her name echoed in my mind like a prayer, like a curse, like something I couldn't escape no matter how har
~ Vivienne's POVFear consumed me entirely as I pressed harder on the accelerator, my car weaving through traffic at speeds that would have terrified me under normal circumstances. But these weren't normal circumstances. My son was in the hospital. My baby had collapsed. Nothing else mattered.The
~ Lorenzo's POVThe penthouse felt emptier than it ever had before.I stood in the exact spot where I'd watched Vivienne disappear into the elevator, my feet seemingly rooted to the marble floor. The doors had closed minutes ago—or maybe hours, time had lost all meaning—but I couldn't move.She was






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