LOGINMaddie's POVI genuinely hoped I hadn't burned his face off. I paced my office, glancing at the door every few seconds and praying Barbara wouldn't come back with news that I actually hurt him. Thank God she stayed behind to check on him. I know I hate him, but not enough to burn his face off. I wouldn't even do that to my business rivals.When I heard my door open, I quickly stopped pacing and straightened up, trying to look nonchalant as I cleared my throat."What the hell was that?" Barbara asked as she walked in. "that was just downright mean.""I panicked, okay? I didn't mean for it to get that way, but he deserved it.""No one deserves to have hot coffee poured all over them," Barbara said. I could tell she was mad, even though her voice remained so calm, which somehow made it harder to defend myself."I know that, I just..." I let out a breath, rubbing my forehead as I struggled to explain what had gotten into me. "I don't know.”Barbara sucked in a breath before taking my hand
Damon's POV"Get your ass out of my room!" I cursed, throwing a pillow at Kevin, which landed right in his face."Would you please calm down?" he asked, completely unbothered as he went through my watch collection. "I didn't know you guys were going to be on that side of the garden. Barbara just ran in that direction."He finally picked out a watch and held it up to his wrist."Besides, Barbara never told her about us in the entire year we've been together because she didn't want to hurt her friend, and she also didn't know we were friends."He put on the watch and glanced at me. "And don't you have more important things to worry about right now?"I heaved a sigh because, unfortunately, he wasn't wrong.I had a wife, a marriage I couldn't explain to Madelyn, and now she found out about Barbara and Kevin in the worst possible way. To be honest I didn't want her to find out about my marriage like this. Hell, I didn't want her to find out at all, at least not yet.I would have told her a
Doll?“Damon?”The question slipped out before I could stop it.I didn't need an answer because I would know those eyes anywhere.I swallowed down on nothing before trying to take a step back, but his arm wrapped around my waist and pulled me flush against him."Damon, let me go."I shoved at his chest and tried to push him away, but it was like struggling with a wall. After a few seconds, I gave up and dropped my hands.He reached up with his free hand and pulled off the mask.Those blue eyes met mine. For a second, all I could do was stare, Damon has a lot of amazing qualities but his eyes have always been one of my weaknesses, seven years later and it still hasn't changed.The corner of his mouth lifted, and judging by that smug smile, he knew exactly what he did to me."I missed you, Baby Doll.""Don't call me that. Shouldn't you be at home with..." I trailed off when it finally hit me. My stomach twisted and I let out a laugh that sounded nothing like amusement. "Oh, don't tell m
Madelyn"The best way to forget an ex who brutally dumped you, resurfaces after seven years claiming to want you back, only for you to find out he wanted to make you a mistress, is by getting under another guy." Barbara said, sounding far too pleased with herself considering she tried bringing me here last year."How were you able to score tickets for this anyway?" I asked, raising a brow at her as we drove through the gates once security was done searching the trunk of the carThe estate was ridiculously hugeAcres upon acres of land stretched out around us, and even from a distance it screamed money. From the little I knew, this event was for the elites. The one percent of the one percent, my family might be wealthy but this is very different."Umm..." Barbara glanced at me. " Well um ..I love your hair by the way.""Thank..." The word died in my throat when I realized what she just did“Don't think you can change ….” I continued as she pulled into the driveway “ the tickets cost
MadelynMy heart dropped.Wife?Wife?By definition, a wife was a life partner. Someone who belonged to him. Someone who bore his last name, I sucked in a deep breath, He has a wife.The word seemed to echo inside my head as my chest tightened.How could he...?No.He wouldn't do that.He couldn't.I just stared at him, waiting for him to laugh, to tell the player he was talking nonsense, to say something that would make this make sense, but all I could hear was the blood rushing in my ears as my fingers curled into my palms."Why the hell is she here, we're supposed to see at the hotel anyways..." Damon started, confirming what I refuse to call my biggest nightmare, and before I could even process it, the words were already out my mouth"Let me go." I said cutting him off"Maddie, let me explain...""Shut up."I clenched my fists to stop my hands from shaking and I hated how blurry my vision was getting."And let me go or I'll scream," I said, keeping my voice firm even though my voi
Madelyn’s POV I can't fire him. I can't even dream of it. I tossed Damon's contract to the side with a groan. His buyout was ridiculously expensive, and the major reason I couldn't fire him was because we were broke. My eyes drifted back to the finance folder sitting open on my desk, the pages covered in so much red ink it was genuinely irritating… we were bleeding money. There was money coming in, sure, but nowhere near what this company should have. I rubbed a hand over my face and stared at the numbers again, hoping they'd magically change if I looked long enough. They didn't. My gaze dropped to the employee list. It's not what I wanted to do on my first week, but at least three people had to go if we were going to stay comfortable for a while. The thought made my stomach turn. My office door opened before I could think about it any longer, and Barbara walked in. "Okay, I still find it very weird that your dad took his secretary," she said, dropping off more files "We







