Chapter 1

I was completely stunned the moment my girlfriend, Rachel Winters, announced that she was getting engaged to Bryon Parson.

I yelled at her hysterically.

"Why won't you speak the truth? He was the one who offended that widow, which was why he was forced to sleep with her in the first place! But you drugged me and forced me to take his place!"

Hundreds of cameras immediately pointed toward me as if I was just a circus monkey who'd gone mad.

Rachel just looked at me calmly and said, "Bullshit. What proof do you have?"

That was all it took to silence me.

The people around me wouldn't stop snickering.

I remember how I had once been falsely accused of being a Peeping Tom in the women's bathroom back when I was still in college. The student body then forced me to publicly apologize onstage so that I would be despised by the entire college.

However, Rachel, the college belle, was the only one who believed me when I said I wasn't the one who did it and stood up for my innocence. We had only met each other twice before that.

She had been my salvation since then.

I got madly infatuated with her and pursued her for four years after that.

Now, the same scene was happening all over again, but things were heading in a completely different direction this time.

The reporters immediately shoved their microphones into my face as they yelled questions at me.

"How could you even think of having a one-night-stand with an 80-year-old widow when you already have a girlfriend as beautiful as Ms. Winters?"

"Did you just have a change in taste? Or are you really a sick psychopath after all, Corey Dalton?"

"How could you even bear to prey on an 80-year-old widow like that? She could already be your grandmother at her age!"

They kept repeating their malicious questions at me, forcing me to answer.

I looked at Rachel.

She just looked back at me with a calm expression on her face, watching the drama unfold like she was a complete outsider.

"I am the victim!" I exclaimed, gritting my teeth in anger.

Then, I fled the scene amidst the overwhelming ridicule, returning to the office with a livid expression on my face.

I thought of asking the company's deputy CEO, Steven Armstrong, to clear things up for me. He and I were good buddies who went way back, after all. He once promised me that he would always take my side no matter what happened, and I could always count on him.

Just as I'd stepped into the company, however, Bryon immediately came over to me, fell to his knees, and grabbed hold of my legs as he wept and groveled.

"I'm sorry, Corey! You can yell at me or hit me if you want to, but please don't blame it on Rach! It's all my fault! Please, can't you just forgive me?"

He wouldn't stop groveling and sobbing as he apologized to me on his knees.

I froze at once.

However, I soon caught the malicious glint in his eyes.

Before I could react, I suddenly heard Rachel's furious voice behind me.

"Corey Dalton! How could you be so vicious and wicked? Is this all you know, bullying the weak? You're such a coward in public, but yet, you dare to bully an intern like Bryon as soon as you're behind closed doors!"