Chapter 4: To prove my worth

Vivian POV

The truth was, unlike Roseanne and all my friends, I didn’t come from a wealthy family. Quite the opposite, my mother, Sadie, always had to work hard as a maid to pay for my and my sister’s education expenses.

That’s why I always dreamed of working and becoming rich to repay my mother’s efforts. But things hadn’t been easy, they never were for someone from the outskirts.

Today, I was married to one of the richest men in the city, and I had finally been promoted from a simple secretary to creative director at Williams Jewels, an achievement only possible because of Ernest, since before that, I worked there for years, even with a design degree, but as a woman, they never listened to me.

But Ernest recognized my work, and now I could finally do what I loved most. Unfortunately, my mother was no longer here to see me succeed and enjoy my victory with her; she had passed away years ago, a victim of cancer, leaving a great void in my heart. But I kept fighting to make her proud