The Woman in His Boardroom

POV: ISLA WINTERS (Present Day)The moment I walked into Jaxon Romano's boardroom, I made sure he wouldn't recognize me.Six years ago, I'd been the plain, broken girl with oversized glasses and a desperate need for his approval. The girl who'd loved him so completely, she'd lost herself in the process. The ghost-wife who'd coded his empire in the dead of night while he slept in another woman's bed.Today, I was Dr. Isla Vale, sleek, sharp, and worth more than his entire board combined."Gentlemen," I said, setting my Hermès briefcase on the polished mahogany table with a satisfying click. The sound echoed in the tension-thick silence. "Let's discuss why Apex Technologies is hemorrhaging money."Twelve pairs of eyes turned toward me. Eleven looked impressed, grateful, maybe even a little intimidated by the woman their headhunter had called "the best in the business."One pair, cold, calculating, impossibly blue looked right through me.Jaxon Romano didn't recognize his own wife.Perfe

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His Crumbling Empire

POV: JAXON ROMANO (Present Day)I stood at the windows of my office long after Dr. Vale left, staring at the Manhattan skyline without really seeing it.Have we met before?The question gnawed at me like a splinter I couldn't reach. Something about her eyes, dark, intelligent, burning with an intensity that felt almost... personal. The way she'd looked at me across that boardroom table hadn't been the typical deference consultants usually showed. It had been colder.Like she knew me.But that was impossible. I'd remember meeting someone like her. Dr. Isla Vale wasn't the type of woman a man forgot.My phone buzzed on the desk behind me. I ignored it. It would be Patricia with the meeting notes, or Gerald wanting to discuss Vale's demands, or another board member expressing concern about giving so much power to an outsider.They were right to be concerned. What she was asking for, CTO position, board seat, complete autonomy, it was unprecedented for a consultant. Any sane person would

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The Plan

POV: ISLA WINTERS (Present Day)"Mama, why do you look so pretty?"I glanced up from my laptop to find Nova standing in the doorway of my bedroom, clutching her stuffed rabbit. At three years old, my daughter was already developing the Romano instinct for reading people. Those ice-blue eyes, Jaxon's eyes missed nothing."I have a work dinner, baby," I said, smoothing down the black silk dress I'd chosen. Elegant but professional. The kind of dress that said I'm successful without screaming I'm trying too hard.The kind of dress I'd never owned when I was married to Jaxon."With the mean man?" Rowan appeared behind his sister, his dark hair, also Jaxon's sticking up in all directions from his nap."He's not a mean man, sweetheart. He's just..." I paused, searching for words that wouldn't confuse my three-year-olds. "He's someone Mama used to know. And now I'm helping him with work." I'd spent three years planning this revenge, engineering this return, perfecting every detail of my new

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All Chapters of The Wife He Forgot: Ashes to Empire: Chapter 1 - Chapter 3

The Woman in His Boardroom

His Crumbling Empire

The Plan