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Chapter 1 Cause His 'Her' is Back

My fifth wedding anniversary was the day I learned my husband had never stopped loving her. But I should have known much earlier. The first time I heard him whisper her name was during the first month of our marriage. I was standing in the kitchen with a glass of water while he was in our bedroom, packing for our honeymoon. I could hear the tremor in his voice. The soft, desperate way he said "Jovi" that made my stomach drop because I'd heard that exact tone before. When we were seventeen. When she was still his. I stood there for a long time, telling myself I'd misheard, that I was simply being paranoid. I convinced myself that now we were married, he would slowly move on and learn to look only at me. He never mentioned her name in front of me again, and I took that silence as proof that he was finally healing. He didn't. Even after we married, I could still see the sadness whenever he thought I wasn't looking, the quiet grief of a man who had lost the person he once believed was h

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Chapter 2 The Wronged Husband

My thumb hovered over the message for several seconds after I sent it.'Mr. Blackwood. Your wife is at my home with my husband. I thought you should know. — Sullivan.'The photograph was still attached beneath it, showing exactly what I had seen when I opened my bedroom door. Looking at it now made my stomach twist. A few minutes ago, I had wanted Vance to see it. I wanted him to feel the same shock that had gone through me when I realized Jovi was in my bed with Zane. I wanted him to know that while he had been looking for his wife, she had been with another man.But now that the message was actually there, I suddenly understood what would happen if he saw it. Their marriage would fall apart. His reputation would be dragged into this mess. Jovi would know that I had been the one who exposed her.And most importantly, I would no longer be able to pretend that I had nothing to do with what happened next.My thumb moved across the screen before I could change my mind. I opened the messag

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Chapter 3 The Collision

"Jovienne."Just her name. It hung there like a verdict.He took one step forward. "There you are."Jovi shrank. The confident, radiant woman I'd known since childhood seemed to disappear into herself. She looked from Vance's impassive face to mine, her eyes wide with a panic I'd never seen. This wasn't a drama she could control. She was looking at two facts she couldn't spin: her husband and her best friend, the wife of her lover emerging from a hotel room together at dawn."Vance," she whispered. Her voice broke.Zane found his voice first. A raw, protective anger tore out of him. He stepped slightly in front of Jovi-a protective gesture of a devoted lover shield her from danger, or anything that could hurt her. It hit me right into my chest.That had always been his position. Her shield, her protector.I'd always been the one standing beside him. Not behind him."What the hell is this, Nerissa?" His gaze burned into me, ignoring Vance entirely.Vance answered. Quiet. Calm. Deadly."

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Chapter 4 Give Us A Minute

Zane ran after me the moment I walked away. I heard his footsteps behind me, quick and uneven, and before I could reach the lobby, his hand closed around my arm and stopped me. His grip was tighter than usual, almost desperate, but I didn't turn around. I was too exhausted to argue with him, too numb to care whether he wanted to explain himself anymore.“Just let me drive you.”I looked down at his hand around my arm before slowly pulling my gaze back to the doors ahead. I didn't have the strength to fight him over something as insignificant as a car ride, so I let him lead me outside and toward the sedan parked near the entrance.The moment I opened the passenger door, the faint scent of Jovi's perfume reached me.It was light and floral, the same perfume she had worn for years, the kind of scent that had once seemed so familiar that I barely noticed it. Now it filled the car with an intimacy I didn't want to feel. It clung to the leather seats, to the air between us, to the space whe

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Chapter 5 Well Done

All conversation stopped when I walked into the boardroom.For a moment, I stood just inside the door, suddenly conscious of everything I had failed to fix before coming upstairs. My clothes were still the same ones I had worn the day before, wrinkled from sleeping in them, and there was probably still a trace of yesterday's makeup beneath my eyes no matter how many times I had wiped my face. Around the long conference table, several executives looked at me with varying degrees of surprise, and I could almost feel their judgment before I had said a word.I wished, briefly and irrationally, that I had taken five more minutes to make myself look presentable.Then Vance looked at me.His gaze moved over my appearance with the same cool precision he used when reviewing a report, and one of his eyebrows shifted almost imperceptibly. It wasn't difficult to understand what he was thinking. I looked nothing like the woman who should have been walking into a room full of senior executives to pr

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Chapter 6 The Proposal

Vance wasn't just talking about the merger.I looked at him for a moment, trying to understand what exactly he was offering me. The meeting with Harrington had changed something between us. An hour ago, I had walked into his office feeling like a woman who had lost control of her entire life. Now I was standing in front of Vance Blackwood with a multimillion-dollar deal moving forward because he had trusted me to handle it.“What do you want from me?”Vance turned away from the windows and faced me fully. “I want us to work together.”I waited for him to elaborate, but he didn't immediately do so. He simply held my gaze, as though he expected me to understand that he wasn't talking about another presentation or another project.“As a team,” he added.The words settled between us.I folded my arms loosely. “On what?”“On making sure neither of us becomes the person everyone feels sorry for.”I frowned.Vance walked toward his desk but didn't sit down. “Your husband made his choice. My w

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Chapter 7 The First Step

The Lexington Club was exactly the kind of place Vance would choose for our first public appearance together. Quiet, expensive, and discreet enough to make people feel private while giving everyone around them plenty to watch.I saw him near the entrance, speaking to the maître d' with his phone in one hand. He looked exactly as he had in the office, composed and perfectly in control, until he looked up and saw me.He stopped speaking.It lasted only a moment, but I noticed.His gaze moved over the black dress I had bought that afternoon before returning to my face. I had spent more time than usual on my makeup, not because I wanted to impress him, but because I had spent too many years looking exactly the way other people expected me to look. Tonight, I wanted to see someone different when I looked in the mirror.Vance seemed to be doing the same thing.His expression remained controlled, but something in his eyes changed before he looked away and collected himself."You came prepared

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Chapter 8 Too Late to Understand

I held the phone against my ear, listening to the silence on the other end.“I need to see you. Alone.”For years, those words would have been enough to make me stop whatever I was doing. If Jovi needed me, I came. If she wanted to talk, I listened. Even when we fought, even when I was hurt, I had always been the one who eventually gave in because being her best friend had somehow taught me that her needs were more important than my own.But tonight, standing beside Vance's car with the lights of the Lexington Club still visible behind me, I found myself wondering why I was supposed to keep doing that.“I don't think that's a good idea,” I said.There was a pause. “...What?”“I don't think we should meet.”“Nerissa, I just want to talk.”“You had plenty of opportunities to talk.”Her breathing changed slightly. “You're really going to do this?”I almost smiled at the question. There was something familiar about the way she said it, as though I had broken some rule by refusing to give h

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Chapter 9 The Promotion

237 unread messages.The newest ones appeared every second.Wait... isn't Ms. Sullivan married?Wasn't she seen with Mr. Blackwood tonight?Tell me this isn't about the promotion...I knew something was going on.Someone had attached a blurry photograph.Vance.Me.Laughing across the table.Someone had circled the distance between us in red.I stared at the picture.It had been taken from inside the restaurant.Not by accident.On purpose.I hadn't slept well that night. Every time I closed my eyes I saw the photograph.By morning it had spread farther than I wanted to imagine.The email went out at 9 AM.Subject: Leadership AnnouncementPlease join me in congratulating Nerissa Sullivan on her promotion to Vice President of Strategic Operations...My inbox exploded within minutes as if they had anticipated and waited for this moment. Congratulations from people who'd never spoken to me. Questions from colleagues. A calendar invite from HR for a "transition meeting."At 9:15, my phone

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Chapter 10 Crossing The Boundaries

I sat in the new chair. It was too big. The office was too quiet. Outside my window, the city spread out like a promise and a threat.My phone buzzed again.Zane: Why would Blackwood promote you NOW? What did you do to get this?The suspicion had curdled into a direct accusation, just as Jovi had intended. I could almost see her, feeding his fears, painting a picture of a transactional, sordid arrangement.I wrote back, my fingers steady.Me: My work earned it. Something you'd know if you'd ever paid attention. And tell Jovi her spy network is getting sloppy. The news took a whole 15 minutes to reach you.I put the phone away. I didn't wait for his reply, or for the panic that message would surely cause in both of them.I looked around the empty office. It was mine. I had earned it. It was also a new front in a war I hadn't known was being fought on so many levels.And somewhere in this building, a woman who had been my best friend was watching me through someone else's eyes, trying to

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