All Chapters of Rise Of The Billionaire’s Secretary: Chapter 1 - Chapter 5

Sienna POVMy face lit up with a warm smile as I smoothed down the front of my gown, one last time, in the mirror of the private lounge. Tonight was Apex Industries’ annual recognition gala, and downstairs, hundreds of guests, partners, and board members were gathered beneath crystal chandeliers to celebrate the company’s most successful year yet.But for me, tonight meant something far bigger than quarterly numbers.I could feel butterflies in my tummy, my heart racing as I thought about the moment Damian would call me up to the stage.Tonight, he’d promised, he would finally make us official — no longer the quiet arrangement hidden from company gossip, but his fiancée, standing beside him in front of everyone who mattered to him.My hands drifted instinctively to my belly with a smile tugged at my lips. I couldn’t wait to break the news to him. He would be so happy to know he would soon be a fatherClimbing down the stairs, I could spot Damian surrounded by board members, their bus

Sienna POVLong after Marcus disappeared back into the party, I stayed on the terrace, turning his words over in my mind. Someone who understands infrastructure, regulation, timing. Could you be that someone?Three years. That’s how long I’d poured myself into Apex Industries…sleepless nights over spreadsheets that weren’t mine to claim, ideas that built an empire under Damian’s name while I stayed folded neatly into the background as ‘the secretary,’ thinking I was helping to build an empire for us and our kids.I was so caught up in the love thing that I failed to realise I was only a pawn all along.His words echoed again in my mind.“I’m a public figure, Sienna. I wouldn’t want you to tarnish my image by telling everyone we were once sleeping with each other.”My jaw tightened, my stomach twisting into knots.Three years ago, Apex Industries couldn’t even make it out of the shores of Washington.All of a sudden, he’s a public figure, and we were only having sex.I was so stupid.

Sienna POVFive years later…I sat at my desk on the top floor of Voss-Rock Renewables. No, that wasn’t right anymore. It was now Solvane Energy. We rebranded two years ago, right after our valuation crossed the ten-billion mark. Now, sitting at twenty-five billion, “Solvane” was printed across half the skylines in southern Europe, our name synonymous with the very grid infrastructure Marcus had once described to me on a rooftop as “the kind of thing that takes years to turn in profits.”It had taken three, but was never an easy task. It was a journey that was nothing short of a roller coaster. I still remember days I would work round the clock. Investors who laughed me out of meetings the moment they realized how inexperienced I was. Deals that collapsed the week before signings, more times than I could count. I’d failed enough times to lose track of the failures and kept going anyway.All because I refused to give my son, Edson, a life below what I promised him on that hospita