All Chapters of His Secretary, His Obsession : Chapter 1 - Chapter 3

EvelynThree weeks before my wedding, I still believed I was marrying the love of my life, I believed my best friend would stand beside me when I did it, and that the biggest problem in my life was convincing one hundred and eighty-seven wedding guests that no, they could not bring additional people to a reception that already cost more than my first car.I believed a lot of stupid things, but at six-fourteen that evening, I was totally oblivious and smiling at work.I sat behind my desk on the 48th floor of Vale Global headquarters, staring at the photograph Sienna had just sent me, it was my wedding dress.Or, more accurately, part of it, the boutique had finally finished altering the waist, and Sienna had apparently gone there without me to make sure they hadn't ruined it.SIENNA: SHE SURVIVED SURGERY.Another picture arrived, this one showed Sienna standing beside the dress with one hand dramatically pressed to her chest as if she was testing it out.SIENNA: Our baby is beautiful.

EvelynThe forty-eighth floor of Vale Global was almost completely dark when the elevator doors opened, for the first time in four years, I was grateful for it.But now there were no ringing phones, no assistants rushing between offices, no executives arguing over numbers they should have checked before sending them to Adrian.No one to look at my swollen eyes and ask if I was okay because I wasn't.I was three weeks away from my wedding, carrying an overnight bag filled with clothes I'd barely looked at while packing, and somewhere across the city, my fiancé was probably still standing in the apartment we'd shared for four years wondering how to explain that he'd been fucking my best friend for two.I stepped out of the elevator to see the reception area was deserted. Only the security lights remained on, leaving long shadows across the glass walls. Outside, Manhattan or what looked like the entire damn world from forty-eight floors up continued glowing as though mine hadn't just end