Dolly
BLURB
"You want me gone? Fine."
Iridessa unfastened the blazer and let it drop to his office floor. Then the skirt. Then the heels. She stood in her silk innerwear and held his stare without flinching.
"Keep the rags, Slade. I am going back to a life where I do not have to pay for someone's love with my soul."
She walked out of the building barefoot. She never looked back.
For three years, Iridessa was the invisible woman behind Wilder Tech , the architect of the empire, the wife no one acknowledged, the developer no one credited. She endured a cold contract marriage, a family that treated her like a servant, and a husband who chose to believe every lie his first love told him. She stayed until the night he raised his hand against her. Then she left with nothing but her name and a secret she did not yet know she was carrying.
Five years later, the Wilder empire is on its knees. Their investors are gone, their debts have consumed them, and their only hope is a powerful executive from Sterling Group who holds everything they have left. When the boardroom doors open, it is not a man who walks in.
It is Iridessa. Colder, sharper, and carrying five years of quiet fury. She is now the woman they can never break .
The man who chose a lie over the woman who loved him must now face everything that choice cost him. But enemies are not done with them yet and the most dangerous one has been standing closest to her all along.
Can a man who never deserved her earn the right to try again? And will she still be willing by the time he finally figures out how?
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