The Rise Of The Betrayed Wife
She was damaged goods, a mute girl with no real prospects who should have been grateful that someone from a family like mine was willing to take her on.
I'd tolerated her silence, her awkwardness, the way she could never satisfy me properly because she couldn't make a sound.
And this was how she repaid me. By running off to another man, a better man, a richer man, without even having the decency to break our engagement privately first.
I pulled up Callum Thorne's profile on my other monitor, reading through his biography with growing resentment. Self-made billionaire, built his company from nothing, one of the youngest CEOs to reach that level of success.