MARRIED MY BILLIONAIRE EX AFTER HIS FUNERAL
FIRST LIFE — TWO YEARS INTO THE MARRIAGE
Sophie sat alone at a charity gala, watching Adrian across the room, deep in conversation with a striking woman in a red dress — Vivian Chase, heir to a rival shipping empire, someone Sophie had always felt strangely uneasy around.
"They look comfortable together," a board member's wife murmured beside her, not unkindly, simply observing.
Sophie remembered forcing a smile, remembered the sharp twist of jealousy she'd never voiced out loud, remembered telling herself it meant nothing.
She never asked Adrian about it. She never asked him about anything.
Weeks later, she found out Vivian had proposed a business merger that would have doubled Cross Indust