Helplessly in love

His Trophy Wife, The Apex Predator

Eydie Pfefferle

My husband of three years, Arthur Vanderbilt, came home smelling of his mistress's perfume and threw divorce papers on our marble kitchen island. He demanded I sign away all rights to our assets for a five-million-dollar "severance," calling me a leech his family picked up from the suburbs to solve a temporary PR crisis. When I refused and demanded my four percent equity in the Vanderbilt Group, he and his mistress, Serena, launched a vicious smear campaign. They planted false stories on Wall Street forums, accusing me of laundering money for an Eastern European crime syndicate. They tried to force my hand with a check for five hundred million, which I tore up and threw in his face. To them, I was just a trophy wife they could easily discard. They had no idea that the "leech" they so despised was the anonymous investor who had secretly bailed out their entire company three years ago, saving them from bankruptcy. Their final move was to hire an actress to publicly accuse me of fraud in the lobby of the most powerful law firm in Manhattan. They didn't realize I was there to retain the firm's most ruthless lawyer. After security threw them out, I looked my replacement in the eye and made her a promise. "Prepare for an FBI probe into perjury and corporate defamation."

Modern Revenge

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(Aubrey's pov)

"Rey, wake up. "

I heard a voice whispering into my ear. I knew who the voice belonged to." Isla"

My best friend.

"What do you want?" I asked grumpily.

"Are you serious?, still on bed by 7am" She yelled and her voice was loud enough to make my sleep disappear.

"What?, 7.am, f**k" I pushed her away and ran into the bathroom.

7.00 in the morning. Like what was I thinking?, sleeping so late.

I wore my snickers and combed my long hair not forgetting to put on my face cap. As I walked out of my small room, the aroma of mom's tossed bread filled the air. Too bad, I wasn't going to stay for breakfast.

"Mom, I'm off" I shouted.

"Stay for breakfast, hun"

"I'll come by, later in the day"

With that, I scurried off to my bike.

I'm Aubrey Cox. My mom's name is Rena Cox and i'm the only child. Well, f**k dad. I don't wanna talk about him. My best friend's name is Isla Gomez.

I don't have any particular job, I do many jobs depending on my time.

Here are my daily routine.

From 6 to 9 am, i work for Mrs maria at her home, preparing the kids for school and doing some house chores. From 10am to 1pm, i work at Mason 's restaurant. I just cook and wash the dishes. At 2 to 5pm, I work at Mr grumpy 's gallery shop.

At 6, i help mom at her small restaurant down the street. I'm a very busy person.

Apart from working so hard, i have a part time classes.

"Slow down, Rey" Isla warns.

"I'm late and I'm gonna loose my pay today if I don't get on .... "

I quietly shut my mouth up and continued riding.

I knew it was useless talking to her at this point.

In not less than 20 minutes, I parked my ride behind her house and jumped the stairs to Mrs Maria 's door. I knocked lightly on her door and Mrs Maria opened almost immediately.

"You came late, Aubrey" She started.

"I'm so sorry, Mrs Maria. I overslept and..."

"Cut the crap and get to work"

with that being said, she left leaving i and Isla alone.

"Bye Rey " I said and she smiled before walking up the street.

(Rowan's POV)

My eyes were glued on my laptop when my best friend came in.

"Manny, you're not going for lunch, are you?" He asked as if he doesn't know the answer to it.

I kept quiet still working on some documents.

"Your mom called me"

I rolled my eyes.

"I know, she calls everyday" I answered nonchalantly.