Choosing The Assistant Over The Ruthless CEO

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g me it was to secure assets for our unborn children. I tru

, I watched him announce his engage

gned. It wasn't a trust fund. It was

se and the stocks. And the box for "no

xt morning. I stared at a preg

ad just tricked me into a divorce and called

ld my life, Craig didn't let me go.

our marriage, delusional enough to believe we could

ld die in that

d through the wall,

barely noticed for five years,

wreckage, leaving Craig behind, I

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hit the surface. I stood anchored in the center of the corporate ballroom, watching my husband, Craig, bask in

, a wet, rhythmic thunder e

boomed above the din. "Th

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d the sacrifices. I remembered turning down the Chimera Project, the biggest software a

r, Dessie," Craig had whispered only an

nvestment papers," he'd called them. Essential for securing our

le line of fine print. Why would I? I t

s walked by. I recog

she murmured as she passed, her voice pitched l

" I replied, the

ouldn't decipher. Pity?

h the predatory grace of a shark in a tank of guppies. H

ad been painted onto her skin. I recognized her instantly: Cha

whispering some

a busine

lower back. It was a touch I knew inti

as if I were in an elev

them, my legs f

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action too quickly. His eyes darted

clipped. "I was just discussi

mall, cruel twisti

purred. "Somet

really, Crai

bow. His fingers dug into the soft flesh of

"I left them

m. "Go home, Dessie. I have more

his offi

the roar of a distant ocean. I saw the fold

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ion of M

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. The air in the ro

ture was there. The ink was still fr

ate was y

ny. I kept the car. He kept the

y. We didn't even have children, yet the b

. It had to b

I felt a laugh bubbling up in my

the eye, told me he loved me, and han

ce was slightly ajar

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said. He sounded bored. "She t

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e letters seemed to crawl

A notification from the comp

onal Director. Sources say a merger

ice of light from the hallway cut acro

ed like

wanted to stab the pape

s shook so violently that I dropped the pen. It rolled across th

nt out. I sat in the darkness, holding the