She kisses her husband hello on their first anniversary and smells another woman’s perfume on his collar.The scent belongs to his assistant.The one she hired, trained, and trusted like family.
Her husband works late every night. There is a condom wrapper in his wallet, and he has not reached for her in months.When she asks, he calls her paranoid and says someone has to keep this family afloat.
Then the secretary turns up pregnant. In front of everyone they know, her husband swears the baby is his and lets the whole world call Adriana the wife who failed.
But the secretary already has a boyfriend. His name is Knox. He is rich, charming, and the one man her husband hates most.
He is also the first man who ever truly saw her.
In public, they fake date and look madly in love. In private, they burn the cheaters to the ground.
It is supposed to be temporary. But the other guy is starting to feel like the right guy.
And Adriana holds one last secret, the kind that proves the baby was never his.
For a whole year she made herself small to keep her cheating husband. Now she is choosing herself.
Let him beg. He is far too late.
