The mistress smiled at me like she had already taken my marriage, my home, and my name. My mother-in-law leaned close and whispered, “Crawl into the gutter where you belong.”
That was the moment she understood him completely.
Six months later, I returned to Vale Biotech in a cream silk suit, healed scars hidden beneath it and steel in my spine. The lobby screen displayed the new announcement: Claire Beaumont Vale, Chairwoman and Interim CEO.
