Chapter 1

"Three years, Ethan. Isn't it time this charade ended?"

I heard the words from behind the partially ajar emergency exit door.

"Pretty much. Her birthday is in ten days. I plan to make it unforgettable for her. Let her experience what it's like to fall from heaven to hell at the peak of her happiness."

That was Ethan's voice.

He was my husband. The man who knelt beneath a sky of fireworks and told me his feelings for me were real.

"The cruelest part is, you're playing the loving husband while secretly teaming up with her ex-fiancé to dismantle the Davis Group's foundation."

Blake was there too. My ex-fiancé who betrayed me, the same guy now having an affair with my husband's sister, was casually chatting and laughing with Ethan.

"Watching her treat her enemy as a savior, blindly devoted... Chloe, when you humiliated me back then, did you ever imagine this day?"

I bit my lip hard, tasting blood.

So from start to finish, I was just a pawn on their chessboard, waiting to be slaughtered.

If that's the case, then don't blame me for being ruthless.