My CEO Husband Took His Mistress to the Gala—Then the Woman He Left at Home Bought His Company
Spencer took his mistress to the Apex Group gala and left his wife standing at home in the same faded navy dress she had owned long before they were married.
"You'd only embarrass me," my CEO husband said coldly, without even looking back, while the housekeeper silently watched from the hallway.
Three years earlier, I had walked away from the Sterling fortune because I wanted to know one thing.
Could someone truly love me without knowing whose daughter I was?
So I erased every trace of my identity.
I hid my family name.
I made myself invisible.
And I convinced myself that Spencer's growing contempt was simply the price of living an ordinary life.
I was wrong.
Then his mistress sent me a photo from the passenger seat of his SUV.
Tonight, he'll finally belong to me.
I stared at the message for a long moment before walking upstairs.
Inside an old red velvet jewelry box lay the SIM card I had hidden for three years.
It contained only one phone number.
I inserted it into my phone...
...and made the call.
Twenty minutes later, three black Mercedes vans rolled through the gates of the mansion.
When I stepped into the Apex Group ballroom wearing a diamond-covered couture gown, every conversation stopped.
Spencer looked up.
The champagne glass slipped from his hand...
...and exploded across the marble floor.
Before he could say a word, the announcer's voice echoed through the ballroom.
"Please welcome Ms. Phoebe Sterling... sole heir to the Sterling family and the new majority shareholder of Apex Group."
The room fell into stunned silence.
Spencer's face turned completely white.
But my true identity wasn't what terrified him the most.
Apex Group had been preparing a multimillion-dollar investment in his company.
Someone had approved the deal...
using my forged signature.
As the realization spread across the room, I slowly turned toward the board table.
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One director was already pushing back his chair...
and heading for the exit.
