David’s POV
The air felt heavy with tension as I parked my car a few blocks down from where Susan was standing. I followed her from the office to pick up the kids. After countless attempts to speak with her at the office, she wouldn’t grant me an audience. She was alone now; the kids and Mark had gone ahead, and for the first time in years, I saw her without a barrier between us. Without the walls I had built—without the lies I had told myself, Natasha said she was cheating on me. I didn’t check if they were lies or not; I just simply believed. Why? Because for the first time in my life I felt like a failure; my empire was falling apart, and I could do nothing to protect it. When Susan left, she hurt my ego. And my ego had stopped me from searching for her all these years until she sho
