DEREK'S POINT OF VIEW
She thinks she’s all that now, doesn’t she? The perfume queen, the golden woman of the year, the face of every billboard and luxury ad. Ari. My ex-wife. My mistake. I can’t believe she’s richer than me. Me. The man who built everything from scratch.
I slammed the whiskey glass on the table and sank back into the leather chair, staring at the documents scattered across my desk. Each one was a reminder of how fast my empire was falling apart. The numbers were red. The calls weren’t being returned. And my so-called “loyal investors”? They were all running straight into the arms of that smug bastard, Adrian Meyer.
He stole everything. My business. My finances. My reputation. And my wife.
Now he’s everywhere—on magazine covers, on TV, in business conferences—always sta
