For a few seconds, I couldn't take my eyes off the screen. Every headline seemed worse than the last. Gold Digger. Opportunist. Secret Lover. Homewrecker. Each article painted me as a desperate woman who had seduced Ethan Vance for his fortune, some claiming I'd deliberately climbed the corporate ladder to get close to him, others suggesting I'd planned the entire thing from the moment I joined Vance Holdings. The comments underneath were even crueler, strangers who didn't know me deciding, with total confidence, exactly who I was.
"I'm sorry," Ethan said quietly.
I looked up. "For what?"
"For dragging you into this." His voice carried a sincerity I hadn't expected, none of the cold businessman who had negotiated a marriage contract as though it were another corporate acquisition. Inste
