The Wife He Treated Like the Enemy (Marriage in Crisis, Grovel & Redemption #13)

Lorna

I built a company powerful enough to threaten Jake’s family empire.

Then it collapsed, I lost everything, and the man I loved discovered I belonged to the family he had been raised to hate.

When I told Jake I was pregnant despite the protection we used, he married me. For seven years, I tried to believe there was love beneath his cold touches, his empty side of the bed, and the endless hours he gave his corporation instead of our daughter and me.

His mother never let me forget that Jake should have married someone else. According to her, losing my company gave me the opportunity to fulfill my proper purpose: raising Jake’s child and supporting him from the shadows.

Then I overhear the truth.

Jake tells his family that he never loved me. He married me because I was pregnant and stayed because our daughter deserved both parents.

His family’s response is worse.

They congratulate him for destroying my company and getting me pregnant before I could rebuild it.

Jake denies trapping me, but seven years inside a loveless marriage have given me no reason to believe him.

He stayed because leaving would have made him a bad father.

So I make the decision for him.

I take our daughter, leave my wedding ring behind, and begin rebuilding the empire his family stole from me.

Jake says I was never his enemy.

If he wants another chance, he will have to prove it.