When my husband's secretary struck my six-year-old child across the face and coldly remarked,
I disconnected the call.
Vanessa furrowed her brows.
“What on earth did you just do?”
I gave her no reply.
I scooped Sophie into my arms and rushed toward the nearest hospital.
Within an hour, the panic reached Apex Dynamics.
Two financial institutions halted new credit lines pending collateral audits.
An investment group pulled out of a scheduled funding summit.
Three corporate partners demanded immediate contract reviews.
Ethan still had no inkling of reality.
Nor did he know that his own wife was the architect of his company's sudden downfall.
And Vanessa still had zero idea that her violent act against my daughter had just unlocked a secret buried deep for seven years.
She couldn't begin to imagine what was about to happen...
