"I swear I will make them pay with everything I have. I will use my very own blood to sign the documents that will end them if I must!” To Champagne Gold, life was always like a fast-moving truck with no brakes and a drunk driver, one she couldn't avoid. At the age of five, she lost her parents in a helicopter crash. Life after that was one problem to another but she held on... until her grandfather passed away as well. With his death came the loss of her position of CEO and her hard-earned shares. As if that was not enough, she was served with divorce papers and the revelation of her husband's adultery with her cousin. Dealt with one too many blows, Champagne sought to end it all. Perhaps she could be reincarnated or whisked away to another world like the books she read before, but that was not to be. Instead, a mysterious man entered her life. "Rather than escape like a coward, I can give you the power and resources to carry out your revenge. I have but one condition―marry me.” Champagne held her lips between her teeth and took the offer. However, just when she believed her new life was going smoothly, she found out another painful secret. One more painful than any she had discovered before. She had undergone a uterus removal procedure and she didn't even know it. Now Champagne is more determined than ever to get revenge on everyone who wronged her. She would do and give everything to make them pay for taking away something so precious from her.
"You think?" I ask.
"Dearest, what do you think of Marilyn Monroe in glasses?" He asks.
"The woman looks good in everything. She was stunning in glasses."
"Well right now, Marilyn Monroe in glasses can't hold a candle next to you. You look far more breathtaking," He's exaggerating.
"You are exaggerating." I can feel the warmth from his hands getting hotter like it always does anytime his touch lingers on my skin.
I try to turn my head to the side, but his hands on my face are firm and won't allow me the liberty to escape his gaze.
"I am not." He says, "and even if I am, it is only because you are worth every exaggeration." He says and when he says something like that while staring at me like that, also while being so close to me, it makes me lose my breath completely.