When His Ex Walked Back In

For three years, I was Ava Chen, an architect indispensable to Marcus Thorne by day, and his secret, devoted lover by night, clinging to a desperate hope he’d finally see me.

Then, his glamorous ex-fiancée, Isabelle Duval, reappeared.

Marcus’s public adoration for her was a public discard of me, shattering every fragile hope.

The office became her stage for my degradation.

Isabelle, bathed in Marcus’s favoring eye, physically and emotionally abused me—from demanding dog water to feigning accidental spills of scalding coffee.