Chapter 2After I Made Him Don, He Cheated on Me

It was late, and Alexander still wasn't home.

He used to claim that family business kept him busy. Now he didn't even bother hiding his affair.

Every time that man said he loved me, it was a lie. Just thinking about it made me sick.

Sienna's smile flashed through my mind. She had a sweet, innocent face and two deep dimples that appeared whenever she smiled.

That innocent face fooled me too.

I opened Sienna's Instagram. Her pinned post was still a photo of the two of us. In it, I stood beside her, smiling with a bouquet in my arms as we celebrated her graduation.

Back then, I was the one who told Alexander about her. Sienna had been a younger student at my school, and I'd supported her financially for four years. I told him she was kind, sweet, and full of life.

On my recommendation, Alexander hired her as his assistant.

I thought there would be less gossip if she worked for the Roswell Group instead of joining the Slade Group directly.

And Sienna had always known Alexander was my fiancé.

Before she started working for him, she took both my hands in hers and made me a promise. "Evelyn, I won't let another woman near Alexander. I swear it."

She kept that promise, all right. She didn't let another woman near him because she wanted him for herself.

She was just like Alexander. A liar to the core.

Two seconds later, a new photo appeared on her Instagram. It showed two hands clasped together.

I recognized Alexander's hand at once.

The long scar he'd gotten while saving my life ran across the back of his hand.

13 years ago, I brought Alexander out of Grassmere.

Our convoy was ambushed on the way home.

I was the sole heiress to the Slade Group. My uncles wanted me dead so the succession would pass to their children.

Alexander took a blow meant for me. He saved my life and got me home safely, but the attack left an ugly scar across the back of his hand.

That was when I decided he was worth backing. He had ambition, and more importantly, he had the ability to match it.

I used every resource at my disposal to support him. Step by step, I helped him fight his way back into the heart of the Roswell family and eventually become Don.

And now, the same hand that had once saved my life was holding another woman's hand as he promised her a future.

The photo turned my stomach. I tightened my grip on the file I'd prepared—the agreement that would permanently sever all business ties between the Roswell Group and the Slade Group.

Alexander was going to pay dearly for betraying me.

I took a deep breath, steadied myself, picked up the file, and headed for Roswell Group's headquarters.

Alexander's office was on the top floor, overlooking the entire city. It was also where he'd proposed to me.

That day, he'd gone down on one knee with the whole city spread out beneath us. "Alexander Roswell swears on his life that he will never betray Evelyn Slade."

What a joke that promise had become. Now he was sitting behind his desk with an arm around Sienna, laughing and talking with her.

"Evelyn, I've missed you so much." Sienna spotted me first and hurried over, reaching for my arm as she always had.

I turned away before she could touch me, walked straight past her, and stopped in front of Alexander.

"Sign it."

He took the file from me.

"Evelyn, are you still upset? The Slade Group has been canceling my projects lately, but I don't mind. Everything was always meant for you anyway."

Sienna jumped in, pretending to be concerned. "Evelyn, don't be angry with Alexander. He hasn't been able to sleep because of this. He's been working until dawn every night. It hurts me to see you two fighting because of me. You're the two people I love most. As for the baby... I've agreed to Alexander's plan. Once the baby is born, I'll give the baby to you to raise."

I let out a cold laugh and ignored her sickening little performance.

I kept my eyes on Alexander.

"Sign it. This ends all joint projects between our companies."

He looked at me like I was a child throwing a tantrum.

Then he picked up a pen and signed without a second thought.

"Evelyn, you're adorable when you're being childish. Does this fake document make you feel better?"

I almost laughed. How ridiculous. How pathetic.

I'd loved Alexander so much that I'd spoiled him. Now he believed this was nothing more than another tantrum.

He truly believed I would never leave him.