For 12 years, Maeve played the "oblivious trophy wife." Her husband Roderick ran her family's company, flaunted his CFO mistress Selina, and thought he held all the power. He didn't know she tracked every dirty transfer, every arrogant post Selina made (the bikini pics, the "Mrs. Maddox" comments—she saw it all). He didn't know she was just waiting for their daughter to finish high school...
Chapter 1
For 12 years, I let Roderick think he was winning.
Winning my family's company. Winning the right to parade Selina—his CFO, his "partner", his not-so-secret mistress—at every gala. Winning the game where I played the quiet homemaker, too busy with our daughter to notice.
Everyone asked why I didn't fight back. Why I let Selina post those beach pics (him with his arm around her waist, her grinning like she owned the place) or call herself "family" in front of the whole team.
I just smiled, "What's there to worry about?"
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Selina Stanwick, the CFO of my husband Roderick Maddox's company, was the very model of loyalty and exceptional competence.
She had been a key player in Roderick's business ventures through her twenties and into her early thirties, and she had never married.
In contrast, I had spent years as a homemaker, focusing solely on our daughter's education.
A friend was outraged on my behalf. "Selina acts like she's Mrs. Maddox! How can you just sit there an
