“I don’t want him back. I want him ruined.”

They say revenge is best served cold.

Mine has been waiting for five years.

The night James Reed erased me from his life, I was pregnant, broke, and foolish enough to believe love mattered more than money.

He proved me wrong.

When you’re bleeding in the rain, clutching your stomach, while your best friend laughs from his doorway, you learn exactly what people like them think you’re worth.

Nothing.

The woman who nearly died that night is gone.

The one who came back is someone else entirely.

I’m Anna Quinn—lost daughter of one of California’s most powerful families, CEO of my own pharmaceutical empire, and the silent majority shareholder in James Reed’s failing company.

He doesn’t see the cracks in his perfect marriage.

He doesn’t realize the investors keeping him afloat answer to me now.

James thinks he’s untouchable.

He thinks the formula he stole made him invincible.

But empires built on stolen work don’t last—especially when the original mind behind it decides to pull the plug.

And this time, I’m the one holding all the cards.