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On our wedding anniversary, my husband showed up at the company's annual gala with his first love on his arm and introduced her to the entire room. "This is my fiancée." I stood in the corner, a glass of champagne in hand, watching him in silence. A colleague leaned over. "Melissa, didn't you say Mr. Baker was married? So why does he suddenly have a fiancée?" I smiled faintly. "I must have remembered it wrong." That same night, I moved out of the house we once shared, taking only a single potted plant—the pothos he had never bothered to water. He didn't know it was the last thing my mother had left me. And he didn't know that the largest shareholder of his company was me. And tomorrow was the shareholders' meeting.