Seven Years in the Shadows

Synopsis

For seven years, I've been his wife hidden in the shadows. Our son is publicly denied as his "nephew." To please his first love, he filled the house with deadly lily flowers. My six-year-old son was locked in that pollen-filled room and suffocated to death. When I rushed him to the hospital barely alive, my husband was accompanying that woman for an IV drip. In that moment, I personally sentenced this marriage to death. I disappeared with my child, and he knelt begging me to come back, trying to atone with everything he had. But he didn't know. The day he knelt down, I had already decided to make him spend the rest of his life paying for my son's final breath. Jade's POV "Mr. Carter, and this is...?" "She's my assistant. That kid is my relative, staying at my place temporarily." When Damien Carter introduced me to the client, his tone was casual. I lowered my head, organizing documents without a word. In reality, we'd been married for seven years. That child was his biological son. Damien and I had a child after an accident. We'd kept the marriage a secret ever since. To the outside world, our son was just my relative. After the client left, the smile vanished from Damien's face instantly. He slammed a contract onto the desk. "Jade Wilson, why is the amount in this contract missing a zero? Are you trying to cost the company tens of millions?" I picked up the contract and glanced at it. "This was the first draft prepared by Clara. I hadn't gotten to review it yet before you rushed to show it to the client." Damien frowned and looked over at Clara Hayes. Clara's eyes were already red, standing