The Secretary Stole My Future

Synopsis

I built a company with Victor Graham. We spent five years in a freezing basement in the north of the city, splitting a cramped bedroom with strangers. Five years later, the company caught the wave and took off. He became the industry's golden boy. The wedding he once promised me in that basement? Now it was always: " Charlotte, just wait a little longer. The timing isn't right. My work's too crazy." Yet the very next day, his newly hired secretary showed up at the shareholder dinner wearing the title of "the CEO's fiancée." And on her finger was the diamond ring I'd gazed at behind that glass counter a thousand times. " Emily was just being playful. She insisted on trying it on. That ring was always meant for you. Don't take it to heart. She's young. You're not going to hold this against her, are you?" I let out a bitter laugh, exhaled long and slow, and set down every ounce of love I'd carried all these years: "Victor, I've decided I'm done waiting for you."