Chapter 1

Every time one of the girls Carter messed around with showed up at my door, I would say the exact same thing:

"Answer three questions for me. Get them right, and I’ll sign the divorce papers. You can have the title of Mrs. Sterling."

"Get them wrong, and you disappear. Or, I make you disappear."

They all thought they were the exception.

But not a single one of them had ever gotten all three questions right.

Until Carter personally brought that young girl and sat her down right in front of me.

The girl squinted at me with a smug smile:

"Hi. He doesn’t love you. Why don’t you just beat it?"

"I really don't want to get my hands dirty fighting an old woman."

I rested my chin on my hand and asked her the same three questions as always.

She answered fast, and she got them wrong just as fast.

But when my assistant, Maya, stepped forward to escort her out, I smiled and nodded:

"Congratulations."

I slipped off my platinum wedding ring and slid it across the table:

"As of today, I'm stepping down."