Even at the company’s weekly executive meetings, when our eyes met, Ethan avoided me, sometimes even deliberately stepping aside.
Everyone noticed the change.
My secretary whispered, “Ms. Carter, did you and Mr. Miller have another fight?”
I pressed my fingers to my temple.
“What makes you say that?”
She hesitated, then spoke.
“Two hours ago, Mr. Miller personally brought in an intern. Starting salary—fifty thousand.”
My eyes snapped open.
“What? An intern? Who? What’s her background?”
“She’s called Chloe Adams.”
My assistant glanced at me, looking guilty.
“Mr. Miller said Chloe reports only to him. She doesn’t answer to anyone else.”
I gave a wry smile. So it had come to this.
When I went to the break room for coffee, Chloe appeared with a smirk.
“Sophia, don’t think that just because I didn’t manage to make Ethan divorce you last time, you’ve won.”
“He’s already placed me in the company. He told me I’ll soon be the lady of this empire. You’d better pack your bags and prepare to get out.”
She sent me an audio file.
Ethan’s chuckle played through the speaker.
“Sophia has no femininity at all. Not cute in the slightest.
But you—you’re a little temptress. You’ve bewitched me completely.”