Dumped After Going Public

For seven years, Audrey built a company from nothing alongside Ethan Vance, pouring in her savings and her health until the day it finally went public on the New York Stock Exchange. That same afternoon, Ethan blocked her and announced his relationship with Chloe Bennett, his high school sweetheart, telling friends that Audrey was just an assistant he could replace ten times over.

Audrey reads every word from his shared work account. She has run the operations, survived exhaustion and hospital nights, and waited seven years for a man who never saw her. When she finally asks whether he would marry her, his hesitation answers for him, and Chloe's messages and photographs confirm what the years of business trips really were.

Her resignation letter waits in the drawer, and a parting gift is already in motion.