Chapter 1

Chloe, my husband Xavier's assistant, made an important client wait in the freezing wind for four hours. As the director, I salvaged the situation for her. I simply reminded her in the meeting not to let it happen again. But Chloe burst into tears and accused me instead:

"How dare you twist the facts and steal my credit? You were the one too lazy to get out of bed. If I hadn't begged the client on my knees, the deal would've fallen apart already."

Xavier knew the truth, but instead of defending me, he gave her an unprecedented promotion to vice president and forced me to hand the project over to her.

I didn't cry or make a scene. I signed the project transfer agreement.

Xavier thought I'd given in.

What he didn't know was that the client's project manager was my former classmate. The only reason he'd agreed to work with us despite what happened was because he valued my abilities.

Now that the company had invested all its capital into the project, Xavier's breach of contract in changing the project manager wouldn't just cause the investment to go down the drain—it would also result in massive compensation penalties.