I Played His Lover’s Husband Chapter 02
My engagement to Dominic had always been a business deal.
He protected me while I fought the illegitimate son for control of my family’s shares.
I stood by his side while he fought for control of the Harrington family business. We pushed his uncles and cousins out of the company.
We were perfectly matched. A power couple in every sense.
Together, we won every battle with style.
One night after our win-win, I stood before the floor-to-ceiling window on the twenty-eighth floor and lit a cigarette with reckless satisfaction.
The scent curled through the air like burning aged cedarwood.
Dominic held the same brand between his fingers. Expensive, niche, impossible to find unless you knew exactly where to look.
He raised a brow. “What a coincidence. Got a light?”
I looked up, a faint smile curving my lips, and nodded.
The next second, he leaned in, cigarette dangling from his lips.
The tips touched. A spark caught, flaring between us.
Our eyes met. Desire ignited instantly.
My palm pressed helplessly against the massive glass window, only to be completely covered by his larger hand.
His fingers laced through mine, pinning me there with nowhere to run.
When Dominic decided to spoil someone, he held nothing back.
He handed over shares worth tens of millions without hesitation.
Jewelry, designer bags-gifts that poured in like money meant nothing to him.
And the sweet talk? It rolled right off his tongue.
I truly believed that after years of secretly loving him, I had finally reached the light at the end of the tunnel.
Then I walked in on a woman straddling him.
Her high heels dangled lazily as her red lips curled into a smirk.
“Miss Montgomery, your fiancé’s quite something.”
“To be fair, you can borrow my husband too.”
Unlike the half-dressed woman straddling him, Dominic was still impeccably composed.
No lust clouded his features. Not a trace of guilt for being caught in the act.
He narrowed his eyes slightly.
There was amusement in his expression, but he was also studying me carefully.
It was a business arrangement, after all.
No one expected real love. Playing around separately was practically normal.
My nails dug into my palm, but I still smiled flawlessly at Dominic.
“Well then, don’t mind if I do.”
That same night, I spent the evening with that woman’s husband.
After that, every time Dominic took up a new lover, I’d seek out her husband for retaliation.
A silent, mutual understanding.
Over the years, we’d become accomplices in each other’s betrayals.
In a twisted way, we even kept up the facade of a civil engagement.
Until one day, I overheard one of his friends teasing him.
“Dominic, Estelle pays married men to help her get back at you.”
“She acts like she doesn’t care about you anymore and pretends she’s just playing around. Honestly, that sounds exhausting.”
“She’s been secretly in love with you for years. You’re not worried she’ll eventually give up for real and actually fall for someone else?”
Half of Dominic’s face was hidden in the shadows of the private room.
Smoke drifted lazily from between his lips as he answered in a casual, arrogant tone.
“She won’t.”
That was when I realized something.
The feelings I thought I had hidden so well were never actually a secret. Neither was the indifference I tried so hard to fake.
Even the little dignity I had left was probably obvious to everyone around me.
In Dominic’s eyes, they were worthless. Completely laughable.
As an adult, I rarely let myself lose control.
But that night, I drank myself senseless in front of the floor-to-ceiling window on the twenty-eighth floor.
That night, my emotions finally broke through the walls I’d built for years-tears I couldn’t hold back.
I laughed, then started crying.
In that moment, I finally got that love and physical attraction were not always the same thing.
What I hadn’t expected was that one reckless night would get me completely tangled up.
Rhett Vance buried his face against the back of my neck and left a hard bite there.
“Estelle, I’ve never done this before.”
He looked at me quietly. “So… you can’t just walk away from me now.”