CEO's Passion: Love by Mistake

Intrinsically guilty to begin with, Susan's contrite only grew when she heard what he said. “You were great to me, but I've never felt that way for you. The one I love has always been Warren.”

“Then why did you come and seduce me twenty years ago?” Harrison's eyes widened with rage.

Indeed, he started an affair with Susan all those years ago, but the truth was, it was Susan who initiated things by coming onto him first.

That day, the project that he was in charge of went awry. Consequently, it was taken off his hands by an irate Yulia whose decision received the firm support of the shareholders. Harrison was even castigated for insisting on handling things himself as opposed to passing it over to her right from the beginning. He was also saddled with the blame for the fallout that ensued.

Embarrassed, Harrison saw his male pride take a massive blow. He keenly felt those shareholders' mockery and disregard for him, and how they thought him less capable than his own wife.

In a fit of anger, he went off to the club where he shared a few drinks with his no-good friends. It was also there that he met Susan Sullivan.

young and pretty, and capable of being demure and alluring in equal measure. That was

matched his ideal of what a woman should be like; one who existed to serve men. He thought that there was no reason for a woman to compete with men in the corporate arena. In spite of Yulia being well aware that he was a proud man, she purposefully

to get back at her, and under Susan's intentional enticement,

him feel a

to seek out Susan whenever he was displeased with Yulia. Only with Susan was he able to regain the pride of

lips. “Warren and I have been together since twenty years ago. Because we were born poor, he and I sought

capable of

City. Those who were too wealthy were out of our reach, and those who had too little weren't to our liking.

the agitated Harrison with derision. “You were born humble like us and only able to establish Smith Group by piggybacking on the rather well-to-do Yulia. To put it bluntly, you lived off on your own wife while convincing yourself of your own greatness in spite of being as bereft of business acuity as you are. That was why you couldn't stand that Yulia was more established

Harrison's grizzled face