Love and Devotion No Longer His to Claim by Dream Fish

Chapter 1

It was actually very obvious whether a man loved a woman or not. Angela Graham knew it very well.

For example, Dexter Bamford could spend a fortune buying out all the billboards in the central business district to celebrate the birthday of his first love, Elena Carrey. He did so that the whole city would be able to tell his sincerity toward her.

But for Angela's birthday, all she got was just a small, six-inch cake. In fact, it was the very same cake the nanny had gotten on her birthday.

Angela chuckled when she saw the cake. It made sense, after all. Although she was Dexter's legally wedded wife, the actual Mrs. Bamford, her job scope wasn't much different from the nanny's anyway.

The only extra task she had was sleeping with Dexter.

Angela felt tears well in her eyes when she thought about this. The loneliness in her eyes stood out like a sore thumb amid the noisy surroundings of the party.

Dexter had been late to the party as always. Actually, he had planned on staying at the banquet hall for a while longer, but he had received a message just then.

He opened up the message, not bothering to hide anything from Angela. It was as if her feelings weren't even worth considering at any point.

"It kinda hurts... Can you come over?"

Along with the message was a photo of a woman's bare back, decorated all over with red hickeys and love bites, as if she had just finished rolling in the sheets with her lover a few minutes ago. It was very suggestive.

Angela couldn't even describe what she was feeling anymore. She just felt the discomfort in her stomach start to intensify.

She knew the person who had sent Dexter the messages. It was his secretary, Erica Carrey, Elena's younger sister. She had just never imagined that Erica was also one of Dexter's sex partners.

Angela stared at Dexter's phone for a long time. It wasn't until Dexter addressed her that she finally snapped back to her senses.

"Done staring?"

her gaze meeting

features were partially hidden in the shadows under the dim light. He exuded a cold and aloof air as he threw Angela another glance and nonchalantly slipped the phone

hurried or anxious at all, and he certainly wasn't remorseful that his wife had found out about his affair. He didn't even care whether

Angela simply lowered her head like a guilty child who

just simply couldn't hold this against him. After all, following what had happened the last time, her father, Bill Graham, had remarried, and Angela didn't have any support from her maternal family. They no longer wanted to

called Jetson Co., but Bill had completely taken over the company. He had also long forgotten his promise to Marie and abandoned Angela

wife. She knew that she had no right to question

about to leave, Angela tugged on the corner of his shirt and said, "Dexter, can

suddenly came close to her. He chuckled in her ear and said, "What, tonight?

had never gone easy on

joked that Dexter and Angela kept behaving like newlyweds in their honeymoon phase with how often they stuck

knew that this so-called intimacy was only a show. Dexter had never viewed her

she was a liability to him. He also thought this was all part of her devious

Angela a chance to answer, Dexter nodded at the rest of the guests and left the

than usual. Angela glanced at the clock and saw

she waited for him. When she saw

vaguely smelled like peaches. Obviously, this scent didn't belong to her.

"Dexter-"

was immediately interrupted. However, it was obvious

said it nonchalantly, as if

blind eye to Dexter's tomfoolery, serve him food, and satisfy him in bed whenever he wanted. She was

wait until I've showered,"

of messy hair. His bathrobe hung loosely on his shoulders,

didn't dare to look up at him. It had been so many years, and Dexter still managed to hypnotize her like this every

to the ground. From the moment he had smiled at her and told

huge debt from his gambling addiction. Apparently, they had no choice but to put a mortgage on the house Marie had left for Angela to repay his

all along and had nothing to do with them! How