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?"

raised her head, her gaze meeting

under the dim light. He exuded a cold and aloof air

didn't seem the least bit hurried or anxious at all, and he certainly wasn't remorseful that his wife had

head like a guilty child who had

Bill Graham, had remarried,

used to own a company called Jetson Co., but Bill had completely taken over the company. He had also

trophy wife. She knew that she had no right to question Dexter, the head

the corner of his shirt and said, "Dexter, can

chuckled in her ear

never gone

joked that Dexter and Angela kept behaving like newlyweds in their honeymoon phase

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

that he owned. He had been forced to marry her, so she was a liability to him. He also thought this was all part of her devious plan to suck up to

a chance to answer, Dexter nodded at

night, Dexter got home even later than usual. Angela glanced at the clock and saw that it

sat in the living room as she waited for him. When

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

"Dexter-"

speak, she was immediately interrupted. However, it was

are you sniffing like a dog?" He said it nonchalantly, as if reminding Angela

to Dexter's tomfoolery, serve him food, and

say, you can wait until I've showered," Dexter said,

Dexter emerged from the bathroom with a head of messy hair. His bathrobe hung loosely on his shoulders, revealing his

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

school, she had accidentally bumped into his table, knocking his textbook off to the ground. From the moment he had smiled at her and told her it was okay, with the sun shining in the back, Angela had fallen for

afternoon, saying that Zack had racked up a huge debt from his gambling addiction. Apparently, they

nothing to do with them!