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 Dexter's dark

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

remorseful that his wife had found out about his affair.

lowered her head like a guilty child who had just done something wrong.

time, her father, Bill Graham, had remarried, and Angela

to own a company called Jetson Co., but Bill had completely taken over the company. He had also long forgotten his promise to Marie and abandoned Angela for the sake of his new wife, Judy Miller, and

knew that she had no right to question Dexter, the head of the household who provided

was about to leave, Angela tugged on the corner of his shirt and

close to her. He chuckled in

shuddered suddenly. Dexter had never gone easy on her

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

so-called intimacy was only a show. Dexter had never

so she was a liability to

nodded at the rest of the

even later than usual. Angela glanced at the clock and saw

as she waited for him. When she saw him enter the house, she got up and approached

his coat from him, she thought it vaguely smelled like peaches. Obviously, this scent didn't belong to her. She

"Dexter-"

as she started to speak, she was immediately interrupted. However,

He said it nonchalantly, as if reminding Angela

Dexter's tomfoolery, serve him food, and satisfy him in bed

until I've showered," Dexter said, walking around Angela as he

from the bathroom with a head of messy hair. His bathrobe hung loosely on his

to look up at him. It had been so many years, and Dexter still managed to hypnotize her like

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

racked up a huge debt from his gambling addiction. Apparently, they had no choice but to put a mortgage on

house had belonged to Marie all along and had nothing to do with them! How could they have done such