HIS EX CAME BACK WITH HIS SON, SO I WALKED AWAY

I spent six years loving a man who never truly chose me.Six years as Adrian Blackwood's wife.
Six years beside the most powerful billionaire in the city, pretending that our marriage was enough while secretly hoping that one day he would look at me and see more than a business arrangement.
I thought patience would eventually become love.
I was wrong.
Then his first love came back.
Serena Vale returned with a five-year-old boy who had Adrian's eyes, his features, and a claim that shattered everything I thought I knew about my husband.
His son.
Suddenly, the man who had spent years keeping me at a distance was consumed by the family he believed he had lost.
And I became invisible.
The woman who had stood beside him through every difficult year no longer mattered. The projects I had built were handed away. My place in his company disappeared. And the woman from his past began taking the place I had spent six years trying to earn.
But there was one thing Adrian never expected me to do.
Leave.
I walked away without begging him to choose me.
I walked away without fighting another woman for my own husband.
I walked away because I finally understood something painful:
I should never have to compete for the right to be loved.
Away from Adrian, I began rebuilding the life I had forgotten how to live. I found my confidence. I built my own success. And for the first time, I became Vivian Sterling-not Adrian Blackwood's wife.
Then Adrian came looking for me.
He said he had made the biggest mistake of his life.
He said he finally understood what I had meant to him.
He said he wanted another chance.
But regret is easy when the person you took for granted is gone.
And I refuse to return to the woman who waited for scraps of affection.
If Adrian wants me back, he will have to prove that I am no longer his second choice.
Because this time, I won't settle for being chosen because someone else walked away.
This time, he has to choose me when he has every reason not to.
And if he can't?
I'll walk away again.