My Cheating Husband’s Billionaire Rival Wants Me

At forty-three years old, Vivian Marlowe won the Athena International Jewelry Design Competition championship twenty years prior. In her youth, she possessed extraordinary design talent and a clear career path ahead of her. Yet after marrying Grant Wexler, she voluntarily abandoned her professional aspirations to support her husband as they built their business from a cramped rental apartment and raise their son and daughter. Over those two decades, Wexler Jewelry Group blossomed into a renowned Los Angeles enterprise—while Vivian gradually became trapped in the rigid roles of the “perfect wife” and devoted mother. She believed her years of sacrifice would secure a lasting marriage, until one day she visited her husband’s office and witnessed Grant locked in an intimate embrace with his young assistant Talia Beckett. Standing outside the door, Vivian overheard Grant sneering at her age, her stretch marks, the permanent scar across her palm, and the domestic life she’d dedicated herself to. In that moment, she realized her decades of devotion had long become nothing more than an irritating burden to him. Grant refused to file for divorce, desperate to uphold his public image as a successful entrepreneur and loving spouse, yet showered Talia with affection as if their affair were an open secret. He forgot Vivian’s birthday, gifted Talia the limited-edition diamond ring Vivian had mistakenly believed was meant for her, and repeatedly claimed late-night “company overtime” as an