He invited his ex-wife to his wedding to watch her suffer—but she arrived with four bodyguards and a man who held the power to ruin everything.

part was a handwritten note.

“Come, Mariana. I want you to see what a woman who knows how to stand beside a successful man actually looks like.”

Mariana did not cry.

That was the first thing that surprised Mateo.

Before, any message from his father would leave her pale, quiet, and broken for hours.

But that afternoon, his mother simply folded the invitation continue reading …