The Wife He Branded a Thief - A Later-in-Life Billionaire Marriage-in-Crisis Romance of Public Humiliation, Divorce, Revenge, and an Earned Second Chance  #987692

My billionaire husband did not defend me.
He called security.
Then he watched them remove me from the ballroom.
Six hundred guests saw my face appear on the giant screens beneath one terrible word:
THIEF.
For eight years, I gave Sebastian Halstead everything.
My love.
My loyalty.
My father’s recipes.
And the food empire I helped him build.
Sebastian once saved me from a dangerous debt and gave me his powerful family name. I believed he was the safest man in my world.
Then false evidence appeared.
Millions of dollars were missing. My private account had been used. My signature appeared on stolen company files.
And Sebastian’s beautiful first wife stood beside him while he chose his company over me.
So I removed my wedding ring.
I filed for divorce.
And I walked out barefoot.
Now someone has stolen my late father’s recipe book. My old debt has returned. A secret contract has transferred my family’s work into the hands of people who want me ruined.
Worse, Halstead Foods needs me.
If I refuse to work with Sebastian for ninety days, factories will close and thousands of innocent workers may lose everything.
Sebastian says he was wrong.
He says he will expose the people who framed me.
He says he will surrender his fortune, his company, and his name before he allows anyone to hurt me again.
But I have already learned the truth.
Love without trust is another kind of cage.
And while Sebastian is fighting for the wife he destroyed, another man is showing me what love feels like when it asks instead of taking.
Sebastian may have saved me once.
This time, I am saving myself.
And if my former husband wants a second chance, regret will not be enough.
He will have to earn every step back to me.