He Called Me the Other Woman,So I Walked AwayChapter 1

"Your mother was the other woman. So what does that make you?"

Adam Sanchez slid the custom ring onto my finger, then asked me that out of nowhere.

I stared at him, stunned. "Adam, what are you talking about?"

"It makes you the other woman too, babe."

I didn't understand. His expression was dead serious. "I want you to become my secret lover."

"There's a new secretary at the company. She's sharp, she's beautiful, and I want to marry her."

"Then what am I?"

He arranged his face into something resembling regret. "Your mother knew she was a mistress and chose to be one anyway. Why can't you?"

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It took me a long time to speak. "My mother is my mother. I'm me. I won't be anyone's mistress."

"Is that so?"

He let out a mocking laugh. "Then we're done."

"Fine. Done is done." I had sworn to myself a long time ago that I would never be the other woman. Not in this lifetime.

But Adam didn't know that.

He reached over and stroked my hair, gentle as ever. "Don't be silly. Stop throwing a fit. Without me, how would you even survive?"