My love came many years too late

Sterling Hale has ruled the Hale Group for five years, cold and heartless, treating his wife, Elaine Vanderbilt, as if she were invisible. But when a storm erupts in the boardroom, he publicly declares: "She is my wife." Elaine has endured for years, her heart turned to ash. Yet as his belated affection closes in, she realizes—this marriage was never a contract, but a protection he had plotted for ages. Meanwhile, Shirley Hale suffered three years of abuse before finally kicking her CEO ex-husband to the curb. She threw herself into her career, with suitors lining up at her door. While her ex fumed over the child he believed was "lost," she had already become the light he could never reach. Love arrived many years too late. But this time, no one is letting go.