My billionaire husband bet fifty thousand dollars that I would fail.
He made the bet at our own dinner table.
He laughed with his brother while I stood in front of his family holding the plans for my new company.
"Fifty thousand says she gives up before Christmas."
His brother accepted.
His mother told me not to embarrass the family.
And the man I had loved for seventeen years raised his glass to my failure.
Grant Wolfe believed I was only his wife.
He forgot that I helped him build his empire.
He forgot that many of his greatest ideas began with me.
Most of all, he forgot what happens when a patient woman finally stops waiting.
So I left him.
I took the cruel wager and placed it on my office wall. Then I hired brilliant women the world had also rejected.
We called ourselves the Long Shots.
Christmas came.
My company was still standing.
Spring came.
We were growing.
By the second year, we were profitable.
By the fourth, we won the award Grant's company had chased for a decade.
But Grant is no longer laughing.
Now the billionaire who bet against me is losing everything.
His company.
His family.
His pride.
And the wife he never believed he could lose.
He says he has changed.
He says he will spend the rest of his life proving it.
But while Grant fights for another chance, a kind and powerful investor is offering me something my husband never did.
Respect.
Freedom.
A future that does not require me to become smaller.
Grant wants his wife back.
Adrian wants the woman I have become.
And I must decide whether the man who broke my heart deserves the chance to rebuild it.
He lost every bet.
Now he is betting everything on winning back his ex-wife.