My name is Éléonore Morel. In the eyes of my husband, Laurent Dubois, I am just a simple housewife: without work, without ambition and, according to him, without value.
What Laurent doesn’t know is that I am the secret owner of the Horizon Global Holdings group, an empire valued at five billion euros, with shipping lines on the French Mediterranean coast, luxury hotels in Nice and Cannes, and technology companies based in Paris, Lyon and other major European cities.
Why did I hide it? Because I wanted Laurent to love me for who I am, not for my money. When we met in Lyon, he was friendly, hard-working and full of dreams. But when he was promoted at the company where he worked — not knowing that it was also one of my subsidiaries — he changed. He became arrogant, contemptuous, and I lost the man I had fallen in love with.
The night of his graduation party has arrived. He had just been appointed Vice President of Sales for France.
I was getting ready, holding my evening dress, when Laurent entered the room with a hanger in his hand.
