Chapter 9 : Second chances

I quietly watched Melissa from across the room with an inexplicable tightness squeezing my chest.

There she was, my former sugar baby Melissa, embracing the two children she had borne to another man with a softness that caused an ache inside me.

It was shocking to see how much of her had changed over the years. The scrawny, meek eighteen-year-old girl I remembered was gone. She was now replaced by a confident, wealthy doctor and mother who carried herself with an air of sophistication and strength.

It was hard to believe that she was the same Melissa who used to shuffle around with her head down, the timid Omega maid who had clung to me as if I were her entire world.

Back then, I was everything to her—the sun and moon, the center of her universe. Her addiction to me had been intoxicating, and I had enjoyed it so much that I felt invincible.

When we made love, her eyes used to make an unspoken promise that she would never leave my side, that I was the most valuable and most important p