MY HIGH SCHOOL BULLY POURED RED WINE ALL OVER ME IN FRONT OF EVERYONE—SHE HAD NO IDEA I OWNED THE RESTAURANT, OR THAT THE MILLIONAIRE SHE WAS DESPERATE TO IMPRESS WAS MY HUSBAND.
My High School Bully Poured Red Wine All Over Me at a Luxury Restaurant—Then She Saw Who Walked Through the Door!
“HOLD STILL, MAYA! YOU'RE RUINING MY PICTURE!”
Red wine soaked through my white shirt as forty restaurant guests watched my former high school bully laugh and point her phone at me.
FIFTEEN YEARS.
That's how long it had been since Lauren Kessler made my life a living nightmare.
She humiliated me in school, turned my classmates against me, and made me dread walking into a classroom.
And now, fifteen years later, she was doing it all over again.
“YOU STILL WORK IN RESTAURANTS?” Lauren sneered, looking at my wine-soaked shirt.
“I guess some people never amount to anything.”
Her friends laughed.
I could feel everyone's eyes on me.
But instead of crying or fighting back, I calmly placed my tray on the table.
“Would you like another glass of water?” I asked.
Lauren looked disappointed.
She wanted me to break down.
She wanted another humiliating video to post online.
BUT SHE HAD NO IDEA WHAT SHE'D JUST WALKED INTO.
Suddenly, my phone vibrated.
It was a message from my husband, Jonah.
“Outside now. Meeting a prospective vendor in five.”
I smiled faintly.
Then my eyes landed on the reservation card beside Lauren's expensive handbag.
My heart skipped a beat.
JONAH COLLINS.
MY HUSBAND'S NAME.
Lauren was waiting for him.
She had no idea the man she was so desperate to impress was married to the very woman she'd just humiliated.
And she certainly didn't know what I knew about the meeting.
Then the restaurant's front door opened.
I turned toward the entrance.
AND LAUREN'S SMUG LITTLE SMILE WAS ABOUT TO FACE ITS FIRST REAL TEST.
After fifteen years of treating me like I was worthless, my high school bully had just made a terrible mistake.
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But what would happen when Jonah discovered what she'd done to his wife?
THE MOST UNFORGETTABLE PART OF THAT LUNCH WAS STILL TO COME…
