For years, Hayes set aside her ambitions to raise a family and support Richard from home. Once his business reached the stock market, he demanded that they live as financial strangers. Encouraged by his calculating assistant Amber, and joined by a daughter who no longer respected her, Richard assumed Hayes would simply endure it. Instead, she accepted his terms and uncovered the woman they had ignored. Secretly a powerful owner of his firm, Hayes returned to finance as the elusive trader H and dismantled the life Richard thought was secure. Their remorse came too late. Hayes walked away from the marriage, seized control of the company, and began again beside the compassionate Alexander.
