Chapter 5 - The Mistress's Downfall
Chloe backed away from Clara, her eyes wide with terror as two female federal agents stepped up behind her.
"I didn't do anything! I'm just a guest!" Chloe shrieked, her voice cracking as her manicured hands thrashed against the agents' grip. "Julian told me he was single! He gave me those luxury handbags!"
"Those luxury handbags were purchased with wire-fraud proceeds from a seized corporate account, Miss Cross," the federal agent informed her coldly, clicking handcuffs over her slender wrists. "You are being detained as an active co-conspirator."
The high-society guests who had mocked Clara minutes earlier pulled out their smartphones, recording every second of Chloe, Julian, and Arthur being processed in chains.
Julian thrashed on the floor, weeping pathetically as he looked up at his heavily pregnant wife standing above him in her pristine white maternity gown.
"Clara! My love! Please tell them to stop!" Julian sobbed, his arrogant facade completely destroyed. "Think of our baby! You can't let them take your child's father to prison!"
Clara looked down at him with an expression of cool, absolute detachment, gently rubbing her pregnant belly.
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"You called me trash, Julian..." Clara said in a quiet, decisive voice that carried across the silent ballroom. "...but today, the trash gets taken out."
👉 Read Part 6 to see what happened to the Vance family's multi-million-dollar real estate empire.
