Chapter 2 - The Woman He Thought He Knew
Three hours earlier, Flora had been standing beneath the same chandelier.
Only then, the ballroom had been filled with laughter.
Isaac had raised his champagne glass.
Clover had been standing beside him.
Everyone believed they were celebrating Isaac's business promotion.
Flora knew better.
She had discovered the truth that afternoon.
The second phone.
The hidden account.
The messages.
And the photographs.
Isaac hadn't simply been cheating.
He had been using her name to move money.
Money that did not belong to him.
Money connected to a family whose name he had spent years pretending not to recognize.
Flora had confronted him privately.
Isaac laughed.
“You're emotional.”
“I saw the accounts.”
“You don't understand business.”
“I understand enough.”
His smile disappeared.
Then he grabbed her arm.
Hard.
Flora remembered the pain.
She remembered the glass breaking.
She remembered Clover watching from the doorway without helping.
And she remembered Isaac's final sentence.
“You have nowhere to go.”
That was when Flora stopped arguing.
She picked up her phone.
She made one call.
But she didn't call the police.
She called Noah.
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The only person in the world who knew exactly who Flora really was.
👉 And the one secret Isaac had never discovered was that Flora's marriage had never been her only identity.
