Chapter 3 - The Locked Drawer
Three weeks before the Christmas gala, Serena had finally felt a surge of returning strength. The severe nausea and exhaustion of her second trimester had lifted, and she decided to slowly re-engage with her life.
One quiet Tuesday afternoon, while Matthias was supposedly away on an "emergency business trip to London," Serena walked into his private home office. She was simply looking for a specific tax document she needed for her personal accountant.
While searching through his massive mahogany desk, Serena noticed that the bottom right drawer was locked.
Matthias had always claimed he kept an "open door policy" with her regarding their finances. The presence of a highly secure, biometric lock on a simple desk drawer immediately triggered her razor-sharp corporate instincts.
Serena was a logistics mastermind. She didn't need Matthias's fingerprint to bypass the lock; she simply unscrewed the heavy wooden back panel of the desk, completely bypassing the security mechanism and sliding the drawer out from behind.
Inside the drawer, she didn't find tax documents.
She found a thick, black leather folder filled with highly encrypted bank statements. She found dozens of luxury hotel receipts from Paris, Milan, and Dubai—all booked during the exact dates Matthias claimed he was attending crucial industry conferences. She found the appraisal certificate for the two-million-dollar diamond necklace.
But the most devastating discovery was a drafted legal contract, signed by both Matthias and Fiona Vale. It outlined the exact timeline for liquidating Serena's primary corporate assets to fund their new rival company, strategically timed for the exact month Serena was due to give birth.
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Serena sat on the floor of the office, holding her swollen belly, reading the horrific documents. The betrayal was so absolute, so profoundly sickening, that it bypassed tears entirely and crystallized into pure, lethal rage.
👉 Read Part 4 to see how Serena planned her flawless revenge.
