Chapter 4 - The Immediate Eviction
The air inside the NICU felt suffocatingly heavy. Dominic’s mind raced as he tried to process the catastrophic reality unfolding before him. For three years, he believed Audrey was an orphan from a small Midwest town, completely dependent on his corporate salary. He had built his firm's prestige by claiming access to Bennett Health networks, never realizing his own quiet wife was the sole heir to the entire fortune.
"Mr. Bennett, please!" Dominic stammered, his arrogant posture collapsing as he took a desperate step forward. "This is a massive misunderstanding! Audrey and I just had a private marital dispute—"
"A dispute?" Arthur’s voice boomed through the room, echoing off the glass walls. "You brought a mistress into a specialized intensive care unit to harass my granddaughter two days after she nearly died giving birth to your bloodline!"
Arthur turned sharply to the hospital's Managing Director, who was trembling in his pristine lab coat. "Director Vance, terminate Dominic Vance’s executive parking access, revoke his board privileges, and clear his firm’s offices from our medical towers within thirty minutes."
"Right away, Chairman Bennett!" the Director responded instantly, pulling out his radio.
"Wait! You can't do that!" Natalie shrieked, clutching her designer handbag tightly. "Dominic is the managing partner of Vance Legal! We have contracts!"
Arthur glanced down at Natalie with absolute disgust, his eyes falling on the coat she was wearing. "And as for you, young lady... take off my granddaughter’s coat before I have security arrest you for grand larceny on hospital premises."
Natalie’s face burned bright red with shame. She hurriedly unbuttoned the ivory cashmere coat, throwing it onto a nearby chair, standing shiver-less in her fitted dress.
Dominic grabbed the edge of Arthur’s sleeve. "Arthur, please! Think of our business alliance! My firm handles Vance-Bennett legal distribution!"
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Audrey stood up from her chair, walking slowly over to her husband. She looked him dead in the eye, her posture regal and completely unfazed.
"The alliance ended the moment you signed that folder, Dominic," Audrey said quietly. "Security, escort them out."
