Chapter 3 - The Secret Divorce
The cinematic tension in the grand living room spiked to a suffocating, paralyzing peak.
The guests backed away, parting like the Red Sea as Claire reached the bottom of the marble staircase. Her face was completely calm, calculating, and entirely devoid of human mercy.
She hadn't put on her dress uniform just to impress the party guests. She had put it on because of what she had discovered hidden in Ethan’s home office safe three nights ago.
While running a routine background security check required for her military clearance, Claire’s intelligence team had accidentally flagged a massive, highly illegal wire transfer from Ethan’s company.
Claire had cracked his safe and found the horrifying truth.
Ethan had been having an affair with a twenty-two-year-old model for two years. But that wasn't the worst part.
Inside the safe were finalized, forged divorce papers and a ruthless eviction notice. Ethan was planning to publicly serve Claire with the papers right after Noah’s birthday cake was cut. He had secretly drained their joint accounts, paid off a corrupt judge to ensure he received full custody of Noah, and planned to violently throw Claire out into the street with absolutely nothing.
He thought she was just a weak, unemployed housewife who wouldn't be able to fight back against his massive legal team.
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He thought she would just cry and surrender her son.
👉 Ethan tried to aggressively confront her, but a tiny voice from the crowd completely shattered his authority.
