Chapter 1 - The Slap heard Around the Room
The luxurious anniversary banquet hall was bathed in warm candle lighting, surrounded by towering white flower arrangements, champagne towers, and a massive multi-tiered cake.
Suddenly, a violent crack echoed through the grand ballroom, instantly silencing the hundred elite guests in attendance.
Landon—a handsome man in his mid-30s with slicked dark hair, wearing an elegant black suit—abruptly slapped his wife across the face.
Elise, heavily pregnant in her late 20s, staggered backward against a banquet table, sending crystal champagne glasses shattering onto the floor. She wore a sparkling beige embroidered maternity gown, her hands instinctively cradling her baby bump as she sat on the floor in utter shock.
"Know your place!" Landon hissed, his voice cold, harsh, and dripping with arrogance.
Beside him stood Cleo, a mid-20s blonde woman in a glamorous red silk strap dress, clinging tightly to Landon’s arm with a fake, frightened look on her face.
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Elise cupped her red, swollen cheek, her eyes trembling as tears spilled over her lashes.
👉 What drove a husband to publicly humiliate his pregnant wife in front of the city's highest society?
