Holding the remote tightly, Casper stood before the massive seventy-inch screen, unable to hide his seething anger.

He had gone to great lengths to deploy people to find the killer for her. And what does she do? She checks into a hotel with Aaron.

She hadn't just tarnished her own reputation; she dragged his name, the Welton family's name, and even the Martin family's name through the mud. Once it broke, this scandal shot to the top of every major media outlet.

Hooking up with a married woman, and not just any woman-Casper's wife was enough to give Aaron's father a heart attack, landing him in the ICU. Welton International's stock nosedived, delaying the subsidiary's IPO, and the Martin family's business took a hit, too.

Casper had Eliza cornered, his thigh wedged between her legs, the whole scene brimming with intimacy.

"Mrs. Welton, you sure know how to have a good time. You bury your mom one day, and the next, you're off to a hotel. Now, all of Falconridge knows that my wife's been fooling around with the Martin family's golden boy. You're really something, Mrs. Welton."

She shook her head vigorously. "That's not how it happened."

"I didn't go to a hotel with him," she insisted.

face twisted in fury. "You've been caught red-handed, and you

listen to reason. Eliza realized too late that she had been set up. But she knew Casper wouldn't

don't believe me, there's nothing I

mean to you?" he

Casper had never respected

betray our marriage. I've tried my best to

tightly, forcing her to look into his eyes. "You don't love me anymore so does that mean our marriage is disposable? You can just go to a hotel with any man and

thought, she wouldn't have suffered so much their marriage. She wasn't as enamored with physical intimacy he

was, at best,

divorce papers," she said, looking up at him. "Then you can tell the media why I was seen at a hotel with another

its meaning

that he couldn't find his

divorced her because he hadn't tired of her yet. In Falconridge, young and beautiful girls were never

or big-name

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