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.

his usually handsome face twisted in fury. "You've been caught red-handed, and you still deny

one to listen to reason. Eliza realized too late that she had been set up. But she

believe me, there's nothing

me, what does our marriage mean to you?"

Casper had never respected their marriage, yet here he

done anything to betray our marriage. I've tried my best to make it

me anymore so does that mean our marriage is disposable? You can just go to a hotel

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

was, at best, a mere

papers," she said, looking up at him. "Then you can

marriage had lost its meaning long

furious that he couldn't

her because he hadn't tired of her yet. In Falconridge, young and beautiful girls were never in short supply, whether

big-name

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