Chapter 17

The divorce signing came three months later.

Everything had exploded in those months. The stock transfers, Sarah defecting to our competitor, the bigamy scandal breaking, Claire being destroyed on social media, Nathan losing control of his company, the divorce battle…

Dad orchestrated it all while I found peace studying with an artist in the mountains.

When Dad said it was over, I couldn’t believe my scholarly father had managed it.

His expression turned complex. “Nathan let it happen. Some of it… he orchestrated himself.”

At the courthouse, Nathan limped in on a cane.

The contrast between us was stark my time away had brought back my color, my life. He looked hollow,

diminished.

staring at his

without protest, his eyes never leaving

left, I had to know: “Why

see you,” he said quietly.

“What?”

lose it all just to see

slightly. “Next month at the settlement hearing, my

me broken.”

feel his gaze burning into my

Claire appeared in

changed – the fragile victim act replaced by something

destroyed everything,” she

studied her

yourself. You

him first! You’re the one

face twisted with rage.

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