I Brought My Little Daughter to Surprise My Husband at His Company Gala. Before We Even Reached the Elevators, His Secretary Smiled Coldly and Said, “His Wife and Son Are Waiting Upstairs.” I Quietly Covered My Daughter's Ears, Called My Third Brother, and Gave One Order That Changed Every Life in That Building: “Take It All Away.”

I stumbled back in absolute shock as the agents slammed Dominic against the wall.

Attempted murder was entirely outside the scope of Victor's financial revenge plan.

Dominic screamed in terror as the heavy steel handcuffs clicked around his wrists.

He frantically looked at Elena, begging her to call her powerful father for legal help.

Elena stepped away from him with a look of pure disgust on her beautiful face.

She coldly told the agents to take him away and claimed she had no idea what he had done.

As they dragged Dominic down the hallway, the lead agent handed me a classified file folder.

He explained that Victor had uncovered something horrific while dismantling Dominic's corporate accounts.

I opened the folder with trembling hands while the security chief watched over Sophia.

The documents proved that Dominic had hired a private mercenary group two years ago.

He had paid them to arrange a fatal car accident for my eldest brother, the United States Senator.

Dominic had wanted to eliminate the only man who occasionally audited his sketchy business deals.

My blood boiled with a rage so intense it physically hurt my chest.

I closed the folder and turned my deadly gaze toward Elena.

She was trying to quietly slip into the service elevator with her young son.

I blocked her path and asked her exactly how much she knew about the assassination plot.

She fake-cried and swore she only wanted his money, not anyone's life.

Her phone suddenly rang loudly in the tense silence of the hallway.

I snatched the phone from her hand and looked at the caller identification.

The name flashing on the screen was Victor Sterling.

I answered the call, utterly confused as to why my brother was calling my husband's mistress.

Victor's cold voice echoed through the speaker, telling me to step away from Elena immediately.

“Which daughter is yours?” should have been a harmless question

The first wineglass shattered at 8:07 p.m

The moment the mafia boss’s wife called me “an illiterate servant,”

He calmly informed me that Elena was not actually Dominic's secret lover.

She was an undercover corporate spy hired by a rival syndicate to completely destroy the Sterling family from the inside.

Chapter 5 - The Ambush