Chapter 3 - The Dark Intentions
The silence in the foyer was so absolute that I could hear my own heartbeat thumping against my ribs.
I stared at the man I had slept next to for over a decade, feeling a chilling wave of nausea wash over me.
A forged life insurance policy worth five million dollars changed this from a simple corporate theft to something entirely sinister.
Arthur stumbled backward, bumping into the decorative hallway mirror as if the reflection had physically shoved him.
He frantically waved his hands in the air, swearing on his mother's life that he knew nothing about any insurance policy.
He claimed that Brooke handled all of their external paperwork and that she must have forged the documents.
I refused to let his pathetic excuses insult my intelligence for another second.
I ordered him to leave my house immediately before I called the police and had him arrested for trespassing.
Arthur did not argue, turning on his heel and sprinting toward his car like a terrified coward.
I locked the deadbolt and immediately picked up the phone to instruct Marcus to hire a private security detail for me.
The realization that my cheating husband might have actually planned to murder me made my hands shake with rage.
I needed to know exactly how deep this toxic rabbit hole went before I made my next move.
I logged into the hidden security cameras I had secretly installed in Arthur's home office three weeks ago.
I watched the recorded footage from the night before, skipping to the hours just before he had arrived at my house.
The screen displayed Arthur and Brooke having a heated argument over a stack of financial documents.
Brooke was violently pointing at a printed ledger, her face twisted into an ugly mask of pure greed.
I cranked up the volume, pressing my ear closer to the computer speaker to catch every whispered word.
Brooke told Arthur that they needed the five million dollars immediately to pay off a massive debt.
She warned him that if they did not get the money by the end of the month, the cartel would take the twins.
My breath hitched in my throat as the sheer gravity of their dangerous situation finally clicked into place.
Brooke had not just manipulated Arthur into stealing my corporate funds.
She was using my husband as a desperate shield to protect herself from incredibly dangerous criminals.
I quickly downloaded the video file, knowing this was the ultimate leverage I needed to destroy them both.
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Just as the download reached ninety-nine percent, a loud crash echoed from the back of my house.
Someone had just smashed through the glass of my sliding patio door.
