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HIS MISTRESS, MY REVENGE Book 2: Chapter 67: Why Her?
Amelia's POVThe judge did not resume that afternoon.She adjourned inside the fifteen minute recess. She ordered the recording sealed as evidence, referred the entire matter to the United States Attorney with the specific quiet language a federal judge uses when she has already decided how a case is going to end, and scheduled a continuation for the following Thursday, pending the appearance of the named respondent, Richard Blackwood.Nathan filed the extradition request that evening.Swiss authorities acted faster than any of us had expected. Richard's Monaco accounts had already been frozen in the wake of Ruth Aoki's article. His Zurich residence had been searched by Interpol inside forty eight hours of the courtroom recording being released to the international press. He was arrested at a private airfield the following Monday, attempting to board a chartered jet to a jurisdiction that had no extradition treaty with the United States.He was in New York by Wednesday.He was in the
HIS MISTRESS, MY REVENGE Book 2: Chapter 66: The Recording
Damien's POVShe looked at the opposing counsel. She looked at Nathan. She looked at the small silver device Nathan had already produced from an interior pocket and was holding, screen down, on the ledge of the witness box in front of me. Then she looked at me."Mr. Sinclair. Is the individual on this recording the same individual currently identified as a coconspirator in the federal filing before this court.""Yes, Your Honor.""Is that individual represented by counsel.""He is, Your Honor. His counsel was formally notified of this exhibit at nine o'clock this morning. Notice is on file with the clerk.""Play it."I picked up the device. I unlocked it with my thumb. I set it on the ledge in front of the microphone, and I pressed play with the specific quiet of a man who had spent ten days hoping the recording would never be needed and now understood that the fact he had needed it, on this exact afternoon, was the entire point of having made it.Marcus's voice filled the courtroom.
HIS MISTRESS, MY REVENGE Book 2: Chapter 65: The Courtroom
The federal filing landed at noon. The summons landed at three. The hearing was scheduled for the following Monday, expedited by the specific quiet weight of a courtroom that had already read Ruth Aoki's article and had watched every clip of my press conference twice.I did not sleep much that week.On Monday morning, I walked into Federal Court in a grey suit with a matte finish, no visible logo, no jewellery except the ring Ethan had given me seventeen years earlier. Nathan was on my left. Sophia was on my right. Olivia was two steps behind me carrying a wheeled briefcase that contained the paper version of every argument we intended to make, in the specific belief, held by every good general counsel in the country, that a judge who cannot lift the evidence off the table will be less inclined to dismiss it.The gallery was full. Every reporter Ruth had tipped off, plus half the ones who had been on the other side of Richard's story a week ago. I did not look at them.The opposing co
HIS MISTRESS, MY REVENGE Book 2: Chapter 64: She Speaks
I sat down in the chair.I did not adjust the microphone. I did not smile. I did not wait for the room to quiet, because a woman who waits for a room to quiet is telling the room she needs its permission to begin, and I had not walked into that atrium at ten oh one in the morning to ask anyone in it for permission.I waited three seconds.The room quieted anyway."Good morning. My name is Amelia Carter Vale. I built this company. I am the chief executive of it. I am the majority shareholder of it. And I am a wife, a mother, and a woman currently in the second trimester of a pregnancy. I would like you to note the order in which I chose to describe myself. It matters."I let that sit in the room for a beat."An hour ago, a private citizen in Zurich published a fabricated laboratory report and delivered a rehearsed televised statement alleging an affair, a false paternity, and a pattern of deception in my marriage. I am not going to spend a single sentence of this press conference addre
HIS MISTRESS, MY REVENGE Book 2: Chapter 63: The World Turns Against Her
Ethan hung up.He looked at me. I looked at him. We did not speak for a second, because there was nothing to say, and speaking would have delayed by twelve seconds the thing we already knew we were going to do, which was watch the world remember who it had always been about a woman like me.I turned on the television.Richard Blackwood was already on it.A three minute clip a Zurich outlet had leaked ahead of the live broadcast. Richard, silver haired, seated in a paneled room, alleging in careful precise sentences that Amelia Carter Vale had been engaged in a long term affair with her ex-husband, that the child she was carrying was the product of it, and that a Zurich clinic had confirmed it via a discarded prenatal record.He said Damien's name three times in the three minute clip.He said Ethan's name once, in the specific tone of voice a man uses when he wants a name in a room without being accused of using it, and he said the phrase pattern of deception in a way that told me his
HIS MISTRESS, MY REVENGE Book 2: Chapter 62: The Pregnancy Scandal
I did not react.I did not, for a full second, allow my face to do the thing my body wanted it to do, because I had spent seventeen years learning that the first reaction to bad news is a currency somebody is always trying to collect, and I was not going to spend a single coin of mine at eleven forty seven at night on a phone call."Ruth. Say the whole thing. What is he claiming, what is the evidence, and where is the leak coming from.""He is claiming that the pregnancy is the result of an affair, that Ethan is not the father, and that a private DNA sample obtained from a discarded prenatal record confirms it. He is producing a laboratory report, purportedly from a Zurich clinic, dated three weeks ago, that names a third party as the biological father. The report is fabricated. The clinic exists. The letterhead is real. The signature at the bottom belongs to a doctor who is on Richard's payroll and will testify to whatever he is paid to testify to. Two outlets have the story. One is
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HIS MISTRESS, MY REVENGE Chapter Two: He Came Home With Her
I am still at the table when morning comes.I did not plan to stay. At some point in the night I told myself I would get up, clear the plates, blow out what was left of the candles, go upstairs and take the blue dress off and lie down like a person with some dignity. I told myself that somewhere ar
HIS MISTRESS, MY REVENGE Chapter One: The Birthday He Forgot
The candles are still burning.Two little flames sitting in the center of the dining table. I have been watching them for a while now. Not because they are beautiful, but because watching them gives me something to do other than check the door.The food went cold an hour ago. The wine I opened at s
HIS MISTRESS, MY REVENGE Chapter Five: The Baby He Wanted Gone
Sophia arrived within the hour of me calling her, walked through the curtain still in her work clothes, sat down beside me and took my hand and did not say I told you so even though she had every right to.Damien did not come back.Not that afternoon. Not that evening. Sophia was the one who stayed
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