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Mara's POV "Sign it."The divorce papers landed on the marble desk between us like a verdict already decided.I didn't flinch. I'd been practicing not flinching for three years, through cold silences at breakfast, holidays spent alone in a house too large for one person, nights I'd learned to stop listening for his footsteps in the hallway.Ethan Croft stood at the floor-to-ceiling window, his back to me, hands folded behind him the way he always stood when he'd already made up his mind and was simply waiting for the world to catch up. The morning light cut across the skyline behind him, turning him into a silhouette, broad-shouldered, impeccable and unreachable, to he way he'd always been."I heard you," I said."Then pick up the pen, Mara."He called me by my name, Mara, not sweetheart or even Mrs. Croft. Just my name, clipped and efficient, the way you'd address someone you were dismissing from a meeting.I pulled the papers closer and scanned the first page without reading it. My

Mara's POV The leak had a name by morning.Daniel sent it in a single text at six forty-three, no preamble, no softening: Sofia Reyes, your housekeeper's daughter. She's been on Ethan's assistant's payroll for three months.I read it twice, sitting on the edge of the bed in my temporary apartment, still in yesterday's clothes, coffee untouched on the nightstand.Sofia, twenty-two years old, shy smile, always offered to carry my dry cleaning down to the lobby.I typed back: How deep?“Deep enough, she photographed documents from your desk twice. The receipt was probably photographed before it ever reached the dry cleaner.”I set the phone down.She'd been watching me for three months, which meant Ethan's suspicion hadn't started yesterday. It hadn't started with the receipt. It had started sometime around the time I'd begun making quiet, careful preparations to leave, and someone had noticed before I thought anyone was paying attention.I picked the phone back up.“Does she know what