The Ashford headquarters had never looked more alive than it did that morning. Glass walls reflected the rising sun, casting sharp lines of light across the polished marble floor. Executives moved through the corridors with quiet urgency, shareholders filled the meeting floor, and lawyers arranged documents with careful precision. Everything looked official. Everything looked normal. But beneath that surface calm, something entirely different was about to unfold. A collapse. Ethan stood in the center of the boardroom like a man who had already won. His suit was immaculate, his expression calm, and his voice steady as he exchanged greetings with the company’s directors. To anyone watching, he looked like the perfect husband, the loyal caretaker of a fragile wife, the man who had sacrificed everything for love. No one in the room knew they were looking at a carefully built lie. Or perhaps they did, but not yet in full. At the far end of the room, Isabella entered. Dark glasse
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