The heavy titanium cuffs clicked shut around Evelyn’s manicured wrists with a sharp, unforgiving ring.The sound seemed to echo across the entire twelve-acre lawn, drowning out the roar of the Atlantic surf."Alexander! Look at me!" Evelyn shrieked, thrashing against the grip of the two Arctic operators. Her tailored Chanel jacket tore at the shoulder seam, exposing her trembling collarbone. "I am your wife! I gave you twelve years of devotion! You cannot let this bastard girl drag me away in front of our peers!"Alexander Vance did not shout. He did not rush forward.The sixty-year-old titan of global finance looked down at the broken pearls scattered like teeth across the stone floorboards. When he finally raised his head, the warmth in his eyes had turned into an abyss of cold, glacial fury."Twelve years," Alexander spoke, his voice gravelly and hollowed out by betrayal. "Twelve years you shared my bed while paying the man who crippled my daughter."He stepped up to the edge of th
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