The Billionaires Greatest Regret
the prosecutor began, "can you describe for the court the events of the night of your car accident, five years ago?"
Vivienne recounted it carefully, the truck, the emergency room, the phone call that never connected, Marcus's cold refusal to interrupt Roman for anything less than a genuine emergency, the twins she hadn't yet known she was carrying, the isolation of that night settling over the courtroom in a silence broken only by the occasional scratch of a reporter's pen.
"And when did you learn the accident was not, in fact, an accident at all?"
"Three weeks ago," Vivienne said. "At a maritime gala, in front of two hundred witnesses, when Vanessa Sterling announced it publicly herself."