Velvet Chains
It was nearly midnight before the celebration finally wound down, the lake dark and quiet beyond the terrace, most of the guests retired for the evening, Vivienne finally alone with her new husband beside the same window where he'd once told her, on their very first weekend here, that he wanted to marry her for real.
Her phone buzzed softly on the table, an email notification lighting up the screen, and she almost ignored it entirely until she saw the sender.
An anonymous address. No subject line. A single attachment.
She opened it with cautious, curious fingers, and felt her breath catch as an image filled the screen, a photograph, recent, clearly taken sometime that very evening, showing t