The Baby Clause
A diamond the size of a small country weighing down her left hand like it was a badge of victory.
Her voice rolled through the room, sweet, sharp, deliberate, as she detailed the itinerary for our upcoming engagement gala. A half-million-dollar circus designed to convince the world we were in love, aligned, and altruistic. That I was still the ruthless visionary SterlingTech needed, just with a smile softened by diamond cufflinks and a socially vetted fiancée.
That the man who ruled boardrooms now came with a curated heart.