After He Took It All
It was the final, perfect piece of evidence to close the case.
"She played us all," I muttered, a dark, twisted laugh bubbling up in my throat. "She played the Chairman, she played Linda, and she played me like a damn piano."
I felt this weird mix of pride and betrayal. I was her husband. We were supposed to be a team, even if it was just a contract. But she didn't trust me enough to tell me.
Or maybe she knew that for the performance to be believable, my grief had to be real. She needed the world to see the "ruthless Axel Ferdinez" lose his mind, because that was the only thing that would convince the Chairman that she was truly gone.
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