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Chapter 5: The Reckoning

The divorce proceedings were a spectacle of public humiliation for the Sterling family. Liam looked like a ghost, his suit hanging off his frame, his reputation shredded. He tried to claim I was the one who had framed him, but my legal team—the best in the country—didn't just present evidence; they presented a systematic dismantling of his entire life.

He didn't just lose the townhouse; he lost his career, his family’s remaining assets, and his freedom. As he was led out of the courthouse, not to an asylum, but to a holding cell for white-collar crime, he looked at me, eyes wide with the realization of what he had truly lost.

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"I loved you, Chloe," he whispered, a final, pathetic plea.

I didn't even stop walking. "You loved the idea of a bank account, Liam. You never knew who I was."

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