Chapter 9
"Everything," the bloody man answered softly into the phone, ending the secure call with a single tap of his thumb.
He slid the black smartphone back into the interior pocket of his olive-green jacket with cold, mechanical finality.
The wedding guests began scrambling backward in blind panic, frantically pulling out their own phones to record the historic meltdown.
Live-stream feeds of the disgraced groom and the bloodied investigator began uploading to social media platforms across the country.
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Hashtags mocking the multi-million dollar wedding failure started trending globally within minutes of the initial broadcast.
The illusion of high-society perfection had been shattered permanently, leaving behind only the jagged shards of a fraudulent life.
