Chapter 4: The Puppet Master
Julian scrambled to call Elena, his fingers trembling so hard he kept dropping the phone. When she finally answered, her voice was calm, serene, and terrifyingly detached.
"Why?" he roared. "I gave you everything! I built this!"
"You built nothing, Julian," Elena replied, her voice steady. "I married a man I thought was ambitious, but I found out he was just greedy. So, I let you be greedy. I let you think you were winning. I let you build the foundation of a house of cards, and then I simply pulled the bottom card."
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"I’ll kill you for this!" he screamed.
"No, you won't," she countered. "Because the police are currently pulling into your driveway to investigate the embezzlement you committed under your own name. Every bribe, every shell company, every piece of 'stolen' capital—it's all on the ledger. You didn't evict me, Julian. You evicted yourself from reality."
