Chapter 3 - The Deeper Betrayal Revealed
The room went so quiet that the hum of the server racks sounded like a deafening roar.
Khloe’s head snapped up, her blue eyes wide with absolute, breathless horror as she stared at her husband of four years.
“What did you just say, Marcus?” Dr. Vance asked, stepping toward his nephew-in-law with his fists clenched tightly at his sides.
“I said delete the footage,” Marcus repeated, his voice completely devoid of emotion, as if he were ordering a coffee.
“If this video leaks to the press, Thorne Capital loses four billion dollars in institutional funding by morning.”
“My wife is fine, the baby’s heart rate is stable, and Isabella is going to leave the country quietly tonight.”
Isabella let out a gasping, triumphant laugh from behind the security guards, smoothing down her crimson dress with smug satisfaction.
“You hear that, Dr. Vance?” Isabella sneered, her arrogant demeanor instantly returning. “Marcus protects what actually matters.”
Khloe set her cup of water down on the desk, her hands no longer shaking as a cold, dangerous stillness settled over her soul.
She looked at Marcus—the man she had built a life with, the man who had held her while she cried through two failed IVF cycles.
He wasn't trying to protect the company; he was trying to protect himself.
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Because Khloe knew what was stored in the encrypted folder on her personal laptop back at their Greenwich estate.
The four billion dollars in institutional funding wasn't coming from Wall Street investors; it was coming from Isabella’s father, Senator Rossi.
