Chapter 8 - Sarah Plans Her Vicious Retaliation With Legal Help
Across town in a sleek downtown high-rise law office, Sarah paced across the plush wool carpet like a caged tiger.
Her burgundy pantsuit was slightly wrinkled, and her manicured fingers twirled a diamond-encrusted bracelet in blind agitation.
Seated behind a massive mahogany desk was Victor Thorne, a notoriously ruthless attorney known for destroying domestic opponents.
“You mean to tell me a municipal family court judge signed an ex-parte restraining order based entirely on a home video clip?” Victor asked.
“Mark manipulated the footage! He edited out my disciplinary efforts to make me look like a monster for the courts!” Sarah lied furiously.
Victor adjusted his wire-rimmed glasses, leaning back in his leather executive chair with a cynical, calculating smirk.
“It doesn't matter whether the footage was edited or not; the judge saw physical roughness on a toddler, and that’s a PR nightmare,” Victor noted.
“I want my house back, I want half his corporate assets, and I want sole custody to humiliate him publicly,” Sarah hissed.
“If we want to break Mark Bennett, we can't fight him on child welfare grounds; we have to attack his business and finances,” Victor advised.
“What kind of attack? He’s a partner in a major architectural engineering firm with impeccable financial standing,” Sarah countered.
“Impeccable on paper, perhaps. But every successful architect has zoning loopholes, secondary LLC accounts, or tax adjustments,” Victor smiled.
He opened a laptop computer, beginning to type rapidly while searching public corporate registry databases for vulnerabilities.
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“We’ll file a multi-million-dollar countersuit for defamation, emotional trauma, and malicious prosecution of a spouse,” Victor outlined.
Sarah’s eyes gleamed with cold, venomous satisfaction as she envisioned destroying her former husband’s professional life completely.
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