Chapter 17 - The Husband Discovers the Brutal Betrayal by His Mistress
Alexander stumbled back into the hollow, echoing master bedroom to pack whatever clothes he had left.
His phone—previously buzzing nonstop with business calls—remained dead silent except for a single text notification.
He unlocked the screen with trembling fingers to find a final message from his former mistress, Chloe.
“Don't bother calling me, Alexander; my new benefactor paid off my legal fees, and I’m on a flight to Monaco. Good luck with your bankruptcy!”
Alexander dropped his phone onto the hardwood floor, the glass screen shattering into a spiderweb of cracks.
The woman he had traded his marriage and his integrity for had abandoned him the second the money vanished.
He fell to his knees beside the edge of the king-sized bed, finally breaking down into uncontrollable, bitter tears.
It was the exact same posture he had demanded of Victoria in that very kitchen just twenty-four hours earlier.
Karma had returned with terrifying precision, leaving him broken, bankrupt, and utterly alone in the world.
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The heavy oak doors swung open as federal agents entered to escort him off the property once and for all.
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