Chapter 5

"Marcus, you don't understand... she provoked me, she's trying to ruin our entire life and tear us apart!" Victoria stammered, her voice cracking with unhinged panic.
She lunged forward, trying to grasp his arm with pleading, desperate fingers, but Marcus pulled away as if her touch were toxic poison.
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Marcus stepped forward instead, closing the distance between them with a predatory grace that made Victoria shrink back against the mahogany wall.
His eyes locked onto hers with a chilling intensity that cut straight through her web of manipulative lies and fabricated victimhood.