The bathroom floor was cold against my bare feet as I stared at the tiny, harmless placebo tablet resting in the palm of my hand.
/
Chapter 6 / 10
Chapter 6 - THE MISTRESS'S ABANDONMENTWithin forty-eight hours of Daniel’s arrest, the federal net widened.
Investigators raided his office, seizing his financial records, freezing his personal accounts, and subpoenaing Vanessa Crane for questioning.
The moment Vanessa realized Daniel was facing multiple felony counts with zero chance of bail, she did exactly what people of her character always do: she ran.
May you like
She hired a high-priced criminal defense lawyer to release a public statement claiming she had "no knowledge of Mr. Whitmore's marital deception" and immediately blocked his phone numbers across every platform.
Daniel sat in a federal holding cell, abandoned by his mistress, stripped of his stolen inheritance, and facing twenty-five years to life in maximum security.
