I visited my sister’s newborn only to catch her kissing my husband—She smiled and said, ‘Our son gets his name, You keep paying for the house’

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I visited my sister’s newborn only to catch her kissing my husband—She smiled and said, ‘Our son gets his name, You keep paying for the house’

I felt my heart beating violently, but I managed to remain calm. I placed the bouquet on the table, wished them both, “Congratulations,” and walked out. They were sure that they had utterly shattered me, but what they didn’t know was my plan over the next two weeks to ruin their lives at the grand celebration they were secretly planning.

Twenty minutes later, I sat in my car and looked at the golden bracelet that had been passed down to me from my grandmother Josephine, engraved with the words: First Star. I once thought it was nothing but a pretty name. But tonight, it felt like a warning.

Then, without wasting any more time, I drove straight to Sterling and Sage—the restaurant empire I had created single-handedly.

Evelyn, my chief accountant, was already there waiting with a hot kettle of tea for me. She handed me a large brown envelope that she had been keeping safe for six weeks.

“What is this?” I asked.

“Something Gavin hoped you would never discover,” she whispered.

Even before I opened it, I recalled a strict clause my grandmother had insisted I include in my business dealings. She had forced me to add a financial betrayal clause in case I ever went into business with a spouse. Stealing company funds or forging signatures would automatically forfeit their shares, forcing a buyout at book value. Gavin had twenty-five percent of the company, and he had actually laughed while signing that document years ago.

Evelyn pushed the file closer, “Don’t go through this alone, Audrey.”

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I opened it and went through the financial documents from the past year. By the time I reached the fourteenth page, the betrayal at the hospital didn’t seem like the worst thing he had done.

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