twisted into an ugly sneer. "You delusional bitch! You don't pay the mortgage,

ing in the morning light as she swung it straight

finished t

eak-human reflexes, Martha's sluggish, arrogant s

ed around Martha's wr

in shock. "Let go of

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re to the joint, and shoved her forward with all her new strength. Martha flew backward, her shou

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oom. It was a full-force, devastating slap. Chloe's head snapped to the side, her body

uffled, shocked sobbing. She clutched her face, her

r expression as cold and unyi

her voice dripping with v

ll is going

with rage. He took in the scene-his mother groaning on the floor, his sister crying with

her. "What did you do to my family? You're done! I'm c

imply walked over to her walk-in closet, opened the hi

e bed. It landed with

," Elena s

fusion. He looked at the folder

of my own assets. You keep your debt. Sign them, and you walk

hink you can scare me? You're nothing without me,

e to hide your offshore accounts in the Caymans?" Elena inte

color instantly dr

the Vanguard project at your company? The money you've been funneling into a shell corpor

opped groaning. Both of them st

eyes wide with sheer, unadulterated

"I have the routing numbers. I have the forged invoices. I have the emails between you and David. All I have to do is

m falling. If Vanguard found out, he wouldn't just be fired. He would be go

hough his trembling voice gave him awa

minutes. Sign the papers, transfer the joint liquid cash into my

h sickening clarity that the woman he married was gone. The person standing in f

pen from the nightstand. He flipped to the last

in

en only Elena could see

y severed toxic karma ties. Fate alt

. A real, ge

e ten minutes to pack your clothes. If you are not out of my house by the time I

of the bedroom, leaving the three of

she now fully owned, she checked her banking app. Ro

ce read:

s, she needed millions. And she knew exactly how to get them. Money was about to

console table. It was time to go m