Blurb：
When surveillance footage exposes her husband Alaric Stryker's affair with analyst Tessa Ellison - including a $3M Porsche 911 Carrera S bought with her funds - Isadora Barrett ignites a cold war. This billionaire heiress uncovers lipstick-stained lies spanning Four Seasons hotel receipts, smuggled Swiss watches, and a French castle ambush. Armed with a private investigator's dossier and her brother Christian Barrett's legal arsenal, Isadora weaponizes marital betrayal into corporate destruction. From Aegis Logistics boardroom clashes to a showdown at her ancestral Chateau de Corbeau Bleu, discover how a cufflink discrepancy unravels a decade-long facade. Perfect for fans of wealthy betrayal tales featuring diamond-hard heroines turning infidelity into annihilation.
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§01The video had no sound.
It didn't need any.
Isadora Barrett sat alone in the cavernous living room, the only light coming from the tablet resting on the marble coffee table.
On the screen, a surveillance feed played on a silent loop.
A Porsche dealership.
Her husband, Alaric Stryker, was handing a black credit card to a salesman.
The card was hers.
Standing beside him, a young woman with long, dark hair beamed, her hand linked possessively through his arm.
Tessa Ellison.
An analyst from his company.
The cold light of the screen reflected in Isadora's eyes, two chips of ice.
She had suspected for three weeks.
It wasn’t a sudden revelation, a dramatic confrontation.
It was a quiet, cold splinter of doubt that had lodged itself in her heart.
The catalyst had been laughably small.
A cufflink.
It happened at the weekly Sunday BBQ at the Barrett residence, a tradition Alaric insisted upon as a performance of family and loyalty.
Isadora played the part of the perfect hostess, her smile never faltering.
As she handed Alaric a platter of grilled steaks, her eyes caught the glint on his wrist.
It wasn't the refined platinum from Valeriano Bespoke, the pair she had commissioned in Naples for their tenth anniversary.
It was a cheap, gaudy thing.
A plastic flower, encased in cheap metal.
One of his lieutenants, laughing, had clapped Alaric on the shoulder.
"The Boss is a true family man, but it’s our little sister-in-law who’s got the real queenly demeanor!"
Isadora’s smile didn’t waver, but a glacier formed in her chest.
She’d tilted her head, her voice light, playful.
"Oh? Does that mean there's a less regal one I should know about?"
A sudden, thick silence fell over the group.
The men exchanged panicked glances.
Alaric, ever the master of control, had simply laughed, pulling her into a one-armed hug.
"Don't listen to these idiots. In what world could there possibly be another woman worthy of being my wife?"
He had looked straight into her eyes, his own filled with a performance of unwavering devotion.
She had smiled back.
But the splinter of doubt was now firmly lodged.
§02
Later that night, long after the laughter and cigar smoke had faded, Isadora walked into their master closet.
It was a cavern of curated perfection, a testament to a shared life of immense wealth.
She walked to his dresser, her heart a cold, heavy stone in her chest.
She picked up the velvet box from Valeriano Bespoke.
Her hands were steady.
She lifted the lid.
Inside, nestled in the dark velvet, were the platinum cufflinks she had given him.
He had swapped them out.
He had worn the cheap plastic flower for his guests, for his crew.
He had put on a performance.
Then he had come in here, taken them off, and carefully put her gift back in its box, as if nothing had happened.
The quiet, meticulous nature of the deception was more chilling than any open affair.
She closed the box.
The soft click echoed the sound of a door slamming shut deep inside her.
The doubt was no longer a splinter.
It was a gaping wound.
Back in the present, sitting in the darkened living room, the video on the tablet provided the final, brutal confirmation.
It was from her private investigator.
She had hired him the morning after the BBQ.
She watched the silent loop one last time.
Tessa Ellison, beaming, accepting the keys to a new Porsche 911 Carrera S, paid for with Isadora's money.
The wound was now fatal.
Isadora picked up her phone.
She swiped past Alaric's contact photo—a smiling, sun-kissed image from their last trip to the Maldives—and dialed another number.
It connected on the first ring.
§03
A calm, familiar voice answered. "Izzy?"
Isadora’s own voice was a whisper of ice.
"Christian, it's me."
"I was wondering when you'd call," Christian Barrett said, his voice devoid of surprise.
"Send me what you have."
Isadora tapped her tablet, forwarding the encrypted email from her investigator.
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