Chapter 5

Sylvia spent the next three weeks focused on a single mission.

She began taking the clients' wives out to lunch.

These were not the massive business dinners with ten people crowded around a table, but cozy meals shared between two or three women.

She selected the venues with meticulous care: places that were discreet, exclusive, and always impeccably private, whether a hushed dining room, a private restaurant, or the familiar quiet of her own home.

The first person Sylvia invited was Richard's wife, Grace Crane.

Grace was in her early fifties, but her glowing skin made her look ten years…