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I was the wife he kept hidden for eight years. Tonight, in front of two hundred guests, he asked me to step aside-for another woman. And the baby in her arms wore his name stitched in gold thread. I didn't cry. I didn't beg. I smiled, handed him his favorite cigar, and walked out. He thinks he won. He doesn't know I'm the only one who knows where every dirty dollar of his empire sits. He doesn't know I held the line for him on freezing docks while he built his new life. He doesn't know the baby he's so proud of once called me "Mama." Three years ago, he promised me a wedding in front of the world. Tonight, I'm going to show him exactly what he lost. But first-I need to find out who really killed my mother. And why the man who married me was never really mine to begin with.