Chapter 5

Noah banked on the authority of our fourteen-year marriage to legitimize his public ambush, demanding I sacrifice Lucy to the cameras just to preserve his pristine family image.

By bringing his private contractors to drag his sister away, he utterly shattered his old promise to stand with me against his family's cruelty, choosing his inherited status over my dignity.

I pressed the console button to unlock just one narrow side panel of the glass vestibule, refusing to open the main gates for the grand surrender he had orchestrated.

Instead, I signaled the string quartet rehearsing in the corner to stop…