CHAPTER 3: “THE REAL BETRAYAL”
Vanessa never made it to the door.
The second officer stopped her immediately.
Victor looked stunned.
"What is happening?"
The investigators spent hours searching the house.
By evening, the truth came out.
For nearly two years, someone had been stealing money from Victor's company.
Millions of dollars.
Victor immediately blamed Vanessa.
"She handled the accounts!"
Vanessa burst into tears.
"You're lying!"
She pointed directly at Victor.
"You told me to do it!"
Victor's face changed instantly.
"Shut up."
"No!" Vanessa shouted. "You promised we'd be together after the divorce!"
I felt sick.
The affair had been real.
But so had the fraud.
As investigators dug deeper, they discovered that Victor had secretly opened multiple accounts using fake vendor names.
Vanessa had helped him.
But she wasn't the mastermind.
Victor was.
The worst part?
He had planned everything.
The affair.
The fake divorce threats.
Even moving Vanessa into the house.
He intended to hide assets before filing for divorce.
He just never expected the police to arrive first.
Three months later, Victor accepted a plea deal.
Vanessa testified against him.
She avoided prison.
Victor didn't.
The day he was sentenced, he looked at me across the courtroom.
"I'm sorry."
I simply nodded.
"I know."
Then I walked away.
A year later, I was sitting in my living room, drinking coffee in peace.
Alone.
Happy.
My phone buzzed.
A text from an unknown number.
It was Vanessa.
"You won. I hope you know he cheated on me too."
I stared at the message for a moment.
Then I deleted it.
Because by then, I understood something important.
I hadn't won Victor.
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I had escaped him.
THE END.
