THEY HUMILIATED HIS PREGNANT EX-WIFE AT DINNER—THEN HER ONE PHONE CALL FROZE THEIR BILLION-DOLLAR EMPIRE

lied, and eventually filed for divorce, calling her “too serious to love.” He kept the name, the public image, the sympathy. Cassidy kept the control, quietly reinforced through a settlement Brendan signed without reading, eager to move on with Jessica.

That settlement contained Protocol 7.

Brendan had dismissed the legal binder as “paperwork for anxious continue reading …