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

table—not to dry herself, but to wipe her phone clean of water. She moved slowly, almost carefully, as if the room no longer had power over her. That calmness unsettled Brendan more than any outburst could have.

“I asked Arthur to protect the company,” she said.

Diane let out a short laugh, but it fractured. “Protect the company from what? From us?”

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