Chapter 12 — You Are Already Looking at the Boss

Fifteen days later, Jonathan burst into the lobby of Ironwood Capital without an appointment, unshaven, in the same wrinkled suit he’d worn to pitch me, a man visibly coming apart.

His startup was frozen solid — the remaining funding gone, the twelve-million advance legally recalled, creditors demanding repayment on loans he’d defaulted, and the criminal case moving forward on the strength of my medical records, the eyewitnesses, and the recording from our wedding night.

He was not being destroyed by a vengeful woman.