There would be interviews, document preservation, and a formal process.

Marlene could no longer settle the matter by changing the subject at dinner.

PART 12

The first public sign came from Brielle.

She uploaded a new video claiming I had married a secret billionaire to engineer a hostile takeover of my father’s company.

The captions were dramatic.

The evidence was nonexistent.

Within hours, local gossip accounts were repeating it as if the courthouse had been a carefully orchestrated trap.