Attorney Rebecca raised her hand. “No. Better not to answer at all. Let him keep writing.”

And Ryan kept writing. He sent voice messages. In one of them, his cold voice said, “Emily, stop pretending to be the victim. You signed the papers. Lily stays with me whenever I want.

And tell your billionaire not to get involved, because I can sell what I know about him too.”

Noah’s jaw tightened.

Then came the twist no one expected. Ryan hadn’t only been investigating Emily. He’d also tried to sell false information about Noah Whitman to a digital magazine: that he had a secret daughter, that he used vulnerable women to repair his public image, that he flew without bodyguards because he was bankrupt.

The airplane photo fit perfectly into his lie.