I leaned in, my voice dropping to a register of cold, absolute menace I hadn’t used in a decade.
“Shut your mouth, Madeline. Shut it right now, or I swear to God I will dismantle your entire life before we reach the parking lot.”
She froze, her eyes wide with sudden, primal fear. I stood up, my ridiculously expensive suit suddenly feeling like a straitjacket.
Turning my back on my furious wife and the wreckage of her fake prestige, I stepped out into the aisle.
I marched toward the stage. Toward the reckoning I had dodged for thirteen years, completely unaware that in the opposite tier, a knowing, devastating smile had already set the trap for me…
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