Chapter 7 - Shattered Illusions
The senior partners scrambled to read the documents, their eyes widening in pure horror.
"Justin, what the hell is this?" his boss yelled, slamming a fist on the table.
Justin began to stutter, frantically trying to deny the glaring evidence of his massive embezzlement.
Vanessa placed her hand on her flat stomach, putting on her best victim performance.
"You can't do this to us, Clara!
Think of our baby!" she cried out, shedding dramatic, fake tears.
I turned my attention slowly to Vanessa, feeling absolutely zero pity for the woman who had struck me.
I reached back into the briefcase and pulled out the blue medical folder.
I tossed it directly onto Vanessa’s lap.
"I am thinking of the baby, Vanessa.
The one that doesn't exist," I said with a lethal calm.
Vanessa opened the folder, and her fake tears instantly stopped.
She stared at her own genuine medical history, her hands trembling violently.
Justin snatched the papers from her hands, scanning the official documentation of her infertility.
"What is this?
What does this mean?" Justin demanded, his voice cracking with panic.
"It means your pregnant mistress has been lying to you, Justin," Nathan said, stepping into the room.
"She bought fake ultrasounds online to secure her place on your life insurance policy," I added.
Justin slowly turned to look at Vanessa, betrayal and realization shattering his face.
Vanessa scrambled out of her chair, backing away from him like a trapped animal.
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"I only did it because I loved you!" she screamed defensively.
Justin looked like a man who had just realized he had voluntarily jumped out of a plane without a parachute.
