Chapter 2: The Truth Behind the Engagement
Chapter 2: The Truth Behind the Engagement
Minutes later, the footage played on the ballroom's giant projector screen.
No one spoke.
No one dared.
The video showed a parking garage the night before Clara's accident.
Vanessa entered.
A few minutes later, another man joined her.
Ethan's chief financial officer.
Richard Kane.
The recording had audio.
And every word echoed through the ballroom.
"If Clara dies, Ethan inherits everything," Richard said.
Vanessa smiled.
"And after we marry, so do I."
Gasps filled the room.
Ethan looked physically sick.
Then the next clip appeared.
A black SUV following Clara's car along the mountain road.
The impact.
The crash.
The vehicle speeding away.
Vanessa screamed.
"Turn it off!"
Nobody moved.
Noah, still in Clara's arms, looked confused.
"Mommy, why is that lady crying?"
Clara kissed his forehead.
"Because some people cry when the truth finds them."
Police officers who had been hired for security at the event immediately stepped forward.
Vanessa tried to run.
She made it three steps.
Then the handcuffs clicked around her wrists.
The crowd watched in stunned silence.
The perfect engagement party had transformed into an arrest scene.
But Ethan wasn't watching Vanessa.
He was staring at Clara.
At the woman he had mourned for two years.
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At the woman standing only a few feet away.
Alive.
