“Mrs. Sterling. The postnuptial agreement from the safe.”
Five years. A fifth wedding anniversary at a three-Michelin-starred French restaurant in Manhattan. Vanessa’s executive assistant placed the divorce papers in front of her.
Five years ago, the day Patrick Sterling, CEO of Sterling Group, had married Vanessa at City Hall, he’d wanted to prove his devotion. He’d had his lawyers draft a postnuptial agreement. Signed it. Locked it in the penthouse safe.
If he ever cheated, Vanessa could sign the papers and walk. No questions. No negotiations.
She signed quickly.
Her gaze drifted to the empty seat across from her. The candle flickered. She felt nothing.
“Take this to Howard,” she said. “Then call the Ritz-Carlton. Book the wedding setup.”
Her assistant froze. “Whose names should I put down?”
“Patrick and Seraphina.”
The Second Marriage Gift Chapter 49 Ten years later. Zurich. Switzerland. A trust-fund handover procedure. Patrick had been granted rare leave from the sanatorium. A few days. He sat in the lobby bar of a luxury hotel. Black coffee. Alone. Then he froze. A woman. A face he knew in his bones. Vanessa. Lucas. A […]
The Second Marriage Gift Chapter 48 They talked for a long while. Then hung up. A knock on the glass door. Lucas walked in. Impeccable suit. But he was holding a pink box. Red velvet cupcakes. The bakery near Columbia. Flown in from Manhattan. He set them on her desk. “Just arrived from New York.”
The Second Marriage Gift Chapter 47 She’d just signed off on an acquisition. The encrypted satellite phone rang. Emily. “Vanessa. Karma delivered.” Her voice was pure satisfaction. “Seraphina. Patrick snapped her spine. Severed the nerves. She’ll spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair. Catheter. The whole thing.” Vanessa’s fingers paused on the keyboard.
The Second Marriage Gift Chapter 46 She heard herself. The fatal admission. Her voice died in her throat. Silence. Absolute. Every Wall Street shark and socialite in the room stopped breathing. Patrick’s hands froze mid-air. His face. Nothing human left. “You sent Justin to kill Vanessa.” She shook her head. Crawling backward. Blood everywhere. “No…
The Second Marriage Gift Chapter 45 He hurled her off. She hit the floor. He pulled out his phone. In front of everyone. Speakerphone. Dialed Dr. Harrison. Their private fertility specialist. The doctor’s voice. Reluctant. Echoing through the hall. “Mr. Sterling… at the time of your results, Mrs. Sterling came to me privately. She begged
The Second Marriage Gift Chapter 44 Getting the baby’s DNA sample had been tricky. At first. But Seraphina, at her core, was a vicious parvenu. Society looked down on her. And behind closed doors, she treated the hired nanny like a slave. Verbal abuse. Tantrums. Emily’s private investigator had barely found the woman. Before he
The Second Marriage Gift Chapter 43 Months later. A luxury private maternity hospital in Manhattan. Seraphina gave birth. A boy. Patrick stood outside the room. Looked through the glass once. Didn’t enter. Turned and walked away. Seraphina screamed after him. “You’re not even going to hold your son?” He paused. The look he gave her
The Second Marriage Gift Chapter 42 Seraphina screamed. The phone dropped. She didn’t know, of course. Justin had died the same day as Vanessa’s grand funeral. Vanessa, on the day of her staged death, had asked Lucas’s hackers to send the Boston patriarch a file. Every piece of evidence. The murder-for-hire. The crypto transfers. No
The Second Marriage Gift Chapter 41 “This is your punishment for destroying the company’s reputation. Remember this. The Sterling family tolerates ruthless capitalists. What we do not tolerate is a fool who cannot control himself and damages the entire family’s interests.” Patrick’s eyes were empty. He lowered his head. Five years. Stripped of power. In
The Second Marriage Gift Chapter 40 The old man watched his grandson. Sighed. His eyes went cold. Patrick had been his favorite. His heir. Now he was a suicide risk over a scandal of his own making. He ordered the security detail. “Clean him up. Shave him. Put him in a proper suit. Bring him
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