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Chapter 7: FALSE TRUTHS, REAL DAMAGE

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last update Last Updated: 2024-11-20 08:28:44

DANIEL'S POV

The past few days have been a nightmare. Everywhere I turn, the media is buzzing with one question: Why did you sell his shares to Simeon Grant? It's a question I can't bring myself to answer, not to the press, not even to myself. The truth is too messy, too humiliating. It all happened so suddenly, like a tornado ripping through my carefully constructed life.

The real reason? Emma. She wants a divorce.

I’ve built my life around my image, around the reputation of being New York's most successful businessman. A divorce would destroy that. It would cost me everything—half my properties, my rank, my pride. I couldn’t let that happen.

Veronica, as always, had a plan. She told me to sell my shares and move my properties into another name. “When the divorce happens, Emma gets nothing,” she had said confidently. At the time, it seemed like a brilliant idea. But now, looking at the fallout, I’m not so sure.

Selling those shares went wrong in every possible way. Sure, I got the mo
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