A strange peace moved through Camille. For years, she had heard Marc minimize her work, smile at her achievements, call her caution coldness and her intelligence distrust. Now the very intelligence he had dismissed was the reason he would not succeed in destroying her.

“No, Marc,” she said calmly. “I’m doing this because you attempted to misappropriate my assets, manipulate my signature, and use our son as an unwilling witness to your lie.”

He stared at her with hatred.

“You’re going to regret this.”

Camille held his gaze.

“The only thing I regret is trusting you for so long.”

PART 3

When the police took Marc away, he kept repeating that it was all a misunderstanding. Élodie cried in the hallway, insisting she knew nothing.