“I can’t do that, Sir,” the guard said, letting the card fall to the pavement. “And even if I could, I suspect that card doesn’t work.”
Kaitlyn’s face went pale. “My card was declined at the airport lounge in Singapore,” she whispered. “Trevor, pay him cash.”
“I don’t have cash!” he screamed.
I watched for a moment longer, a dark satisfaction curling in my gut, before closing the app. They were homeless. They were broke. But I wasn’t done.
I had arranged a one-time, supervised entry for myself to retrieve sensitive documents from the master suite’s safe before the final handover. I needed to go there now, while they were likely arguing on the sidewalk.
When I arrived an hour later, Trevor and Kaitlyn were gone—likely to Denise’s house. I swept into the foyer, ignoring the emptiness of the rooms. The furniture had been sold with the house. It was just a shell now.
I went to the wall safe behind the painting in the study. I keyed in the code—my birthday, ironically. The heavy door swung open.
I began stacking deeds, passports, and birth certificates into my briefcase. As I pulled out a stack of bond certificates, a thin blue folder that I didn’t recognize slipped out and fell to the floor.
I frowned. I handled all the paperwork. I didn’t recognize this file.
I bent down and picked it up. It was a policy document from Titan Life Insurance.
I opened it.
Insured Party: Brianna Adams.
Coverage Amount: $18,000,000.
Policy Type: Term Life (Accidental Death & Dismemberment).
Beneficiary: Kaitlyn Shaw.
Relationship to Insured: Listed as “Future Spouse / Fiancée.”
The air left the room.
The policy had been created three months ago.
My hands went cold. This wasn’t just adultery. This wasn’t just financial parasitism. They had bet against my life. They had taken out a policy on me, counting on something happening to me, naming his mistress as the beneficiary under a title she hadn’t yet earned.
“Future Spouse.”
The implications were nauseating. Had they planned an accident? Or were they just waiting for the stress to kill me?
