Noah's condition gradually stabilized after the surgery, and he was transferred back to a regular ward.
Troy brought over the public statement he had drafted. When I spotted the line "misunderstanding caused by miscommunication", I handed the phone back to him.
"It's a fact that the money never hit my account, and it's also a fact that you told the whole live stream I took a billion dollars. Don't spin this as some innocent misunderstanding."
He went quiet for a few seconds, then deleted that line.
That same day, Troy made a public admission.
The one billion dollars in divorce compensation he'd promised me five years earlier never made it to my account at all. It had been siphoned straight into the family fund run by Minerva.
He'd called me out for taking the money and walking out on
