My assistant, Kate, slid her tablet across my desk. “You need to see this.”
No legal filing had arrived. Julian had chosen a tabloid.
The headline filled the screen: “THE BARREN QUEEN OF WALL STREET: How a Corporate Raider Faked a Pregnancy to Trap a Man, Then Destroyed the Life of His Real Child’s Mother.”
The article claimed I had faked my pregnancy to force Julian into a marriage he never wanted.
After he discovered my “deception,” I had supposedly used my wealth to ruin him and stalk Chloe, described as a struggling single mother trying to protect her unborn child.
They used a cropped photo of me leaving Blackwood in a suit beside one of Chloe holding her belly. Fabricated text screenshots showed hearts from Julian and threats from an account with my name.
The story was false. Th
