Chapter 1
On my wedding night, my husband got called over by his brother's widow, Elena Tides, to help her suck out the clogged milk.
No sooner had he stepped out the door than I caught the sound of them flirting heatedly through the wall.
"I won't let you touch her! Not now, not ever! If you have any contact with her, I'll take the kid and disappear from your life for good!"
Bernard Uriel gazed at the voluptuous Elena, his voice soft as silk.
"Relax. Trash like her? She could strip naked and stand right in front of me, and I wouldn't get hard even a little bit. I swear to God, if I so much as glance at her even once, you can twist my head off and kick it around like a soccer ball!"
Elena burst into laughter through her tears, and curled her arms around his neck.
They tangled together in a hungry, breathless kiss, and before they even made it into the bedroom, his pants were already unbuttoned and halfway down.
Bernard never returned to the bedroom that whole night. And Elena next door moaned through every hour of it.
Early the next morning, they were still passed out cold from having s*x all night. I posted their full s*x tape to a secondhand resale platform:
Only 66 Cents to Unlock the Full Wedding Night Footage!
I'd even built a custom little app for it, which automatically sent the video to buyers the second they completed checkout.
In just ten minutes, I sold twenty thousand copies.
The trending topic (#GroupCEOBernardUrielCheatsonHisWife) blew up the search rankings in seconds.
The university where Elena worked got tipped off immediately, and students quickly launched a collective boycott against her.
A: [Seducing her husband's brother, she doesn't deserve to be a teacher!]
B: [She knew he was married and still hooked up with him. A total moral decay!]
Bernard's mom, Cordelia Uriel, called me more than a dozen times, but I just ignored every single one.
As the scandal kept blowing up, she spammed me with text after angry text.
Cordelia: You insane b***h! What do you get out of ruining the Uriel Group?!
Cordelia: Issue a clarification right now. Say the video's AI-generated, whip up a 100-word emotional post, and beg Bernard and Elena for forgiveness!
Thirty seconds later, Bernard burst through my front door, phone clenched so tight his knuckles were white, his whole body shaking with rage.
"Clara Woods, what the f**k is wrong with you? Are you crazy?!"
He slammed his phone hard into the floor, his eyes bloodshot as he roared at me.
"Elena's a widow with a kid to raise on her own. She's already had it so hard! What's wrong with me looking after my brother's wife? Who the hell do you think you are to smear our names like this?!"
I stared at his bare chest, and couldn't help but laugh out loud.
"Looking after her, huh? Then what are these marks all over you? Did a dog bite you?
"You haven't taken a good look at the video yet, have you? I shot every single second clear as day..."
He blew a fuse instantly, and one violent kick sent the chair toppling over.
"Shut up! Elena and I grew up together! Last night was just a moment of weakness. That's all!
"Besides, she's a university professor! How do you expect her to ever show her face to her students again after this?
"Clara, do you really have to ruin both of our careers?!"
I yanked the toppled chair back upright in one sharp, defiant movement, locked eyes with his blood-red glare, and spoke slow and clear, every word cutting through the air,
"Professor? Elena doesn't deserve that title. You two were so desperate for s*x you didn't even care about your family tie, you messed around together. This whole mess? You brought it on yourselves."
"What's wrong? Too cowardly to own what you did?"
Fire burned in Bernard's eyes, and he snapped his right hand up to slap me.
"Go ahead, hit me. I'm recording this right now. The next hot search will be:
#UrielGroupPresidentBeatsHisLawfulWifeforHisMistress."
He clenched his fists tight and glared at me, brimming with venom.
"I'll deal with you later!"
With a loud bang of the door slamming shut, he stormed out of the room in a fit of rage.
Right on his heels, Cordelia burst into the villa and started raining abuse down on me, not holding back a single word.
"Can't even keep your man on your wedding night? That's just your own uselessness! Clara, have you even thought about the Uriel family's reputation and dignity with all this nonsense you're pulling?! Post a clarification video right now, or I'll have to discipline you according to the Uriel family's rules!"