Over the next few days, Ethan behaves like someone who has discovered a new addiction—and doesn't know when to stop.
Every day, without exception, Claire receives photos from him. Sometimes it's a building. Sometimes an apartment. Sometimes a hotel still under development. Occasionally, it's an entire block marked neatly on a map, highlighted in red. Every message ends the same way.
[Do you like this?]
[What about this one?]
Claire likes all of them. Of course she does.
She likes money. She has never denied that. She likes security, ownership, assets that don't disappear overnight. For three years, she has given too much of herself to a marriage that never really belonged to her. If this is compensation, then fine—she deserves it.
And yet.
After the third day, after the fifth photo,
