The restaurant glowed with candlelight and expensive lies. Daniel arrived with his mother, Evelyn, and his mistress, Celeste, already dressed like she owned the place. They thought I would cry quietly over dinner while they pushed me out of the life I built.
Celeste raised her champagne glass and toasted to “new beginnings,” while Evelyn lectured me about supporting a husband’s ambitions. Daniel kept warning me not to make a scene, but I stayed calm enough to unsettle all of them.
Then the cake arrived. White frosting. Black icing. Three simple words: Enjoy The Divorce. Beneath the cake board sat sealed envelopes with each of their names written in gold.
Daniel opened his first. Hotel receipts. Secret transfers. Messages. Proof that company money funded Celeste’s apartment, jewelry, and flights. Evelyn’s envelope held emails plotting how to pressure me into signing everything away before the investor audit began-
