For three years, Coralie played the perfect, compliant wife to billionaire Cale Montgomery, silently enduring his coldness. That illusion shattered when she caught him in a VIP club hallway, indulging his fragile first love, Hayleigh, while his friends mocked Coralie as a pathetic housewife. Cale expected her to lower her head and submit. Instead, Coralie threw an ice-cold martini in Hayleigh's face. Furious, Cale dismissed her rebellion as a tantrum for a bigger payout. To force her submission, her own father called with a vicious ultimatum. "If you don't get Cale to fund my business, I'll cut off the payments to your mother's care facility today!" When Coralie rushed to the hospital to pay for the life support herself, she noticed a deep, unnatural scratch on her comatose mother's antique gold ring. Someone had tried to pry it off her finger. The nurse admitted her stepmother had just visited. A chilling realization froze Coralie's blood. Her mother's tragic car crash three years ago was never an accident. She marched straight into Cale's corporate headquarters and threw a zero-alimony divorce agreement onto his mahogany desk. When Hayleigh tried to humiliate her with VIP tickets, Coralie shredded them into pieces and let them rain down on her Chanel suit. "I don't chew other people's spit-out gum." Coralie wasn't just walking away from this gilded cage anymore. She was going to tear both of their families apart to uncover the truth.
The heavy bass from the club downstairs vibrated through the thick Persian rug, traveling up the stiletto heels of Coralie Hyde's shoes and settling deep in her bones.
She walked down the dimly lit VIP hallway of the exclusive Manhattan private club. The air smelled of expensive cigars and spilled secrets.
Coralie rounded a massive marble sculpture. Her eyes locked onto the frosted glass door of Suite 88. It was slightly ajar.
Cale Montgomery leaned against the walnut-paneled wall of the corridor. His broad shoulders relaxed. His tie hung loose around his neck.
Hayleigh Burns stood pressed against him. Her body was poured into a tight red dress. Hayleigh's manicured fingers toyed with the second button of Cale's crisp white shirt.
Cale did not push her away. Instead, he looked down at her with a lazy, indulgent smirk playing on his lips.
Coralie's stomach dropped. A sharp, physical pain radiated from her sternum, making it hard to draw a breath.
Three years of marriage. Three years of telling herself he was just busy, just cold, just reserved. The perfect filter she had placed over her life shattered into jagged pieces right there in the hallway.
She sucked in a sharp breath. The cold air hit the back of her throat. The tightness in her chest hardened into something solid. Ice cold.
Coralie lengthened her stride. She stopped trying to walk softly. Her heels clicked sharply against the marble border of the rug.
Cale's head snapped up at the sound. His dark eyes cut through the dim lighting.
When he recognized his usually compliant, quiet wife, his pupils dilated. A microscopic flinch tightened his jaw.
Hayleigh felt him tense. She frowned, turning her head to glare at the woman interrupting them.
Coralie stopped exactly two feet away from them. She kept her spine perfectly straight. She tilted her chin up.
Hayleigh rolled her eyes. She let out a loud, mocking scoff and pressed her breasts harder against Cale's arm.
A waiter in a black vest hurried down the hallway. He carried a silver tray loaded with freshly poured, ice-cold martinis.
A memory of last week's anniversary, when he hadn't even come home, flashed in her mind. That, combined with the sight of them right now... it was enough. The three years of silent submission finally reached its breaking point. Coralie did not hesitate. She reached out with her left hand-the hand wearing the massive Montgomery diamond ring. She grabbed a full martini glass off the tray.
The waiter gasped, freezing in his tracks.
Coralie flicked her wrist. The movement was smooth, almost practiced.
The freezing alcohol and the green olive flew through the air. The liquid hit Hayleigh squarely in the face.
Hayleigh shrieked. The piercing sound echoed off the walnut walls. She stumbled backward, her high heel twisting. She slammed her shoulder into the wall.
The expensive red silk of her dress instantly darkened, clinging wetly to her skin. Mascara ran down her cheeks in thick, black lines.
Cale's jaw clenched so hard a muscle ticked near his ear. Shock flashed across his face, quickly followed by the cold fury of a man whose authority had just been publicly challenged. He had never seen Coralie act out of line. Never.
He pushed off the wall, standing at his full, intimidating height. He opened his mouth, his brow furrowed, ready to use that low, commanding tone that usually made her submit.
Coralie didn't give him the chance. She raised her left hand, palm out, silencing him.
She stared directly into his eyes. Her gaze was completely dead.
Cale swallowed hard. The words died in his throat. The sheer coldness in her eyes physically repelled him.
Hayleigh began to sob loudly. She grabbed the sleeve of Cale's suit jacket, trying to hide behind him.
Mr. Foster, the club manager, came sprinting down the hallway. Two large security guards jogged heavily behind him, their radios crackling.
Coralie didn't even glance at Hayleigh. She tossed the empty martini glass back onto the waiter's tray. The glass hit the silver metal with a loud clatter.
She opened her designer clutch. She pulled out a white tissue and meticulously wiped her fingers, as if touching the glass had contaminated her.
Coralie looked at Cale. Her voice was flat, devoid of any emotion.
"This fake marriage game is over, Cale."
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Chapter 1 THE WINE ON HER RED DRESS
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Chapter 2 FIVE MALE ESCORTS, PLEASE
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Chapter 3 DRAGGED OUT INTO THE COLD
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Chapter 4 THE GHOST OF HIS FIRST LOVE
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Chapter 5 NO WATER FOR THE DRUNK HUSBAND
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Chapter 6 SIGN THE PAPERS, ZERO ALIMONY
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Chapter 7 THE CUT ON MY MOTHER'S RING
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Chapter 8 PAST THE GATEKEEPERS, STRAIGHT TO HIM
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Chapter 9 PAST THE GATEKEEPERS, STRAIGHT TO HIM
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Chapter 10 YOUR TICKETS I RIPPED THEM APART
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Chapter 11 MRS. MONTGOMERY NEED NOT APPLY
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Chapter 12 THE RED SOLES LEFT A DENT
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Chapter 13 HE BROKE DOWN HER DOOR
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Chapter 14 THE GRANDFATHER CARD
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Chapter 15 SMILE FOR THE HAMPTONS
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Chapter 16 STOLEN STRAWBERRIES, CAUGHT GLANCE
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Chapter 17 BLAME IT ON HIS PERFORMANCE
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Chapter 18 PEPPER IN HER THROAT, RAGE IN HIS EYES
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Chapter 19 A KISS FOR THE AUDIENCE
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Chapter 20 TELL ME YOU NEVER LOVED ME
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Chapter 21 THE SOUP HE NEVER MADE FOR ME
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Chapter 22 THE GRANDFATHER'S BLACK CARD
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Chapter 23 GOSSIP ON THE GLASS STAIRCASE
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Chapter 24 HANDS OFF THE RED DRESS
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Chapter 25 TRAPPED IN A ZIPPER, BY MY WIFE
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Chapter 26 KEEP YOUR BLACK CARD
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Chapter 27 A RIDE FROM HIS BEST FRIEND
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Chapter 28 SHE TOOK MY SEAT, HE SAID NOTHING
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Chapter 29 DON'T TOUCH THE WAITRESS
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Chapter 30 THE NIGHT I ENDED UP IN YOUR BED
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Chapter 31
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Chapter 32
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Chapter 33
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Chapter 34
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Chapter 35
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Chapter 36
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Chapter 37
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Chapter 38
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Chapter 39
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Chapter 40
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