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NÓS BRAÇOS DA MORTE

The Jilted Ex-Wife Is A Zillionaire

The Jilted Ex-Wife Is A Zillionaire

Felix Turner
Isabel returned to her penthouse after a grueling seventeen-hour flight, only to be greeted by the cloying scent of another woman's perfume. Her husband of three years, Darius, sat waiting with divorce papers. He wanted to marry his mistress, Dove, and offered Isabel a measly one million dollars, treating her like a greedy charity case from the Rust Belt who should just take the payout and vanish. But Isabel didn't want his pity. She demanded the four percent equity stake in his family's company that she rightfully owned—a stake worth 1.5 billion dollars. When she revealed this, the wealthy family turned vicious. They refused to acknowledge that she had secretly saved their empire from bankruptcy years ago. Instead, Darius and Dove orchestrated a brutal public execution. They ambushed her at a top law firm, spreading malicious lies that her investment money was stolen from a Ponzi scheme. They even hired a fake victim to scream at her in the lobby, successfully terrifying Isabel's lawyer into dropping her case on the spot. She had quietly rescued their entire legacy, yet they were willing to frame her as a criminal and destroy her life just to keep her rightful billions. As Darius and his mistress gloated over her absolute ruin, the most ruthless and feared lawyer in New York suddenly stepped in front of Isabel, his voice cutting through the dead silence. "Your case, I'll take it."
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Le jour déclinait, assombrissant les corridors de la grande demeure silencieuse, mettant des écrans de crêpe aux vitres.

Hugues Viane se disposa à sortir, comme il en avait l'habitude quotidienne à la fin des après-midi. Inoccupé, solitaire, il passait toute la journée dans sa chambre, une vaste pièce au premier étage, dont les fenêtres donnaient sur le quai du Rosaire, au long duquel s'alignait sa maison, mirée dans l'eau.

Il lisait un peu: des revues, de vieux livres; fumait beaucoup; rêvassait à la croisée ouverte par les temps gris, perdu dans ses souvenirs.

Voilà cinq ans qu'il vivait ainsi, depuis qu'il était venu se fixer à Bruges, au lendemain de la mort de sa femme. Cinq ans déjà! Et il se répétait à lui-même: ?Veuf! être veuf! Je suis le veuf!? Mot irrémédiable et bref! d'une seule syllabe, sans écho. Mot impair et qui désigne bien l'être dépareillé.

Pour lui, la séparation avait été terrible: il avait connu l'amour dans le luxe, les loisirs, le voyage, les pays neufs renouvelant l'idylle. Non seulement le délice paisible d'une vie conjugale exemplaire, mais la passion intacte, la fièvre continuée, le baiser à peine assagi, l'accord des ames, distantes et jointes pourtant, comme les quais parallèles d'un canal qui mêle leurs deux reflets.

Dix années de ce bonheur, à peine senties, tant elles avaient passé vite!

Puis, la jeune femme était morte, au seuil de la trentaine, seulement alitée quelques semaines, vite étendue sur ce lit du dernier jour, où il la revoyait à jamais: fanée et blanche comme la cire l'éclairant, celle qu'il avait adorée si belle avec son teint de fleur, ses yeux de prunelle dilatée et noire dans de la nacre, dont l'obscurité contrastait avec ses cheveux, d'un jaune d'ambre, des cheveux qui, déployés, lui couvraient tout le dos, longs et ondulés. Les Vierges des Primitifs ont des toisons pareilles, qui descendent en frissons calmes.

Sur le cadavre gisant, Hugues avait coupé cette gerbe, tressée en longue natte dans les derniers jours de la maladie. N'est-ce pas comme une pitié de la mort? Elle ruine tout, mais laisse intactes les chevelures. Les yeux, les lèvres, tout se brouille et s'effondre. Les cheveux ne se décolorent même pas. C'est en eux seuls qu'on se survit! Et maintenant, depuis les cinq années déjà, la tresse conservée de la morte n'avait guère pali, malgré le sel de tant de larmes.

Le veuf, ce jour-là, revécut plus douloureusement tout son passé, à cause de ces temps gris de novembre où les cloches, dirait-on, sèment dans l'air des poussières de sons, la cendre morte des années.

Il se décida pourtant à sortir, non pour chercher au dehors quelque distraction obligée ou quelque remède à son mal. Il n'en voulait point essayer. Mais il aimait cheminer aux approches du soir et chercher des analogies à son deuil dans de solitaires canaux et d'ecclésiastiques quartiers.

En descendant au rez-de-chaussée de sa demeure, il aper?ut, toutes ouvertes sur le grand corridor blanc, les portes d'ordinaire closes.

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