On their fifth wedding anniversary, Evelyn prepared a full spread of dishes, only to find her husband Malcolm had slammed a divorce agreement down on the table. “You’re just a political marriage my grandfather forced on me—I don’t need you anymore.” The man even used her parents’ trust fund to threaten her, forcing her to leave with nothing. She signed the papers, then orchestrated a globally broadcast auction. The first lot was an intimate video of Malcolm and supermodel Sabrina, which was snapped up by her business rival August for $50 million and displayed on the Nasdaq jumbotron, causing Blackwood’s stock price to plummet overnight. The second lot consisted of bank transfer records showing a $3 million bribe to officials and recordings of bid-rigging—which she handed over to the FBI free of charge. The third lot was a secret the Blackwood family had hidden for eighteen years—Malcolm’s cousin Jace, born of an affair between his father Edward and his brother’s wife, Willow. The final lot was the DNA test report she’d kept buried at the bottom of a trunk: Malcolm wasn’t Edward’s biological son at all, but a bastard born of her mother Beatrice’s affair with her first love. As her ex-husband knelt on the ground, slapping himself in the face and threatening to kill himself to beg for reconciliation, she simply turned and walked away in her high heels. “That wasn’t revenge; it was just a woman at rock bottom choosing not to accept her fate.” From a discarded pawn in an arranged marriage to a female CEO on Wall Street, she used this auction to tell everyone: — Betrayal comes at a price, and her price tag was the entire Blackwood family.
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