“What consequences?” she asked.
Dominic ignored her.
Again.
That was the first moment I almost felt sorry for her.
Not because she hadn’t helped destroy my marriage.
She had.
But because she was beginning to understand that she had not been chosen for love either.
She had been chosen for financing.
Simone placed a court-stamped packet on the bedside table.
“Mr. Vale, you’ve been served.”
Dominic stared at it.
“What is this?”
“Emergency injunction,” Simone said. “Preservation of marital assets, temporary protection order regarding financial coercion, petition to reopen the divorce settlement, and notice of fraud evidence submitted to the merger board.”
Celeste whispered, “Merger board?”
Simone looked at her.
“Your father’s merger board.”
The color drained from Celeste’s face.
Dominic grabbed the packet and flipped through the pages.
“This is insane.”
“No,” Simone said. “Insane was attempting to close a two-hundred-million-dollar hotel merger while concealing a disputed divorce, a newborn dependent, unpaid medical obligations, and falsified vendor payments.”
