Chapter 10 - CELESTE REALIZED NATHAN WOULD BLAME HERCeleste contacted Mara.
She wanted a deal.
Not criminal immunity—Mara couldn’t offer that.
Cooperation.
Celeste had emails.
Recordings.
Nathan discussing forged shares.
Grant discussing the lender structure.
One recording:
Nathan:
“If Evelyn catches the transfer?”
Grant:
“She’ll be angry.”
Nathan:
“She’ll divorce me.”
Grant:
“Then make sure she looks unstable before she files.”
My stomach turned.
That explained the store confrontation.
Nathan had been provoking me for weeks.
Coldness.
Affair made increasingly obvious.
Financial gaslighting.
He wanted an emotional eruption he could use.
I had suspected.
That was why I went to the store intentionally.
Cameras.
Witnesses.
Controlled setting.
What I hadn’t predicted was he would hit me.
Twice.
Those slaps destroyed the unstable-wife narrative instead of supporting it.
Celeste admitted she smiled after the second slap.
Why?
Jealousy.
Cruelty.
And because she believed I was finally losing control.
She apologized later.
Not immediately.
The first real version:
“I enjoyed seeing you humiliated because I wanted your life.”
Accurate.
Then:
“I helped Nathan manipulate your company rights because I thought being chosen by him meant I would eventually share his power.”
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There.
No excuses.
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