The second discovery tightened his throat: she hadn’t just built HavenLux. She’d built it with someone named Damien Cross. Her co-founder. Her fiancé. Now a rising star in tech circles, expected to sign a landmark deal with one of Evan’s partner investment firms. Their paths were about to intersect.
Evan scrolled through old press photos with Damien smiling beside her, hand resting possessively at her waist. Headlines praised them as the “Power Couple of the Future.” The future, however, clearly hadn’t been kind. The last photo showed only Damien at the product launch, with a carefully worded statement about Elena’s “sudden departure.”