The next day, there was nothing about Michael in the newspaper headlines, but the internet was flooded with news. Some even spun conspiracy theories, claiming that Michael’s daughter, unwilling to let her father remarry and risk splitting the inheritance, had lured Sophia to a club, drugged her, and sent her to another man’s bed.

The so-called evidence looked convincing, I couldn’t help but laugh.

These underhanded tricks might not be presentable, but they ...