Daphne’s POV

The words glare down at me in merciless neon:

EX-WIFE EXPOSED: GOLD DIGGER TURNS TO OLDER BLACK BROTHER.

The scrolling line beneath it slices deeper.

From disgraced divorcee to power-climber: Daphne Black resurfaces at the side of Manhattan’s ghost investor, Xavier Black.

Sources say her rise isn’t a strategy. it’s seduction.

My stomach lurches.

The crowd in the lobby hums like a hive, phones lifted, whispers cutting sharp enough to draw blood.

I don’t breathe until the ...