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By 9:30 a.m., the news started spreading.
A friend of mine who worked at the airport sent me a video. Victor and Olivia were surrounded by federal agents right at the security checkpoint. Olivia was crying, still wearing my diamond tennis bracelet. Victor looked pale, shouting something about “this is a misunderstanding.”
I saved the video.
At 10:15 a.m., Victor’s mother called me, sobbing.
“Claire, please! They’re taking my son away! What did you do?!”
I answered calmly.
“What I should have done a long time ago, Mother. I protected myself and everything I built.”
She screamed at me, calling me heartless. I hung up.
By noon, Olivia’s parents had also contacted me. They were shocked. Their “innocent” daughter was now being questioned as an accomplice in financial fraud.
I didn’t feel joy. I felt justice.
Victor had taken eleven years of my life. He mocked me behind my back. He called me “useless” while spending my money and sleeping with a younger woman in hotels I paid for.
Now he was learning the real meaning of useless.
At 2:00 p.m., my lawyer sent the final update: Victor had been detained. The passport he proudly packed was now useless. All the money he thought he stole had been traced and returned. Even the blue velvet box of cufflinks? Evidence.
I changed my phone wallpaper to the screenshot of his last arrogant message: “Goodbye, useless woman. I’ve taken everything.”
I looked at it and chuckled again.
