The next few days were exhausting.
Pretending was harder than I expected.
Every time Daniel touched me, my skin crawled.
Every time my phone rang, I wondered if it was Nora.
But I smiled.
I cooked dinner.
I laughed at jokes.
I played the perfect wife.
Meanwhile, Amara secretly gathered evidence.
Call recordings.
Messages.
Bank transfers.
Things I never noticed before.
Then one night she called me urgently.
"I found something."
My heart raced.
"What?"
"Your husband opened a new account."
"So?"
"It's under your name."
My stomach twisted.
"What does that mean?"
Her voice dropped.
"It means if anything illegal happens… it will look like you did it."
My blood ran cold.
They weren't just planning to leave me.
They were planning to destroy me.
And suddenly everything made sense.
The lies.
The secrecy.
The manipulation.
But the biggest question remained.
Why?
What did they really want from me?
Money… or something much worse?