“You’ve been a lawyer for years; I’m sure you’ll find a way out. But I want you to remember this mistake for the rest of your life—never repeat it.”
My eyes burned with unshed tears.
“I didn’t do it! Chloe deliberately hurt someone. She killed my client in revenge!”
“You’re still in denial! Chloe is part of the Miller family. She has everything she could ever want—why would she target some intern who just joined the company?”
“If you apologize to her, drop the charges, and clear her name, I can get you out of this.”
He either didn’t know the truth or didn’t care what I said. Chloe had intentionally slashed Emily Brooks’s face in the stairwell—just because she spoke to Jason at a meeting. I only wanted to stand up for the victim, but in his eyes, that became my crime.
In five years of marriage, this wasn’t the first time Jason ignored me for Chloe.
Once, when we were on a date in the suburban mountains, Chloe called, claiming she was being harassed at a bar in Manhattan. Jason immediately abandoned me, driving off to rescue her.