The security chief opened the folder. “Your legal name is Rochelle Williams. You are currently married. Your husband is deployed overseas.”
Gasps.
Rochelle’s face went tight. “Darnell, baby, don’t listen to them!”
Theodore raised his hand, and the giant screens around the ballroom lit up.
Footage played.
Rochelle meeting multiple men in the same month, rehearsing tears in a mirror, laughing with someone on speakerphone.
A voice came through the speakers:
“She’s easy,” Rochelle said on the recording, smiling. “Ambitious men are always hungry. You just throw them a little admiration and they’ll hand you their life like a tip.”
Darnell swayed, as if he might vomit.
“You used me?” he whispered.
Rochelle’s mask cracked. Her face twisted into fury.
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