It was Moonlit Stars. My jewelry design. Three months of sleepless nights poured into every line, every curve, a piece born from everything I understood about love, meant to be my entry for the Eternal Love Design Competition, and a wedding anniversary gift for Ralph. Every stroke drawn by my own hand. And the name on it was Lisa Perry's.
Lisa: Babe, I filled out the entry form for the Eternal Love competition. I put my own name down. The judges won't be a problem, right?
Ralph: Relax, I've got it handled. Your submission is yours now. Molly's got nothing to do with it. Even if she finds out, it'll be too late.
Lisa: You're so clever~ Using her design for my entry. Once we win that grand prize, we'll be set!
I gripped the phone so hard my knuckles turned white.
Good. Really good.
He wasn't just cheating, buying property, raising a secret child. He had taken the original design I'd bled over and handed it to his mistress to enter in the very competition I'd proposed, with her name stamped where mine should have been.
I took a slow breath, screenshotted every message, backed them up, saved every last shred of evidence, then placed the phone exactly where I'd found it.