STITCHED IN LIES

Chapter 3 The Black Card

Word Count: 524 | Released on: 14/10/2026

or twenty-six hours and walked like she was personally annoyed at gravity. She was also the only friend Marcus had

ack card on the

letic club, Wenthworth Tower. Invitation only. My

I can't

e folded her arms.

t being seen, and being seen meant being asked questions

"I watched you. You flinch when a door shuts. You check the clock bef

't crue

mission to sit down. I treat people who've been hurt for a livin

dow and looked at the white lawn, at the white fence, a

ing," Lilian said quietly. "It i

of a house you aren't ready to leave. But I need you to hear this, and then I'll shut up. None of this is you

ears trying to well up in her eyes because she no longer cried. She had stoppe

thers, however, that strength becomes nothing but

omething. Sweat. Remember you h

ogo, only a silver W pressed into the

herself, that it would not be such a bad idea to hit a p

a small and almost s

r, that her hand had a

r hand. In her three years of marriage, sh

about

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“Shyne Maine once dressed an entire city. Three years into her marriage to investment banker Marcus Maine, she has given up her label, her money, her friends, and almost her sense of what she remembers. His control never raises its voice. It arrives as kindness, and as rules. Then she finds a second phone in his gym bag, and a message that proves his lies. A forced membership at a private gym puts her in the path of Chad Wenthworth, the most powerful man in the city, who asks permission before he touches her and tells her the truth when it costs him. When Marcus turns her into a criminal in front of the world, Shyne fights back with a runway show under her own billboard. But the victory opens a darker question: a name written in Chad's late father's notebook, beside Marcus's. It's her missing father's. Sixteen years ago, eleven men died in a dock fire, and three families built their fortunes on the lie. Now the only proof is hidden in a child's book of fabric swatches. To uncover it, Shyne must trust the man whose family may have destroyed hers.”