STITCHED IN LIES

Chapter 4 The Forty-First Floor

Word Count: 534 | Released on: 14/10/2026

nto the back of her closet, behind the beige and the cream and the carefully

bought online last winter one of those many nights when Marcus was at a

a long deep breath, inhaling the smell of t

nt that she had not been prepared for. It was not grief. It was want. A small, sharp want to move. To feel. To sweat. T

e phone had because wanting ca

wanting once before. She had wanted to be looked after, to be seen, to be cherished

hought, shaking. I can wa

lieve it, she still went ahead

y the one family nobody dared to cross. Wenthworths owned the ports, the power grid, half the ban

the cheap leggings, her heart beating

zed on the pa

car at Wenth

at the scre

ion sharing the night before, carefully, quietly,

I was here? Was

arrived before s

. Come ho

script rising, the apology, the swift sensible of course, I'm on my way, the whol

he windshield at the gl

ed like a leaf, she turned th

phone turned over. Nobody in

hree years, something insid

out of

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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.”