PART 2: Elena Whitmore did not drive home that night.
She sat alone in her event planning office in Midtown Manhattan, surrounded by linen samples, seating charts, floral mockups, and the kind of beautiful details people paid her thousands of dollars to perfect. On her computer screen, her husband’s betrayal sat in neat folders: airport video, hotel receipts, jewelry charges, apartment lease, messages, photographs, and financial transfers. For fourteen years, she had made chaos look elegant for other people, and now Gonzalo Hale had made the mistake of handing her the one thing she understood better than anyone.
