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Wife He Forgot To Mention Part 1. English dubbed
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00:01doesn't know i am his ceo tonight at the company gala i am funding he'll introduce his mistress
00:07as the woman who inspires his success and i'll be seated at the back table next to the coat check
00:13seven years that is how long i'd kept the secret not because i wanted to because when i married
00:19ryan fletcher i was nobody a scrappy tech developer working 18 hour days in a basement apartment
00:26eating ramen writing code that would eventually be worth billions ryan was the golden boy ivy league
00:33mba chiseled jaw the kind of man who made waitresses forget their orders he married me when i had
00:40nothing and i loved him for it i genuinely believed he loved me too then my company exploded nexaris
00:48technologies i founded it under my maiden name elliot claire elliot not claire fletcher my lawyer
00:54structured it that way for liability reasons but it became something else entirely a shield
00:59because as nexaris grew from a startup to a tech giant worth 12 billion dollars ryan fletcher never
01:05once asked what i actually did for a living he thought i was a freelancet consultant that is what
01:11i told him in the early days and he never questioned it never googled me never looked at the financial
01:18disclosures on our joint tax returns which my accountants carefully structured to show only
01:23comfortable income the real money the staggering empire building money flowed through trusts holding
01:29companies and offshore accounts he had no idea existed why did i let it go on so long because i
01:35was testing him and he was failing three years into our marriage ryan landed a mid-level marketing
01:41position at a company called wait for it nexaris technologies my company he came home buzzing with
01:48excitement talking about the brilliant mysterious ceo who no one had ever met in person they say she is
01:54a recluse he told me over dinner some genius hermit probably ugly as sin he laughed i didn't i could
02:04have
02:04told him then i should have but something stopped me a cold whisper in my gut that said watch wait
02:11see who
02:12he really is when he thinks no one important is looking so i watched i watched him climb the
02:17corporate ladder at my company not through talent but through charm and politics i watched him take
02:24credit for his assistance ideas i watched him dismiss female colleagues as too emotional for leadership
02:31and i watched him 18 months ago begin coming home smelling of perfume that wasn't mine her name was
02:38vanessa holt senior vice president of brand strategy tall blonde impeccable the kind of woman who wore
02:45power like perfume she joined nexaris two years ago hired by my kuo and had quickly become the company's
02:51golden girl she was also sleeping with my husband i had the proof security footage from the executive
02:58parking garage hotel receipts on his corporate card my corporate card tets messages my cyber security team
03:05flagged during a routine audit i read every single one each message was a paper cut small and precise
03:12bleeding me slowly but i didn't confront him not yet because tomorrow night was the nexaris annual gala
03:19the crown jewel of the company's social calendar 400 guests press coverage a live broadcast to investors
03:26and ryan freshly promoted to vp of marketing a promotion i had secretly approved just to see how far
03:33his arrogance would stretch was giving the keynote speech a speech in which according to the draft
03:38i'd intercepted he planned to thank the woman who inspires everything i do not me vanessa and tomorrow
03:45night for the first time in seven years the reclusive ceo of nexaris technologies would make a public
03:51appearance he had no idea what was coming but i did i'd planned every single second my phone buzzed a
03:58text from ryan tovente babe don't wait up working late on the gala speech this is going to change
04:03everything for us i smiled at the screen a cold surgical smile yes ryan it certainly will
04:15the morning of the gala ryan stood in front of our bedroom mirror adjusting a tie i'd never seen before
04:21silk perm is expensive new tie i asked from the bed keeping my voice light curious wifely he didn't
04:28look at me vanessa picked it out she has incredible taste said it matches the gala's color scheme he
04:36said her name the way people say fundy sunshine warm involuntary reverent i cataloged the moment
04:42filed it away with all the others she sounds very involved she's the best thing that ever happened to
04:48that company he said finally turning his eyes swept over me my messy bun my oversized sleep shirt
04:54my bare face and i saw it the flicker not of love not even of affection but of mild disappointment
05:00the
05:01look of a man who had mentally upgraded and was now stuck staring at the old model you're not coming
05:06tonight right he asked already knowing the answer already wanting it you said spouses weren't invited this
05:12year right yeah it's strictly a corporate thing very exclusive vanessa organized the whole guest list
05:20he smiled proud of her proud of a woman who worked at tevin my teen king p company spending so
05:25in my
05:25budget sleeping with seven by husband but he added his voice dropping into that patronizing tone i'd grown
05:32to despise i got you something since you'll be home alone he pulled a small paper bag from his briefcase
05:40inside a scented candle lavender the kind you buy at a drugstore checkout line i thought you could
05:46have a nice relaxing night and maybe do a face mask or something you've been looking a little tired
05:52lately tired i was running a 12 billion dollar empire performing due diligence on a major acquisition
05:58and quietly documenting my husband's affair yes i was tired thank you ryan that's thoughtful
06:07i held the candle like it was a grenade he kissed my forehead a gesture so perfunctory it might as
06:13well have been a post-it note and left i listened to his car pull out of the driveway then
06:17i moved
06:18the dress was already waiting in my private closet the one behind the bookshelf in my home office
06:23the room ryan thought was just where claire does her little computer stuff it was a custom valentino
06:29midnight black with a neckline that could start wars my stylist had flown in from milan my jeweler had
06:35sent a diamond choker worth more than ryan's annual salary his real salary not the inflated one he
06:40bragged about to his friends i sat at my vanity a sleek hidden station that would make any hollywood
06:46actress jealous and began the transformation hair swept into a sculpted updo makeup that sharpened
06:52every angle of my face heels that added four inches and approximately 10 years of authority when i was done
06:58i stared at my reflection this wasn't claire fletcher the freelance it consultant who waited at home with
07:03drugstore candles this was claire elliott founder ceo billionaire the woman 400 people were about to
07:09meet for the first time my phone rang my coop tia daniel park everything's set he said your entrance is
07:15scheduled for 9 on 15 pm right after fletcher's keynote the board is seated press is corralled security
07:22has been briefed no one enters or exits the main ballroom during the reveal and the screen loaded and ready
07:27the moment you walk on stage the presentation switches from fletcher slides to yours good and
07:33daniel see make sure vanessa holt has a front row seat i want her to see everything already done she's
07:39at table one right next to the podium i took one last look in the mirror the woman staring back
07:44at me
07:45was someone ryan had never met someone he lived with for seven years and never bothered to see fun
07:49tonite he'd see her and it would be the last thing he'd ever see coming send the car i said
07:55i'm ready
07:58the nexus annual gala was held at the meridian a converted cathedral turned event space that
08:04dripped with gothic grandeur soaring stone arches candlelight a ceiling that disappeared into shadow
08:10my events team had spent three months and two million dollars transforming it into a showcase
08:15of corporate power and aesthetic precision every orchid arrangement every lighting cue every note of
08:22the string quartet had been selected by my office ryan thought vanessa had organized it
08:27of course he did i arrived in a private entrance at the back of the building escorted by daniel and
08:32two members of my personal security team the main event was already underway through the walls i could
08:37hear the murmur of 400 guests investors board members tech journalists and every senior executive
08:44at nexus my company my night daniel handed me a tablet showing the live security feed of the ballroom
08:51i scanned the crowd until i found him ryan center of the room champagne in hand laughing with a cluster
08:59of executives who hung on his every word he was performing the charming self-made man who'd risen
09:05through the ranks on pure talent the lie was so polished it gleamed and there glued to his side like
09:11a
09:11designer accessory was vanessa holt she wore a red gown that screamed swendy look at me her hand resting
09:17on ryan's arm with the casual possessiveness of a woman who believed she'd already won she leaned into
09:23him whispered something and he laughed that private intimate laugh he used to save for me i felt nothing
09:29that surprised me months ago seeing them together sent acid through my veins now clinical detachment
09:35a surgeon studying a scan before cutting his keynote speech starts in 12 minutes dingle murmured
09:43good let him have his moment it'll make mine more memorable i watched on the tablet as ryan took the
09:50stage the applause was generous he was well liked i'd give him that charm was his only genuine skill
09:56he adjusted the microphone flashed his camera ready smile and began thank you all for being here tonight
10:02nexaurus isn't just a company it's a family my family i thought that you've been robbing blind
10:09and every great success story has that one person who makes it all possible the person who believes
10:15in you when no one else does who pushes you to be better he paused look directly at vanessa seated
10:22at
10:22table one her face glowing with anticipation vanessa holt would you please stand up she rose graceful
10:28and triumphant smoothing her red gown the crowd applauded politely camera flashes popped this woman
10:35ryan continued his voice thick with rehearsed emotion is the reason i'm standing here today
10:40she's not just a colleague she's my partner my inspiration my everything vanessa this award this
10:47night it's for you he lifted a crystal trophy from the podium the nexaurus leadership award given
10:53annually to the company's most outstanding contributor an award that my board selected
10:58an award that this year i had specifically instructed to remain unassigned until tonight
11:04he was giving my award to his mistress on my stage in my building paid for with my money
11:10vanessa's eyes glistened with tears she mouthed away love you ryan ryan mouthed it back the crowd
11:16murmured some touched others uncomfortable several board members exchanged glances they knew
11:21they all knew who the real ceo was and they could feel something seismic approaching daniel looked at
11:26me it's time i straightened my diamond choker smoothed the valentino and took a breath lights i said
11:36but the room went dark every screen every spotlight every ambient glow extinguished in a single coordinated
11:43blackout 400 people gasped vanessa clutched the trophy brian froze a podium blinking into sudden darkness
11:51then a single spotlight hit the stage door and i watched
12:11the spotlight was blinding and warm 400 faces turned toward me a sea of confusion curiosity and dawning
12:18recognition the enormous screens flanking the stage flickered to life displaying a single image my face
12:24alongside five words in bold white text claire elliott founder and ceo the gasps pulled through the
12:30ballroom like a shockwave board members who kept my secret for years sat back with quiet satisfaction
12:37journalists scrambled for their phones and ryan my husband my betrayer stood frozen at the podium his
12:43mouth hanging open the crystal trophy still clutched in his white knuckled hand he didn't recognize me
12:50not immediately the woman he'd kissed goodbye that morning messy bun sleep shirt tired eyes
12:56bore no resemblance to the woman now commanding his stage in valentino and diamonds i watched
13:01the recognition crawl across his face like a slow crack spreading through glass clear he whispered the
13:07microphone catching it broadcasting his confusion to every corner of the room i didn't answer him not
13:13yet i walked to center stage my heels clicking against the polished floor with metronomic precision
13:19i stopped three feet from the podium close enough to see the vein pulsing in his temple close enough to
13:25smell vanessa's perfume still lingering on his jacket good evening i said my voice amplified steady warm
13:32the voice of a ceo addressing her empire for those of you who don't know me and apparently that includes
13:39my own husband send my name is claire elliott i founded nexaris technologies in my basement apartment
13:46eight years ago with eleven thousand dollars and a belief that technology should serve people
13:51not exploit them i pause letting the irony breathe i've led this company from a startup to a 12 billion
13:58dollar global enterprise i've signed every major deal i've approved every strategic hire
14:05and yes i glanced at ryan whose face was now the color of old chalk i approved every single promotion
14:12within this building including yours ryan a murmur rolled through the crowd ryan's grip on the podium
14:19tightened now i understand there's been some confusion about tonight's leadership award i gestured to
14:26the crystal trophy in his trembling hand my husband seems to have taken it upon himself to present it
14:32to someone let's talk about that the screens behind me changed a new slide appeared a detailed
14:39organizational chart of nexaris with every executive's name title and reporting line at the very top
14:46funclair elliott ceo directly below in the marketing division farion fletcher vp of marketing and beside
14:53him connected by a dotted line farce vanessa holt svp brand strategy ryan fletcher was hired at nexaris
15:03three years ago i continued my tone shifting to something clinical detached a surgeon presenting findings he
15:11entered as a junior marketing associate he was promoted four times in 36 months sem an unusual
15:17trajectory that raised questions among several department heads i can now confirm that each of
15:23those promotions was approved by my office not because of his performance metrics which were
15:27consistently average but because i wanted to understand something i turned to face i wanted to
15:35understand what kind of man i married the silence in the room was absolute even the string quartet had
15:43stopped the answer unfortunately was illuminating i clicked a remote the screens changed again this time
15:51they showed a series of internal performance reviews ryan's with every metric highlighted client satisfaction
15:57below average campaign roi bottom quartile team leadership scores consistently poor peer reviews
16:04included phrases like takes credit for others work and dismissive of female colleagues these are your
16:10actual performance reviews ryan the ones your direct supervisor filed the ones you never saw because
16:16vanessa dental lee began sleeping with you approximately 18 months ago and buried them and replaced them
16:22with fabric rate evaluation vanessa still standing at table one went rigid her face drained of color
16:28the trophy on the table in front of her suddenly looked like an accusation
16:32which brings us to miss holt i turned my gaze to vanessa she flinched as if i'd struck her vanessa
16:40holt was hired two years ago based on an impressive resume that my hr team has since verified contains three
16:46fabricated credentials including a master's degree she never earned she has systematically inflated ryan's
16:52performance records redirected departmental budgets to fund personal expenses and used her position to
16:58suppress complaints from junior staff members who witnessed their relationship i clicked again
17:04expense reports appeared on screen hotel suites first class flights folks gendon aspen all charged to nexery's corporate
17:12accounts all approved by vanessa all benefiting ryan these charges total four hundred and twelve thousand dollars
17:22i said embezzled from my company my company that i built line by line code by code while my husband
17:31sat at home and never once asked what i did for a living ryan finally found his voice it came
17:37out
17:37cracked desperate claire slayer wait you don't understand this isn't what it looks like vanessa
17:43and i sam we're just colleagues this is a misunderstanding the crowd shifted uncomfortably several people
17:50actually laughed short incredulous bursts of disbelief i tilted my head a misunderstanding let's clear that
17:57up i clicked the remote one final time the screens displayed a text message exchange his phone her
18:04phone time stamps read receipts everything rufian can't wait to see you tonight wear the red dress
18:12tune vanessa 2d already picked it out are you sure she won't come boucherian claire please she thinks
18:21it is corporate only she'll be home with a face mask and a candle she has no idea about anything
18:26fuddy vanessa or tea poor thing does she even know you are planning to leave her fratirian bergt
18:33after the promotion i'll have enough leverage six more talks then asked to guess the words hung on the
18:40screen 10 feet tall illuminated for 400 witnesses and a live press feed the silence that followed was
18:47the loudest sound i'd ever heard ryan's face crumbled not with guilt with exposure the mask didn't just
18:54slip it shattered into a thousand pieces on the stage floor he looked at me and for the first time
18:59in
18:59years he truly sevens didn't saw me claire i you're fired ryan my voice was quiet final active
19:08immediately security will escort you out your corporate accounts have been frozen your company
19:14car has been repossessed and your access badge was deactivated sem i checked my watch approximately 90
19:21seconds ago two security guards appeared at the edge of the stage waiting i turned to vanessa
19:27ems holt you're also terminated my legal team will be in contact regarding the embezzlement charges
19:34i'd recommend retaining a lawyer vanessa opened her mouth but nothing came out the trophy sat on the
19:41table in front of her gleaming mockingly i turned back to the audience 400 faces stared at me stunned
19:48riveted many openly admiring the board members were nodding the journalists were typing furiously
19:55this was the story of the year and they knew it the next series leadership award i said picking up
20:01the crystal trophy from where ryan had abandoned it on the podium will be presented later this evening to
20:06someone who actually earned it in the meantime please enjoy the rest of the gala the champagne is excellent
20:12sem i selected it myself i walked off stage to a sound i hadn't expected applause it started slow a
20:19few
20:19bold souls in the back then swelled rolling through the ballroom like thunder not polite corporate applause
20:25real applause the kind that shakes walls i didn't look back at ryan i didn't need to
20:32the last thing i heard before the stage door closed behind me was vanessa's voice
20:35shrill and breaking ryan do something ryan and the silence was absolute devastating silence
20:55the backstage corridor was cool and quiet a stark contrast to the electric chaos i just left behind
21:00my heels echoed against concrete floors as i walked toward the private suite daniel had prepared
21:06my hands were steady my pulse was calm seven years of waiting watching documenting and it was done in
21:13under 15 minutes daniel fell into set beside me the press pool is losing their minds every major tech
21:20outlet wants an exclusive your pr team is fielding calls from cnn bloomberg and three international networks
21:26no interviews tonight i said release the prepared statement at midnight let the footage speak for
21:31itself done and claire the board wants you to know they're fully behind you every single member harrison
21:37actually stood up and started the applause i allowed myself a small smile harrison wells my chairman
21:43was 72 years old and i'd never clapped for anything that wasn't a dividend in case inside the suite
21:50i poured myself a glass of the same champagne being served in the ballroom a 2008 vintage i'd sourced
21:56from a private seller in reams it tasted like victory clean cold and effervescent my phone was
22:03already exploding i ignored most of it but one notification caught my eye a security alert from
22:09the ballroom i pulled up the live feed on my tablet ryan hadn't left he was standing near the exit
22:16flanked by two security guards arguing his face was red contorted his hands gesturing wildly
22:23vanessa was beside him mascara streaking down her cheeks clutching his arm the guests were giving
22:29them a wide berth the way people avoid a car accident while still rubbernecking
22:34i zoomed in ryan was on his phone shouting at someone i tapped into the audio feed my building
22:40my security system my rules don't care what she said i'm her husband i have rights she can't just
22:48fire me in front of everyone i'll sue her i'll sue the entire company the security guard a former marine
22:56named torres whom i'd personally hired responded with magnificent calms sir your access has been revoked
23:04you need to vacate the premises do you know who i am yes sir you're the gentleman who was just
23:16fired
23:16by the ceo please exit through the south doors i watched vanessa tug ryan's sleeve whispering urgently
23:24he shook her off she stumbled in her heels catching herself on a table the crystal trophy she'd been
23:31clutching earlier was nowhere to be seen someone had quietly reclaimed it then ryan did something i
23:37hadn't predicted he pulled out his phone dialed and held it to his ear my phone rang i stared at
23:43the
23:43screen varian fletcher pastor is calling me while i watched him on camera 30 feet of concrete and steel
23:50between us i answered claire we need to talk right now you owe me that i owe you nothing ryan
24:01absolutely nothing you just humiliated me in front of the entire industry you destroyed my career my
24:08reputation do you have any idea what you've done i showed them the truth if the truth destroys you
24:15that's not my fault it's yours this is insane you've been lying to me for seven years seven years claire
24:23you let me believe you were some some nobody it free answer while you were running a billion dollar
24:29company that's fraud that's manipulation no ryan that's a woman watching her husband reveal exactly
24:35who he is when he thinks no one important is paying attention cheated on his wife and planned to leave
24:40her once he'd extracted enough professional leverage from her own company you weren't married to me you
24:45were married to the idea that you were the impressive one in this relationship silence heavy suffocating
24:50silence then then quieter the money claire the accounts i tried to log ins everything's frozen
25:02i can't access anything that's correct my forensic accountants have flagged every joint account for
25:08review any funds traceable to nexar is revenue or my personal holdings have been secured you'll retain
25:14access to your personal savings m which according to our records amounts to approximately eleven
25:19thousand dollars eleven thousand claire i can't live on eleven thousand dollars funny that's exactly
25:27what i started nexaris with i manage i'm sure you'll figure something out i could hear his breathing
25:31ragged panicked the breathing of a man watching his entire constructed life collapse in real time
25:38and ryan my lawyers will be filing for divorce monday morning the prenuptial agreement you signed the one
25:45you didn't bother to read because you thought i had nothing worth protecting is ear tight you'll receive
25:50exactly what it specifies nothing i hung up on the security feed i watched him stare at his phone
25:57his face a mass of disbelief then he sank onto a chair head in his hands vanessa hovered uncertain
26:04her hand reaching for his shoulder he shrugged it off violently i closed the tablet finished my
26:10champagne and poured another glass outside the sweet window the city glittered a sprawl of lights
26:16and ambition same city where i'd once coated in a basement dreaming of exactly this moment not the
26:23revenge the freedom the undeniable unshakable proof that i had built something extraordinary and no one
26:30not a cheating husband not a scheming mistress
26:35not a world that constantly underestimated quiet women could take it from me my phone buzzed a text
26:42from an unknown number hide clear it is woman to woman you don't know the full story he told me
26:48you
26:48were separated he told me you didn't care i am not the villain here asterisk i read it twice
26:54then i typed back four words sit check your employment contract asterisk and i blocked her number
27:10monday morning arrived with the precision of a scalpel i was at my desk by 6 a.m my real
27:15desk on the 42nd
27:17floor of the nexaris tower a corner office with floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the river for
27:22seven years i'd conducted business from shadow offices private residences and secure video links
27:28letting daniel serve as my public facing proxy now for the first time i was physically present in my
27:34own building and the effect was seismic employees i'd never met face-to-face snapped in hallways
27:40eyes wide some smiled nervously others whispered to colleagues a few brave souls nodded respectfully
27:47the gala footage had gone viral over the weekend 14 million views on the initial clip alone with
27:53every major news outlet running their own edit the headlines ranged from admiring to sensational
27:58billionaire ceo exposes cheating husband at own company golly the wife he never saw coming inside
28:05nexaris's bombshell reveal clap ire elliott tech's most powerful woman was hiding in plain sight
28:12my pr team had released a single measured statement nexaris technologies is committed to transparency
28:19accountability and integrity at every level personnel changes announced at the annual gala reflect these
28:25values miss elliott looks forward to leading the company into its next chapter no drama no emotion
28:31just facts the contrast with ryan's public meltdown now immortalized in a dozen camera phone videos
28:37was devastating jessica my attorney arrived at 8 a.m sharp with a leather portfolio thick enough to
28:43stop a bullet the divorce filing is ready placing it on my desk pernuptial enforcement asset separation
28:52the works ryan retained a lawyer over the weekend sem gerald marsh a mid-tier family attorney
28:59he's already making noise about hidden assets and marital deception let him make noise the prenup is
29:08ironclad he signed it willingly with independent counsel present seven years ago every clause has been
29:14reviewed annually by my legal team he's also claiming emotional distress says the public exposure at the
29:20gala caused him severe psychological harm and professional destruction he wants compensatory damages
29:26i almost laughed professional destruction his performance reviews and the real one show he was
29:32barely competent he was promoted because i allowed it not because he earned it his perfection was a fiction
29:37i funded there's more jessica continued her expression tightening he's contacting three tabloid outlets
29:43offering his side of the story for chitalminary angle loyal husband blindsided by a deceptive
29:48controlling wife who hid her wealth to manipulate and entrap him i leaned back in my chair
29:54he's gonna play the victim
30:00already is one outlet is running a piece tomorrow ryan fletcher speaks out she lied about everything
30:09i felt a familiar coldness settle in my chest not anger but calculation pull the security footage from
30:16the gala his exact words on the phone with me the text messages vanessa's fabricated performance reviews
30:22package everything and send it to our media council if he wants a public war he'll get once in but
30:28fought with evidence not emotion already anticipated that jessica said sliding a usb drive across my death
30:35everything's compiled time stamped verified and legally cleared for release good hold it for now let him
30:42publish his story first let him commit to his narrative then we'll release ours
30:48you really did plan for everything didn't you i'm a coder jessica i debug problems before they crash the system
30:55by noon the tabloid story dropped ryan photographed looking haggard and sympathetic outside a modest apartment building
31:02painted himself as a devoted husband deceived by a cold calculating wife
31:09risky told the reporter she watched me struggle
31:16she let me believe we were equals she could have helped me lifted me up
31:21instead she studied me like a lab experiment
31:25what kind of person does that the comment section erupted half the internet believed the other half
31:32faulted twitter was a war zone my name trended for 12 straight hours i waited at 6 pm i authorized
31:38the
31:39release not through a tabloid through nexarice's official channels kicked up immediately by every
31:44serious news outlet the package was clinical and devastating ryan's real performance reviews
31:50the embezzlement trail the text messages the hotel receipts security footage of him screaming asterisks
31:58do you know who i am asterisk in my guard and one final piece a short authenticated video clip
32:07from our home security system dated three weeks before the gala ryan and vanessa in our living room
32:12on our couch while i was supposedly at work the internet shifted like a tide by midnight ryan's
32:19sympathetic narrative was rubble the hashtag number she built that trended globally my inbox
32:25filled with interview requests speaking invitations and unexpectedly messages from thousands of women
32:32who saw themselves in my story i read one from a woman in ohio you showed us that being quiet
32:38isn't the
32:39same as being weak thank you
32:43i risk i stared at that message for a long time alone in my corner office the city lights blurring
32:49below
32:49then i closed my laptop and went home
32:52tomorrow there would be more but tonight
32:55the truth had spoken and it was louder than any lie ryan fletcher could ever tell
33:13three weeks after the gala the divorce proceedings began in earnest and ryan launched his counter
33:19attack i should have expected it a cornered animal doesn't retreat it bites and ryan stripped
33:24of his job his reputation and his carefully constructed identity was desperate enough to
33:29bare his teeth it started with his mother patricia fletcher a woman i tolerated for seven years of
33:35thanksgivings and forced smiles appeared on a daytime talk show dabbing her eyes with a monogrammed
33:41handkerchief my son is devastated claire manipulated him from the very beginning
33:50she married him under false pretenses she hid billions of dollars what kind of wife does that
33:56what kind of woman watches her husband struggle and says nothing the host nodded sympathetically
34:01do you believe claire targeted ryan absolutely she wanted a trophy husband someone handsome
34:07charming who'd make her look normal she used him as a prop while she built her little empire in secret
34:12and now she's thrown him away like garbage little empire guy noted the diminutive
34:1912 billion dollars and she called it swin little asterisk the same woman who'd spent the last five
34:25christmases at my vacation home in aspen drinking my wine sleeping in sheets i'd bought and never once
34:31asking how i could afford it all the interview gained traction suddenly ryan wasn't just a cheating
34:38husband he was a fardewit victim of female manipulation a growing chorus of voices online rallied behind him
34:45painting me as a calculating sociopath who'd orchestrated an elaborate trap then came the legal
34:51offensive gerald marsh ryan's attorney filed a motion claiming the prenuptial agreement was signed
34:56under materially misleading circumstances his argument i had deliberately concealed the true
35:02extent of my wealth rendering ryan's consent uninformed and therefore void if the prenup was thrown out
35:07ryan would be entitled to a significant portion of my assets potentially billions jessica called me at
35:13seven a.m they're going for the jugular claire marsh is filing in judge harman's court harman is old
35:20school skeptical of prenups and has a history of ruling in favor of the disadjuvanted spouse
35:24this is strategic forum shopping
35:29can we challenge the venue already filed but claire i need to be on a scam if they get the
35:35prenup voided
35:36this becomes a very different fight your personal holdings your trust structures even nexaris equity could be
35:42on the table my jaw tightened i had built nexaris from nothing every line of code every sleepless night
35:49every risk taken with my own damia zane and now ryan the man who never once asked what i did
35:55for a living
35:55who assumed his wife was a nobody who cheated on me in my own home wanted half of it
36:02what's our strongest defense i asked the prenup itself it was drafted by one of the best firms in
36:08the country ryan had independent counsel he signed willingly but marsh will argue that your concealment
36:13of assets constitutes fraud which could void the entire agreement i didn't conceal assets from ryan
36:17i structured my business under my maiden name for legitimate legal and liability reasons he never asked he
36:24never looked he assumed i was small and i let him that's the argument but i let him assume is
36:32a gray
36:32area legally we need to prove that ryan had every opportunity to discover the truth and chose not to
36:40i thought for a moment pull his browsing history from our home network every device i want to know if
36:47he ever sent even once and googled my name search for nexaris or looked at our financial records
36:52do you have that data i designed the home network myself every device that connects is log
37:00every search query every website visited every download sem archive for seven years
37:06claire that's him legal the network disclosure was in the household technology agreement we signed when we
37:12installed the system page 14 clause 8 he initialed it a long pause you really did think of everything
37:21i'm a systems architect jessica i build structures that don't break even when people try to tear them down
37:28that night i sat in the office the real one behind the bookshelf with six monitors and server back and
37:36pulled up seven years of ryan fletcher's digital footprint every search and every click every idle browse
37:43during the hours he thought i was just doing computer stuff he had never not once searched for claire elliott
37:49never searched for nexaris never opened a financial document a tax return or a bank statement he had
37:56however searched for vanessa holt approximately 340 times he also searched for how to hide an affair
38:03signs your wife suspects cheating and this one made my blood run cold marrying someone richer without
38:08a prenup that last search was dated four months before our wedding i stared at the screen with blue
38:15light harsh against my face he had planned this maybe not the specifics but the shape of it marrying
38:21someone who could see someone who could control someone who could eventually access he just hadn't
38:28realized the scale of what he was trying to see i saved the files for krippika and sent back to
38:34jessica
38:34a single note the difference is i have received
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