Chapter 2 Back at my firm . I locked myself in my office . ] Called my partner Vivian right away . ] " Need a favor . " My voice was steady , ice - cold steady ] " Dig up everything on Nora Lopez - especially her communications with Marcus , any money transfers , the works . " ] " Also pull all of Sterling & Associates ' recent cases , especially anything that conflicts with ours . " ] ] Vivian went quiet for a moment , then her tone got serious . This gets into private territory . You really want to go there ? " " Positive . " ] After I hung up , I sat there in the dark , mind spinning . Didn't take long for Marcus to call . ] " Harper , babe , don't read into this . " He was doing his whole calm , reassuring thing . ] * Nora's just a junior associate . I'm mentoring her , that's all . " ] " You're the only one I love , my sunshine . " Sunshine - used to be my favorite nickname . ] ] Now it just made me want to puke . ] Maybe I was his sunshine once , but he'd clearly drifted out of my orbit a long time ago . I gave him some generic responses and hung up . ] Vivian works scary fast . Less than an hour later , I got her message . ] Clicked the link- The cloud drive was full of Nora's private IG posts , organized by date with photos and captions ] The latest post was a close up of that fountain pen , MY pen , with the caption : [ Using M's pen to write our future . The sunshine is mine alone . ] ]] My sunshine nickname , my custom pen - all turned into another woman's trophies . ] I scrolled down , expressionless . Next post showed two people holding hands with movie tickets to " Nobody 2 " -dated on our anniversary , when he claimed to be on a business trip to Seattle . I flipped to Valentine's Day and almost dropped my phone . The photo was taken in our bedroom . OUR bedroom ! Nora was wearing MY silk robe , looking all sultry and satisfied . [ ] I started shaking uncontrollably . Don't know how much time passed before a notification sound snapped me back to reality around midnight . ] Court filing system had sent me a document . Evidence exchange and examination points for " Pacific Industries v . TH Corp - the case I was lead counsel on . ] Plaintiff's attorney listed : Nora Lopez . I opened the attachment and read through it line by line . ] ] When I got to the witness examination outline , my blood turned to ice . ] Every single question , every psychological trap - it was identical to my confidential final draft that no one else had ever seen . My secret weapon for destroying the other side in court . I bolted to Marcus's study . [ ] On his desk was an open notebook . In his messy handwriting , clear as day : analysis of our witnesses backgrounds and several brilliant interrogation angles that only an insider could know . Title : " For Nora . " He wasn't just cheating on our marriage - he was personally destroying my career , using my own work to pave his mistress's path to success . I doubled over , hit by a wave of nausea so intense I had to grab the wall to stay upright . Turns out when someone who knows you inside and out stabs you , it really does cut the deepest . ]