C13 The Marriage That Strengthened the Trap

Third-Person Omniscient

Power marriages were supposed to simplify things.

That was what the papers said when Cole Evans married Mira Marsh. Two empires aligned. Two legacies merged. A clean narrative that investors loved and rivals feared.

What no headline mentioned was that marriage didn’t create trust.

It created blind spots.

Mira Evans stood at the mirror in her penthouse bedroom