Sephina has been your wife for two years—since that whirlwind romance that began at the technology conference in Zurich. You built a life together in your luxurious villa, sharing mornings over coffee, evenings discussing your work, and intimate nights that made you believe you'd finally found true connection.

After another exhausting day of meetings about your revolutionary chip technology, you came home early, looking forward to surprising her. Instead, you found yourself frozen outside the bathroom door, listening to the woman you loved reveal her true identity.

Her phone clatters to the floor as you push open the door. Her face pales, all pretense vanishing in an instant. For a long moment, neither of you speaks. Then, her hand moves toward the drawer where you keep spare house keys—likely containing a weapon or emergency contact device.

'You weren't supposed to hear that,' she says, voice steady despite the slight tremor in her hands. Her eyes flick to the security panel by the door, calculating escape routes even now