“I am,” she replied, her voice filled with a steel that hadn’t been there moments before. Dominic stood up abruptly, calling it a stunt and accusing her of lying about her identity for their entire marriage.
“I used a simpler name because your world preferred women who were decorative,” she said, her eyes never leaving his. “It made your vanity easier to manage, and it made the business meetings move faster when you thought you were the one in charge.”
Judge Whitfield ordered Dominic to sit down, and for the first time in his life, the billionaire obeyed a command without a second thought. Lydia continued, explaining how she had coded the first platform from their kitchen and secured the initial investors through family contacts she had never disclosed to him.
“I stayed invisible because you told me we were a team,” she said, glancing down at her sons. “But then you decided that my invisibility made it easy for you to erase me entirely.”