Third Person's POV
So even though Mortimer had been ignoring her texts and calls, Vivian wanted to use tonight's gala to confront him and figure out what was going on. She needed to know if he was giving her the cold shoulder just because Seraphina had thrown a fit.
As long as she waited for Mortimer and walked in with him, the public would automatically assume they were still intimately involved.
But she never in a million years expected Seraphina to actually show up.
When Mortimer helped his wife out of the car, seeing Seraphina looking like that, Vivian practically ground her teeth into dust.
The underlying sense of threat she had always felt regarding Seraphina skyrocketed to an absolute peak the second she saw her flawless face tonight.
Once the two of them stepped inside the ba
