I watched my own body fold toward the floor.
Nora made a sound beside me and reached for the screen.
“Don’t,” I said.
The video continued.
Flynn dropped the knife. Selina stepped backward. For one second, she looked genuinely shocked—not at my blood, but at how far he had gone. Then Flynn moved to her, placed his jacket around her, and turned his back on me.
Selina looked down.
Her mouth curved.
I had not imagined it.
Then came the part I never remembered.
Selina walked toward the hallway. Flynn finally knelt beside me and touched my neck. His face changed when he found a pulse. He said my name twice. Selina told him they had to call an ambulance.
Flynn looked at the knife.
He looked at me.
Then he said, “Tell them she fell on it.”
My skin went cold.
Selina stared at him. “Twice?”
He swore under his breath, grabbed his phone, and finally called emergency services.
That sentence ended whatever remained of my marriage.
Not the arrest that followed. Not the headlines. Not the board of Vance Global placing Flynn on immediate leave. Not even the knowledge that he had nearly killed me and our unborn children.
Tell them she fell on it.
He had looked at my bleeding body and tried to build a version of the world where I was responsible for that too.
The police arrested him before noon.
Selina was questioned separately. She denied planning any violence and insisted she had come to the house because she wanted Flynn’s support. She admitted she had exaggerated what happened between us earlier that week, but claimed the scratch was accidental and that she never expected him to use the knife.
The problem was her timeline.
She told investigators I had shoved her outside a charity office less than an hour before she came to the penthouse.
The building where she claimed it happened had access logs. My phone had not left my home. The penthouse elevator camera showed me receiving a grocery delivery during the same period. More importantly, Selina’s own car entered the parking garage beneath her apartment building after the time she said I attacked her.
Investigators obtained additional footage from that garage.
It showed her getting out of the car without holding her arm. It showed her standing beside the driver’s door for several minutes, looking at her phone. When she entered the penthouse building later, she was cradling the scratch.
That did not prove how the scratch happened.
It proved her story did not.
Flynn learned that from his attorney.
