Withered Love

1.

There was a running joke in the Upper East Side’s elite circle:

"Harper catches a cheater twice as fast as Julian can cheat."

Whenever a husband in our circle strayed, I was always brought up as the cautionary tale of the "crazy wife."

At cocktail parties, they’d whisper behind their champagne flutes, "She’s practically a madwoman. No trophy wife should ever lose her dignity like that."

But this time, I shocked the entire New York social scene.

When the paparazzi shoved high-definition