Rich People Problems-Kwan 2017 (WWT)

myself for a while longer before I can face the world I left behind.”
“Astrid! The world you left behind has changed so much. Can I please tell you what’s
been happening? I think it will help,” Charlie pleaded.
Astrid took a deep breath. “Okay, tell me what you want to tell me.”
“Well first of all, Isabel is out of her coma, and it looks like she’s on her way to a great
recovery. She’s suffered quite a bit of memory loss, and she has no clue what happened to
her that night, but she’s going to be okay.”
“Thank God,” Astrid muttered, closing her eyes.
“The other big thing that you need to know is that Michael has signed your divorce
papers with no contest.”
“What?” Astrid sat up in her chair, completely shocked. “How did this happen?”
“Well, it’s quite a tangled story, but let’s start with the leaked video. It turns out that
Isabel was the one who had the video first, not Michael. She had us under surveillance all
along. The paparazzi tailing us in India, the video of us in my bedroom, that was all her
doing.”
Astrid shook her head in disbelief. “How did she do all this?”
Charlie smiled. “You’re never going to believe it. You know that raggy old stuffed giraffe
that Delphine has?”
“Yes! The one she can’t sleep without every night?”
“It was a gift from Isabel, and it turns out there was a very sophisticated camera and
recording device implanted inside.”
“Oh my God…”
“Delphine would drag the damn stuffed animal with her between both houses, so Isabel
always knew my every move. And she got the footage of us completely by accident,
because Delphine had slept in my room the night before you came over and left the
giraffe on the chest at the foot of my bed.”
“No wonder the footage was shot from such a weird angle!” Astrid said with a little
laugh. “But how in the world did she get this sophisticated nanny cam made?”
“Michael helped her. They were in cahoots all along. It came out after Isabel’s suicide
attempt, and the police got involved investigating the source of the video clip on her
phone.”
Astrid shook her head sadly. “So they ganged up…the two bitter ex-spouses.”
“Yep. But their little partnership is also the silver lining in all this. I flew to Singapore a
few weeks ago and had a nice long chat with Michael. I told him he could withdraw the
lawsuit, sign the divorce papers, and go on enjoying his life as a billionaire bachelor, or he
could do the following: First, he could go to jail for aiding and abetting Isabel in her illegal
surveillance. Second, he could go to jail for extortion, since he stupidly sent you the video
with that text message demanding $5 billion. And third, he could go to jail for being
linked to the malicious leak of the video. By the time the Singapore court system is done
with all the charges that I would bring against him, he could very well spend the rest of