The luxury yacht Desert Rose sits in Monaco Harbor like a floating palace.

It’s 2:30 in the morning.

Expensive champagne glasses lie empty on the marble deck.

A white wedding dress floats in the dark Mediterranean water like a ghost.

Emily Carter had exactly 8 hours of married life before it ended in murder.

Wedding photos are scattered across the deck.

Some are torn, some have blood on them.

The cleaning crew works quietly, washing away red stains that tell a story the world will never hear.

What happened on this billiondollar yacht? Where is Emily Carter now? And why is her new husband already planning her funeral while the world thinks she just ran away? Emily Carter wasn’t born into money.

She came from a small town in Texas where dreams go to die.

Her mother worked three jobs just to keep food on the table.

Gas station cashier in the morning.

diner waitress in the afternoon cleaning offices at night.

Emily learned early that life wasn’t fair.

While other kids got new clothes for school, she wore hammer downs.

While they had birthday parties, she had empty promises that maybe next year would be better.

But Emily was smart and she was beautiful.

Most importantly, she could make people believe anything she wanted them to believe.

Her first con happened when she was just 16.

She created a fake charity for her dying grandmother who needed expensive cancer treatment.

She made flyers.

She cried real tears telling the story.

She raised $3,000 in 2 weeks from her small town neighbors.

There was no dying grandmother.

Emily used the money to buy a car and get out of that deadend town forever.

College was supposed to be her fresh start, but textbooks cost money.

Dorm rooms cost money.

Everything cost money that Emily didn’t have.

So, she dropped out after one semester and moved to Miami.

Miami was where Emily learned that wealthy old men were lonely.

They had money but no one to share it with.

They wanted to feel young again.

They wanted to feel important.

Emily could give them that feeling.

She created fake dating profiles.

She said she was an art student.

She said she came from a good family.

She said all the right things.

Within 6 months, she was living in a penthouse apartment paid for by a 60-year-old real estate developer who thought he was in love.

That relationship lasted eight months.

When it ended, Emily walked away with $50,000 in gifts and a BMW.

The man never knew he’d been played.

But then something happened that Emily never planned for.

She got pregnant.

The father was just a one night stand.

some guy she met at a bar whose name she couldn’t even remember.

Emily was 19, alone and scared.

She couldn’t take care of a baby.

She could barely take care of herself.

So, she made the hardest choice of her life.

She gave birth to a baby boy she named Marcus.

She held him for one day.

She kissed his forehead.

And then she gave him to a wealthy family who could give him everything she couldn’t.

Emily told the adoption agency that the father was dead.

She told them she had no family.

She made sure there would be no way for anyone to trace the baby back to her.

Marcus would grow up thinking his birth mother had disappeared forever.

For Emily, every lie was a stepping stone away from poverty.

Every con was another chance to escape the life she was born into.

She didn’t see herself as a criminal.

She saw herself as a survivor.

and she was about to meet the man who would make all her dreams come true or kill her trying.

Kaled al-Mansor is worth $8.

2 billion.

His oil empire stretches across three countries.

His name appears on university buildings and hospital wings.

When he speaks, world leaders listen.

At 65, Khaled has everything money can buy.

private jets, multiple mansions, art collections worth more than most count’s budgets.

He owns a $200 million mega yacht that’s basically a floating city.

To the world, Khaled is the perfect wealthy gentleman.

He donates millions to charity.

He speaks at conferences about business ethics.

He’s been married three times to beautiful women who all seemed to adore him.

But there’s something the world doesn’t know about Khaled Almansaw.

His first wife, Amamira, was 22 when they married.

She disappeared from public view after 2 years.

The divorce was quiet.

She got a settlement and signed papers that she would never talk about their marriage.

She moved to another country and was never seen again.

His second wife, Leila, was 24.

Same story.

After 3 years of marriage, she vanished from society.

Another quiet divorce.

Another settlement.

Another woman who agreed to never speak about what happened behind closed doors.

His third wife, Nardia, lasted 5 years.

She was 26 when they married.

She also disappeared from public life before their divorce was announced.

The pattern was clear to anyone paying attention.

Khaled didn’t just marry young, beautiful women.

He erased them.

He couldn’t stand any threat to his perfect public image.

He was obsessed with control.

What happened in his private life stayed private no matter what it cost.

The megaot desert rose was where Kull hosted the world’s elite presidents, movie stars, tech billionaires.

They all came to party on his floating palace in Monaco Harbor.

They all thought he was the perfect host.

None of them knew about the room below deck where Cullled kept his secrets.

None of them suspected that their charming host was capable of murder.

December 2023, Dubai, the annual charity gala for Middle Eastern children’s hospitals.

The ballroom is filled with the world’s richest people pretending to care about poor kids while sipping champagne that costs more than most people make in a year.

Emily Carter walks into the room wearing a black dress that cost her two months of savings.

But she doesn’t look out of place.

She never does.

That’s her gift.

She spent three weeks studying Khaled Almansaw.

She knows he’ll be here tonight.

She knows he sits at table 12.

She knows he drinks only French champagne.

She knows he gets bored easily at these events.

Emily has created a new identity for this job.

She’s now an art consultant from a famous London gallery.

She has business cards.

She has a fake website.

She has references that will check out if anyone calls.

But Emily’s real weapon isn’t her fake identity.

It’s her ability to read people.

And she can see exactly what colored Almansaw needs.

He’s surrounded by people who want his money.

Every conversation is about business deals or charity donations.

Every woman who talks to him is obviously impressed by his wealth.

He’s bored.

He’s lonely.

He wants someone who sees him as more than just a walking bank account.

So when Emily finally approaches him near the auction table, she doesn’t mention his money at all.

“That painting is a fake,” she says, looking at a piece being auctioned for charity.

Colored looks surprised.

“Are you sure? I’m an art expert.

The brush strokes are wrong.

Someone’s going to pay half a million dollars for a copy.

” Emily walks away without introducing herself.

She doesn’t ask for his number.

She doesn’t even look back.

For the first time in years, someone has told Kullid al-Mansur something he didn’t know.

Someone has walked away from him instead of chasing his attention.

Someone has treated him like a regular person instead of a god.

His instantly fascinated.

Within an hour, Cull has found out Emily’s name.

His looked up her gallery.

His decided he absolutely must see her again.

The hunt has begun.

The next morning, Emily’s phone rings.

It’s colored.

His voice is smooth, confident.

I can’t stop thinking about what you said last night.

About the painting.

Emily smiles.

The hook is set.

“Would you like to have coffee and tell me more about art?” he asks.

But Emily doesn’t say yes right away.

She plays hard to get.

“I’m very busy this week,” she says.

“Maybe next month.

” This drives Colored crazy.

No one ever says no to him.

No one ever makes him wait.

It makes him want her even more.

Emily spends the next three days creating her perfect fake life.

She builds a website for her fake London art gallery.

She creates social media accounts going back 5 years.

She photoshops herself into pictures at art shows and museum openings.

She writes fake articles about art that make her sound like an expert.

She creates a tragic backstory.

Both parents died in a car crash when she was 18.

No brothers or sisters, no family at all.

She had to work her way through art school alone.

She learned to be strong because she had no choice.

It’s the perfect story to make colored want to protect her.

Emily hires actors to be her fake references.

She pays them to answer phone calls and talk about how wonderful she is to work with.

She even finds a woman in London who will pretend to be her gallery owner if anyone calls.

When Emily finally agrees to meet Colored for Coffee, she wears simple clothes.

No makeup.

She wants to look natural, not like she’s trying to impress him.

She shows up 5 minutes late.

She orders just black coffee, nothing expensive.

Everything about her says she doesn’t care about his money.

At coffee, Emily tells Colored about her dead parents.

She gets tears in her eyes talking about how alone she felt after they died.

She says she doesn’t trust people easily because everyone always leaves.

Colored feels like he wants to hold her and promise he’ll never leave her.

Within 2 weeks, Cullled is flying Emily to Paris to see art museums, then Rome, then New York.

Each trip gets more expensive.

He buys her jewelry that costs more than most people’s houses.

But Emily acts like the gifts don’t matter.

She says she just enjoys spending time with him.

Emily makes Cullled feel like the most interesting man in the world.

She asks him about his business.

She listens to his stories about growing up rich.

She makes him feel smart and important.

But most of all, she makes him feel needed like she’s this strong, independent woman who doesn’t need anyone, but she chooses to be with him.

For 6 months, Emily plays her role perfectly.

She never slips up.

She never forgets her fake stories.

She becomes the woman Cullled thinks he’s falling in love with.

But Emily’s real life is very different.

When she’s not with Cullled, she’s still running small cons.

She sells fake designer bags online.

She pretends to be different people to get money from lonely men on dating apps.

She needs the extra cash to maintain her expensive lifestyle with Cullled.

The hardest part is Marcus.

Every Tuesday and Friday, Emily calls her seven-year-old son on a secret phone.

She tells him she’s his aunt who lives far away.

Marcus doesn’t know she’s his real mother.

The adoption family thinks Emily is a relative who wants to stay in touch.

Emily loves those phone calls more than anything.

Marcus tells her about school and his friends.

He shows her his drawings through the video call.

Sometimes he asks why his aunt can’t visit him.

Emily always makes up excuses, but it breaks her heart every time.

Emily genuinely loves her son, but she’s trapped by her own lies.

If she tells the truth about Marcus, her whole fake identity falls apart.

If her fake identity falls apart, she loses Cullled.

And Cullled might be her only chance at the kind of money that could really change her life.

Emily has scammed a lot of men before Cullled.

There was Robert, the tech CEO, who thought he was dating a medical student.

She got $80,000 from him.

There was James, the oil executive, who believed she was a struggling artist.

He paid her rent for 8 months.

There was David, the restaurant owner, who bought her a car because he thought she was a charity worker helping homeless kids.

But Cullled is different.

He’s not just rich, he’s super rich.

The kind of rich where Emily would never have to worry about money again.

The kind of rich where she could take care of Marcus forever.

This isn’t just another con.

This is her retirement plan.

The problem is Emily is starting to actually like Cullled.

He’s kind to her.

He listens when she talks.

He remembers little things she says.

When she fake cries about her fake dead parents, he holds her and makes her feel safe.

Sometimes Emily forgets she’s acting.

But as Emily gets closer to Cullled, he starts getting more controlling.

He wants to know where she is all the time.

He gets jealous when she talks to other men, even waiters.

He starts making comments about her clothes, suggesting she wear different things.

He says it’s because he cares about her, but it feels like he’s trying to own her.

Khaled also hires private investigators to check Emily’s background.

He tells Emily it’s just standard procedure because he’s famous and has to be careful.

But Emily knows he’s testing her.

Her fake identity is good, but it’s not perfect.

There are small holes that a good investigator might find.

Emily has several close calls.

One time, Cullled’s assistant almost discovers that Emily’s gallery website was created just 6 months ago.

Another time, someone at a party thinks they recognize Emily from a dating app where she was using a different name.

Emily has to think fast and lie her way out of these situations.

The pressure builds when Cullled proposes.

He does it at a huge charity event in front of 200 people.

Cameras are rolling.

Everyone is watching.

Emily can’t say no without causing a scene that would make Cullled look stupid.

She says yes, but inside she’s panicking.

Planning a wedding to a billionaire is like planning a royal wedding.

Khaled wants 500 guests.

He wants it on his yacht in Monaco.

He wants it covered by international magazines.

The wedding will cost $5 million.

Emily realizes this isn’t just a wedding.

It’s a public event that will put her fake life under a microscope.

The worst part is the paperwork.

Khaled wants medical records.

He wants family history.

He wants background checks.

He says it’s normal for people at his level.

But Emily knows some of these documents will be impossible to fake.

Emily starts having panic attacks.

She can’t sleep.

She’s making mistakes in her lies.

She realizes she has two choices.

She can try to disappear before the wedding and lose everything, or she can marry Cullled and hope she can keep her secrets forever.

But there’s a third option that Emily starts considering.

What if she tells Kull the truth? Not all of it, but some of it.

What if she confesses on their wedding night when they’re married and alone? Maybe if she explains everything.

Maybe if she cries and begs for forgiveness, maybe Cullled will understand.

Emily decides to take the biggest gamble of her life.

She’ll marry Cull and then she’ll tell him the truth.

She hopes that love will be stronger than lies.

She hopes that Khaled will forgive her because he can’t live without her.

Emily has no idea that Kaled Almansaw has killed before and he’s about to kill again.

March 15th, 2024.

Monaco Harbor.

The wedding day Emily has been dreading and dreaming about for months.

Khaled’s megaot desert rose is decorated like a floating palace.

White flowers everywhere, red carpets, golden chairs set up on the main deck for 500 of the world’s most powerful people.

Emily stands in the bridal suite, looking at herself in the mirror.

Her wedding dress cost more than most people make in 5 years.

Diamonds sparkle around her neck.

Her makeup is perfect, but her hands won’t stop shaking.

She takes two anxiety pills and washes them down with champagne.

She practices her smile in the mirror.

She tells herself she just has to get through today.

Tonight she’ll tell Cull everything.

Tonight, this nightmare will finally be over.

Outside, guests are arriving by helicopter and private boat.

European royalty, Hollywood movie stars, tech billionaires, oil executives, the kind of people who usually only meet at secret meetings that decide the fate of countries.

They’re all here to watch Kaled Almansaw marry his perfect bride.

Khaled has never been happier.

His wearing a custom suit that cost $50,000.

His smile is genuine as he greets his guests.

He truly believes his found the woman of his dreams.

Someone pure and honest.

Someone who loves him for who he is, not what he owns.

Someone who will be the perfect mother to his children.

The ceremony begins at sunset.

Emily walks down the aisle as a string quartet plays.

The Mediterranean sparkles behind them like diamonds.

Cameras flash as the world’s media captures every moment of this fairy tale wedding.

Emily’s smile never slips, even though she feels like she’s walking to her own execution.

She says her vows in a clear, strong voice.

She promises to love colored forever.

She promises to be honest and faithful.

Each word feels like a knife cutting her throat.

Khaled’s vows are beautiful.

He talks about finding his soulmate.

He talks about spending the rest of his life making Emily happy.

He talks about the children they’ll have together.

Emily almost breaks down crying, knowing that in a few hours she’ll destroy every dream he’s describing.

When Colored kisses his bride, the crowd explodes in applause.

Fireworks light up the Monaco sky.

The band plays as guests move to the reception area.

Emily and Colored dance their first dance while hundreds of people watch and take pictures for 4 hours.

Emily plays the perfect bride.

She laughs at jokes.

She poses for photos.

She thanks guests for coming.

She cuts the cake and feeds colored a bite while everyone cheers.

But inside, she’s counting down the minutes until she has to face the truth.

At 11 p.

m.

, the last guests finally leave.

The yacht crew starts cleaning up while Emily and Colored retreat to the master cabin.

This is the most expensive room on the yacht.

Everything is marble and gold.

The bed is bigger than most people’s apartments.

Floor to ceiling windows show the lights of Monaco sparkling like stars.

Rose petals are scattered across the bed.

Champagne sits in an ice bucket.

Soft music plays from hidden speakers.

Khaled has planned the perfect romantic evening with his new wife.

Emily goes into the bathroom and takes another anxiety pill.

She looks at herself in the mirror and practices what she’s going to say.

Cullled, I need to tell you something important.

Her voice sounds weak and scared.

She tries again.

Cullled, I love you, but I haven’t been completely honest.

Still not right.

Colored is on the bed opening another bottle of champagne.

His changed into silk pajamas.

His eyes are bright with love and desire.

His planning to make love to his pure, perfect wife.

He has no idea that everything he believes about her is a lie.

Emily comes out of the bathroom wearing a white silk night gown.

She sits on the edge of the bed as far from Cullled as possible.

Her heart is beating so fast she thinks it might explode.

Cullled.

She says, “I need to tell you something.

” Her voice is shaking.

Cullled notices immediately.

He sets down his champagne and moves closer to her.

“What’s wrong, my love?” he asks.

His voice is gentle.

Concerned.

“Are you nervous?” “It’s okay.

We’re married now.

We have our whole lives together.

” Emily starts crying.

Real tears this time, not the fake ones she’s used so many times before.

I haven’t been honest with you, she whispers.

Cullled’s face changes.

The smile disappears.

What do you mean? My name isn’t Emily Carter, she says.

Well, it is now, but it wasn’t always.

And I’m not from London.

I’m from Texas, a poor town in Texas.

Khaled sits back.

He’s confused.

Not angry yet.

I don’t understand.

My parents didn’t die in a car crash.

Emily continues.

My father left when I was little.

My mother worked three jobs just to keep us alive.

I dropped out of college because I couldn’t afford it.

I moved to Miami and I I started lying to men, rich men.

I would pretend to be someone else and they would give me money.

The confusion on Cull’s face is turning into something else, something colder.

I’m not an art expert, Emily says.

I’ve never worked at a gallery in London.

I learned about art from books and the internet so I could fool you.

I studied you for weeks before we met.

I knew exactly what you wanted to hear.

Cullled stands up.

His face is completely blank now.

Go on, he says quietly.

Emily is sobbing now.

And I have a son.

His name is Marcus.

He’s 7 years old.

I gave him up for adoption when he was a baby because I couldn’t take care of him.

But I still call him.

I’ve been calling him our whole relationship.

I told him I’m his aunt.

Khaled doesn’t move, doesn’t speak, just stares at Emily like she’s a stranger.

I’ve been lying about everything, Emily says.

But my love for you is real.

I started this as a con, but I fell in love with you.

That’s why I’m telling you the truth now.

Because I can’t lie to you anymore.

Because I want our marriage to be real.

Emily reaches for Cullled’s hand.

Please forgive me.

I know I should have told you sooner, but I was scared.

I was scared you wouldn’t love me if you knew the truth.

But we’re married now.

We can start over.

I’ll never lie to you again.

Cullled pulls his hand away.

He walks to the window and stares out at Monaco.

The silence stretches for what feels like hours.

When Cullled finally turns around, Emily doesn’t recognize the man looking at her.

His eyes are cold, “Dad, like looking at a shark.

You made me look like a fool,” he says.

His voice is quiet, but somehow more terrifying than if he was screaming.

“No,” Emily says.

Nobody knows.

I’m telling you first.

We can figure this out together.

500 people watched me marry a lie tonight.

Cullled says, “The whole world thinks I’m married to someone who doesn’t exist.

” I exist, Emily says desperately.

I’m right here.

I’m your wife.

You’re a con artist, Cullled says.

A cheap little con artist who thought she could steal from me.

Cullled starts walking toward Emily.

She backs away until she hits the wall.

I can disappear, Emily says quickly.

I’ll leave tonight.

I’ll go back to America.

You can tell everyone I had a breakdown or something.

You can get the marriage anulled.

No one has to know what really happened.

But colored keeps coming.

You think I can just let you go? You think you can destroy my reputation and then run away? Emily realizes she’s made a terrible mistake.

This isn’t the kind, gentle man she thought she married.

This is someone else entirely, someone dangerous.

You know too much, Cullled says, about my other wives, about my business, about me.

Emily tries to run past him, but Cullled grabs her arm.

He’s stronger than he looks.

Much stronger.

Please, Emily begs.

I won’t tell anyone anything.

I swear.

I just want to go home.

You are home, Cullled says.

This is where you’ll stay forever.

Emily fights as hard as she can.

She scratches Cullled’s face.

She tries to scream, but his hand covers her mouth.

She kicks and punches, but is too strong.

Colored grabs a rope from the yacht’s equipment.

Emily’s eyes go wide with terror as she realizes what’s about to happen.

This is what happens to people who try to make me look stupid, Cullled says calmly.

Emily Carter dies at 1:47 a.

m.

on March 16th, 2024.

Her last thought is of Marcus and how he’ll never know what happened to the aunt who used to call him twice a week.

The luxury that was supposed to be Emily’s dream becomes her tomb.

And colored Alman Mansau starts planning how to make sure no one ever finds out what really happened to his bride.

For 30 minutes, Ked Almansaw sits next to his dead wife’s body.

He doesn’t cry.

He doesn’t panic.

He doesn’t feel guilty.

He just thinks, he plans.

He calculates exactly what he needs to do to make this problem disappear forever.

This isn’t the first time Khaled has killed someone.

It won’t be the last.

But this time is different because the whole world watched him get married just hours ago.

This time he needs to be perfect.

First colored cleans under his fingernails.

Emily scratched his face during the fight, so her DNA is probably under there.

He uses bleach to scrub his hands and arms.

He changes clothes and puts everything he was wearing into a bag.

The yacht has industrial equipment for cleaning fish that rich guests catch during fishing trips.

Cullled uses this equipment for a different purpose.

Within 2 hours, there’s nothing left of Emily Carter except memories.

Cullled takes Emily’s body far out into international waters where no country has the right to investigate.

The Mediterranean Sea is deep here, very deep.

He weighs down what’s left and watches it sink into the darkness.

Emily will never be found.

Not by police, not by family, not by anyone.

Back on the yacht, Colored cleans everything.

His methodical and careful.

He knows exactly what evidence to look for because he’s done this before.

Blood, hair, fingerprints, DNA.

He scrubs every surface with industrial cleaner.

He replaces the bed sheets and curtains.

He even repaints part of the wall where Emily’s blood splattered.

When the sun comes up over Monaco, the yacht looks exactly like it did before the wedding.

Perfect, clean, innocent.

At 8:00 a.

m.

, Cull starts making phone calls.

“His voice is shaky, like a man in shock.

He calls his assistant first.

” Emily’s gone, he says.

She left me a note saying she couldn’t go through with the marriage.

She took one of the speedboats and disappeared.

The assistant is confused.

She seemed so happy at the wedding.

Sir, I guess it was all an act.

Cullled says sadly.

She said in the note that she felt trapped, that she needed to be free.

She said not to look for her.

Khaled calls Emily’s few friends next.

He tells them the same story.

Emily had a panic attack in the middle of the night.

She said she couldn’t handle being married to someone so famous.

She said she needed to disappear and start over somewhere else.

Some of Emily’s friends don’t believe it.

They know Emily wanted financial security more than anything.

Why would she run away from a billionaire who loved her? But colored sounds so sad and confused that they start to doubt themselves.

By noon, the story is all over social media.

Billionaire’s bride runs away on wedding night.

The media loves it because it fits a perfect narrative.

Poor girl from Texas gets overwhelmed by rich lifestyle and panics.

It happens all the time in movies.

The Monaco police have to investigate because Emily is officially a missing person, but they don’t try very hard.

The detective assigned to the case is more interested in getting selfies with Cullled than actually looking for evidence.

The police interview Cullled on his yacht.

He shows them Emily’s fake suicide note, which he wrote himself on her laptop.

He explains that Emily was acting strange all week.

He says she told him she felt like she was living a lie.

Did you have any arguments? The detective asks.

No.

Cullled lies smoothly.

We were completely happy.

That’s what makes this so shocking.

I thought we were going to spend our lives together.

The police searched the yacht, but they don’t find anything.

Colored cleaned too well.

There’s no blood, no signs of struggle, no evidence that anything violent happened.

Just a missing bride and a heartbroken husband.

The police file their report.

No evidence of foul play.

Emily Carter left voluntarily.

Case closed.

The media eats up Cullled’s performance.

He gives interviews where he looks genuinely heartbroken.

He talks about how much he loved Emily.

He says he hopes she finds happiness wherever she is.

He even offers a reward for information about her location, knowing that no information will ever come.

I just want to know she’s safe, Ked tells CNN with tears in his eyes.

If she doesn’t want to be married to me, I understand.

I just want to know she’s okay.

The world feels sorry for Kullid Almansaw, the poor billionaire who got his heart broken by a gold digger who couldn’t handle the pressure of being rich and famous.

Emily has no family to fight for her.

Her mother died 3 years ago.

She has no siblings.

Her few friends believe colored story because they don’t know about Emily’s real past.

They don’t know she was a con artist who might have other enemies.

The case falls through the cracks between countries.

Emily was American, but she disappeared in Monaco.

The FBI says it’s not their jurisdiction.

Monaco police say there’s no evidence of crime.

Nobody takes responsibility for finding out what really happened.

Within a month, Cullled’s team starts creating fake evidence that Emily is alive.

Someone who looks like Emily is spotted at an airport in Brazil.

Emily’s bank account shows activity in Thailand.

Her social media accounts post photos from different countries with captions like starting my new life and finally free.

Of course, these posts are all fake.

Cullled pays people to create them, but they convince the world that Emily Carter is alive somewhere, living under a new identity.

6 months after Emily’s murder, Khull is dating again.

A 24year-old model from Russia who doesn’t speak much English.

The media calls it a rebound relationship.

They say Khull is trying to heal his broken heart, but the people who know Khaled’s history see a different pattern.

This is what he does.

He marries young, beautiful women.

Then they disappear.

Then he moves on to the next one.

His first wife, Amamira, supposedly moved to Canada after their divorce, but no one has seen her in 10 years.

His second wife, Ila, allegedly lives in Switzerland now, but she’s never been spotted there.

His third wife, Nardia, apparently started a new life in Australia.

But Australian immigration has no record of her entering the country.

Emily Carter is just the latest woman to vanish from colored Almansour’s life.

But because he’s rich and powerful, no one connects the dots.

No one asks the hard questions.

No one investigates the pattern.

Meanwhile, Marcus is growing up in his adoptive family’s house in California.

He’s 8 years old now.

Sometimes he asks his parents about the aunt who used to call him.

The aunt who promised to visit but never did.

The aunt who suddenly stopped calling with no explanation.

His parents tell him that sometimes adults have to go away for work.

They say maybe his aunt will call again someday.

They don’t know that his aunt was actually his mother.

They don’t know that she’s been dead for over a year.

Marcus will grow up never knowing that his mother loved him enough to die trying to create a better life for both of them.

He’ll never know that Emily’s last thought before Kull killed her was about him.

Khaled Almansaw’s empire keeps growing.

His oil companies make billions of dollars.

His charitable foundation gets praised for helping poor children around the world.

World leaders shake his hand and ask for his advice.

He’s invited to speak at conferences about business ethics and social responsibility.

No one knows that this respected businessman is actually a serial killer who has murdered at least four women.

No one knows that his charity work is just a way to meet more young, vulnerable women who might become his next victims.

The truth about Emily Carter’s final night died with her in the deep waters of the Mediterranean Sea.

Only the readers of this story know what really happened.

Only we know that evil sometimes wins when money can buy silence and power corrupts justice.

Khaled Alman Mansor is still out there, still hunting, still killing.

And the world still thinks he’s a hero.

But Khaled doesn’t know he’s not the hunter.

He’s the prey.