{"id":24875,"date":"2025-08-01T21:26:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T21:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=24875"},"modified":"2025-08-01T21:28:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T21:28:02","slug":"24875","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=24875","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTen million,\u201d I said with a grin. \u201cFake, of course. Just a prop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She laughed, but her hands lingered on the handle. \u201cYou trust me with it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course,\u201d I said. \u201cYou\u2019re my wife.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said she\u2019d stash it in the closet for the night. I went to bed feeling like a king.<\/p>\n<p>The next morning, she was gone. So was the bag. Her phone\u2014dead. In the kitchen, just a folded note:<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for the money, babe. I\u2019m starting over with my boyfriend. Good luck starting from scratch. \u2014 Ria<\/p>\n<p>I stood there for a second, stunned. Then I laughed. Loud and long.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=24877\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23467\" src=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/340C4489-16D4-4656-9B02-A344BA7D4DAB-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"905\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/340C4489-16D4-4656-9B02-A344BA7D4DAB-1.jpeg 905w, https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/340C4489-16D4-4656-9B02-A344BA7D4DAB-1-300x75.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/340C4489-16D4-4656-9B02-A344BA7D4DAB-1-768x191.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 905px) 100vw, 905px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTen million,\u201d I said with a grin. \u201cFake, of course. Just a prop.\u201d She laughed, but her hands lingered on the handle. \u201cYou trust me with it?\u201d \u201cOf course,\u201d I said. \u201cYou\u2019re my wife.\u201d She said she\u2019d stash it in the closet for the night. I went to bed feeling like a king. The next&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=24875\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24875"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24875"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24879,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24875\/revisions\/24879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}