While Julian continued to boast and laugh with the crowd, convinced that his wealth and power made him entirely untouchable, Evelyn moved with lightning speed. Pushing herself off the marble floor, the mother in the green satin gown rose to her feet in one fluid motion. Before Julian could even turn his head, Evelyn planted her stance and delivered a swift, powerful kick directly to the side of his knee joint. The heavy impact tore through the room, catching the billionaire completely off balance and shattering his arrogant composure in a single fraction of a second.
Julian let out an agonizing scream, his leg buckling instantly under the force of the strike. He collapsed heavily onto the black-and-white checkered floor, clutching his injured knee while writhing in pain as the surrounding high-society guests recoiled in absolute terror. Victoria gasped, dropping her champagne glass onto the tiles where it shattered into a hundred pieces. The entire ballroom fell into a stunned, frozen silence as the man who had just dominated the room lay weeping on the floor, completely helpless before the woman he had dared to strike.