“Oh yeah? Maybe you should congratulate me on my rebirth. I’m no longer the kind of idiotic doormat everyone could walk over,” 1 retorted.

Everything I’d gone through in the past few weeks felt like cleansing fire. I was reborn from it, like a phoenix.

1 should be proud that I survived it, and now my life and career were at new heights.

Had I been even a little weaker or more naïve, I would have been burned to ashes. I wouldn’t be standing here, listening to him react with shock at my transformation.

The Kennedys watched me in stunned silence.

I sighed, tucking the form back into my bag. “Get well soon I’ll be waiting.”

I turned to leave and opened the door.

“Taylor, I’ll help Mr. Jones out of this,” Edward declared.

“Are you nuts?!” I spun around, perplexed. “What good will that do?!”

“I’ll be able to help you,” he claimed.

“What?!”

you to regret it. I’ll clean up the mess you’ve made. That way, when you finally

by his strange display of twisted logic.

up with the most convincing response to this absurd justification. “Are you… hoping he will donate his blood for you?! Mr. Kennedy, he’s an old man with multiple diseases.

tell I’d pissed him off. “Fine. I’m not ashamed of

whatever you like. If I had known you’d keep stabbing me in the back after everything I’ve done to save you,

how dare you?!” Sally finally roared.

open and shut

Sally shouting behind me, “Divorce her right now, Ed! Why do you want a woman who doesn’t even respect

I hoped Edward was a

examined the

had loved him for years and sacrificed so much, yet this was where we ended up. How could anyone accept such

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the emotion, but before I

+25 BONUS

It’s the centennial celebration! They’ve invited a lot of their brightest and most famous alumni to come

the National Academy, from high school onward. She graduated from the finance program.

I asked,

faculty dean contacted me. I’m sure yours did, too. Your final–year project is still proudly displayed in their cabinet, sis. And you’re a celebrated fashion designer who’s

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