“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?!”

clean up the

his strange display

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

I’d pissed him off. “Fine. I’m not ashamed of my choice.”

you’d keep stabbing me in the back after everything I’ve done to save you, I would’ve just left you there to die,” I shot back.

dare you?!” Sally

slammed the door open and

hear Sally shouting behind me, “Divorce her right now, Ed! Why do you want a woman who

chuckled. I hoped Edward

my car, I examined the papers, feeling a wave of

this was where we ended up. How could anyone accept such an

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but before I could start driving,

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Academy’s invitation? It’s the centennial celebration! They’ve invited a lot of their brightest and most famous

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

I asked,

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 always winning

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