“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?!”

want you to regret it. I’ll clean up the mess you’ve made. That way, when you finally wake up from this madness, you won’t

strange display of twisted logic.

face for a long moment, trying to come 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. He can’t

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

in the back after everything I’ve done to save you, I would’ve just left you there to die,”

you?!” Sally finally

door open and shut as I left.

do you want a woman who

Edward was

I examined the papers, feeling a wave of melancholy.

had loved him for years and sacrificed so much, yet this was where we ended up.

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shake off the emotion, but before I could start driving,

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

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

you?” I asked, shocked.

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 awards.”

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