Chapter 129

• I stared at Vivian, but the woman before me was nothing like the one I had once admired. She was cold, calculating, and distant like a shadow of the person I had loved. The woman I had sacrificed everything for. My career, my future, my integrity all of it, for her.
• I had once believed in her vision, in her ideals of loyalty and righteousness. She had told me that women like her didn’t belong on the sidelines, that they had a responsibility to take charge, to fight for what they believed in.
• That vision had burned bright in her eyes back then, and I had followed it without question.