The Aftermath: A New Beginning
Watching their faces turn pale in a room full of the people they sought to impress was the only closure I needed. I walked out of that hall with my head high, leaving them to deal with the social and professional wreckage of their own making.
Today, the house is empty, and the silence is beautiful. My mother is tied to a man who only loved her bank account, and Mark is tied to a woman who bought his loyalty. They are trapped in a prison of their own design.
I lost a fiancé and a mother, but I found the one person I had neglected for far too long: Myself.
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