Rebirth: A Second Chance

t go far. His ego was too big to accept defeat so easily. She waited a few minute

iel,

He turned, a flicker of triumph in

al. "It was buzzing nonstop while you were in the sho

s composure completely shattered. "It' s... it' s just a colleague," he s

button repeatedly. Olivia watched him go, a co

he time he got down. She slipped out a side entrance and circled around to the parking garage, keeping to the shado

of entitled confidence. She leaned against Daniel' s car, waiting. When Daniel emerged from the garage elevator, her fa

omach. She watched them, a voyeur to her own betrayal. It was one thing to know, to suspect, to find evi

ckered open during the k

face. She deliberately wrapped her legs around Daniel' s waist, deepening the kiss, making a soft, moaning sound that was clear

s, her nails digging into her palms. The pain helped anchor her, helped

ys been there, a shadow lurking in the background? Had his late-night "business meetings" and "work trips" all been for her? The lies, the years of them, s

ospital bed, at the hands of her own son. The woman sta

in the dim light. She held the phone steady, capturing every sordid detail: th

her. Fine. She would make sure it

the sound lost in the cavernous garage. "Because I' m g

of their love. Instead, she would turn it into the public execution of their reputations. She would use their own affair to burn their world to the ground. The thought didn't bring her joy, but it br