Love's End, Her New Beginning

ped build an empire with, sketching user interfaces on napk

piring influencer all wide eyes and sof

er "pure," while subtly eroding my confidence, t

in his promise to marry me "just as soon as y

started small,

n a freezing server room until I missed a career-defining project, and made a

ectural models he' d had custom-made for our future, each

e scholarship he funded for my younger broth

ip me naked and throw me onto a stage while he

oom, Liam, fueled by a possessive rage, pulled a gun and sh

ning to dust, but in that void, a col

hed our future turn to ash, and finally, unequivocally, w