Chapter 12 - Vanessa’s Mask Completely Shatters Under Pressure Now
As officers led Vanessa down the aisle toward the exit, she stopped directly in front of Nathaniel.
Her mascara was streaked across her pale cheeks, her expensive silk gown dragging in spilled champagne on the marble floor.
“You’ll regret this, Nathaniel... nobody ever walks away from the Sterling family unscathed,” she hissed through clenched teeth.
“I already walked away, Vanessa, and for the first time in my life, I can actually breathe,” Nathaniel replied softly.
She was pulled through the heavy doors, the echoes of her weeping fading down the hallway of the luxury hotel.
The ballroom felt suddenly quiet, stripped of its artificial grandeur, glittering lights, and hollow pretenses.
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Nathaniel stepped down from the stage, walking past the silent crowd of stunned investors without offering a single word of explanation.
He walked out into the cool Manhattan night air, leaving the wreckage of his former life behind him in the dust.
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