The Royal Mon rch Hotel was glowing that night—the kind of place where power isn’t just present, it’s displayed. Crystal chandeliers scattered light across polished marble, and every conversation carried that careful balance of ambition and pretense.
At the center of it all stood Adrian.
Confident. Celebrated. Untouchable—at least in his mind.
He wore success like it belonged to him.
It didn’t.
But no one in that room knew that yet.
Hours earlier, I had been standing in our bedroom, staring at what remained of my only decent dress.
Burned.
Not torn. Not hidden.
Burned.
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