Chapter 6 - The Beggar in a Suit
By the end of the week,
Spencer was living in a motel.
Evelyn was staying with a distant cousin who hated her.
The jewelry was the first thing to go.
She tried to sell the gold bracelets.
They were gold-plated.
I had known that when she bought them with my money.
I just hadn't said anything.
Penelope had vanished.
As soon as she realized the money was gone,
she found a new target.
She wasn't pregnant,
of course.
It was just a lie to seal the deal.
Spencer was alone.
He spent his days sitting in the park.
He watched the people walking by.
He looked for me.
He thought if he could just talk to me,
I would soften.
He didn't realize that I had no softness left.
I was made of steel and glass now.
I was the Chairwoman.
I was the woman who had returned from a business trip and changed her world.
I was the one who won.
But winning felt different than I expected.
It didn't feel like joy.
It felt like relief.
The weight of his expectations was gone.
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The burden of his mother's cruelty was lifted.
I was free.
