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Boardroom Execution

Author: Amelia Hart
last update Last Updated: 2025-12-17 00:45:21

Day eighteen.

I wake up knowing today is the day I take back what is rightfully and has always been mine.

My bathroom mirror shows a woman carved from vengeance: cheekbones sharp enough to cut, eyes cold as winter steel, mouth painted Vendetta red because today is war and I intend to look like the general.

I dress for the kill.

Blood-red silk dress, custom, poured over every curve the pregnancy has given me. The neckline plunges just enough to remind them I’m still a woman, the slit climbs high enough to remind them I’m untouchable and sexy even while being pregnant. Black heels with the red soles that have become my signature (every step a bloodstain on their conscience). Hair twisted into a low knot so severe it could slice glass. A diamond necklace around my throat like a collar I put on myself.

Alexander is waiting in the foyer when I step out.

Black suit, black tie, white pocket square folded into a blade. His eyes do one slow, deliberate sweep (from the red soles to the red mout
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