My palms trembled as I entered the Sterling mansion's pristine, frigid hallway. Though the polished floors shone under the towering chandeliers, the burden of what I was about to do, what I was going to expose, felt like a stone in my chest. The air was thick with years of buried secrets and falsehoods waiting to be revealed. Though I didn't expect to see her here, there she was. Seated in her normal place beside the great window, Maxwell's mother, Eleanor Sterling, Drawn curtains created a dark shadow around her. The one who had always looked down on me, the one who had never once concealed her dislike for someone like me, someone who didn't belong in their world. Sophia, you've been avoiding me, she remarked with a seductive voice and a predatory grin at the corners of her mouth. "How... to be expected." I did not answer right away. I stepped closer and my eyes narrowed as I evaluated her. She was all the woman I remembered, strong, shrewd, and tenacious. But she was suddenly cha
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