Nathaniel’s POVI slammed the car door with a force that sent a jagged spike of pain through my left shoulder, where Jessica’s maid’s knife had bit deep into my flesh but I didn't care. I ignored the warmth of fresh blood seeping into my bandages and I ran toward the main entrance of the Hargrave Group headquarters. Getting there, I realized that I was too late. The lobby was a graveyard of camera tripods, tangled cables, and dispersing reporters who whispered my name up and down, looking all excited about the news they just got.The giant monitors in the hall still showed a replay of the broadcast. My mother, or should I say fake mother… Jessica, wore that picture-perfect "Matriarch" mask…she had always been that way…all smiles and calculated grace…while Miranda stood behind her, holding Caleb as if he were a trophy of my supposed surrender to her. The "show" was over. In the time it had taken me to force a doctor to treat Ava and bandage my own wounds, Jessica had publicly execute
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