Perfection is a prison you decorate with pearls.”The light in her bedroom window was always the first to go out.Dominique Devereux made sure of it.From the outside, her world was pristine: a penthouse apartment that overlooked the Manhattan skyline, an exclusive all-girls academy where she reigned with effortless, untouchable grace, and a life of polished smiles, curated events, and soft-gloved restraint. Her mother had always told her, “Real ladies don’t get angry, they host galas.”Tonight, Dominique smiled her way through a charity dinner for the school’s new library fund, wearing Dior, pearls, and heels that made her ankles ache. She nodded when expected, gave a demure wave to her headmaster, and laughed when a senator’s son whispered something boring about Bitcoin into her ear.Boys like him never really saw her. They saw the idea of her—Dominique the debutante, Dominique the legacy girl, Dominique the good girl with a spine as straight as her posture.But beneath the silk an
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