She cried even harder, snot and tears streaming down her face. “I know I was wrong! I really know! Please forgive me, I’ll never do it again!”I looked at her pathetic state without a shred of pity.“You know you were wrong?” I let out a soft, sharp laugh. “Do you have any idea what I gave to that company?”“I put in millions of dollars of my own money. I leveraged a decade of my family’s top-tier connections. I worked day and night for that company. And you?”I looked down at Lia kneeling on the steps, my voice growing colder.“You took my contributions for granted. You slandered me. You tried to ruin my reputation online. And now that you’ve lost your job and ruined your credit, you feel wronged?”The reporters listened, captivated, their cameras fixed on us.“You’re not wronged at all,” my voice carried clearly across the steps. “This is the price you pay for mistaking kindness for weakness.”With that, I put my sunglasses back on and walked into the courthouse, my heels clicking wi
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