The years passed in a blink.Three years on, the world's top design competition opened, and I entered under my own name, Ava, with an entirely new couture collection, and took the international gold in one stroke, reaching the summit of global design.The small designer who'd once hidden behind Dean, edges filed down, had long since broken free of everything love had bound her with, standing now at the top of the world, living as something truly dazzling, beyond anyone's reach.The ceremony was held in a glittering international capital, red carpet underfoot, celebrities everywhere, the spotlights flashing for me through the whole night.Afterward I rode alone through the city's old quarter on my way to the airport. Passing a dim, noisy intersection, gaudy neon, a messy crush of people, traffic everywhere, I caught sight, by chance, of a figure both familiar and strange.It was Lena.She was in a cheap, revealing dress, her makeup patchy and worn, her hair a dry, tangled yellow, hunche
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