The Billionaire Replaced Me With My Assistant
And beside it, a digitized newspaper clipping: "Morgan Heiress Dies in Tragic Accident. 4-Year-Old Daughter Miraculously Survives."
It was then that I turned to Richard. All the stage lights came on again, capturing us both, him in panic, me, serene and cold as marble.
He staggered. His eyes, wide with horror, scanned my face, the face of Adeline Grant, whom he had thought was a harmless organizer. But now, without the platinum hairstyle, without the soft makeup, with my eyes staring at him with a decade's worth of hatred, something snapped in his memory.
It wasn't full recognition. It was a nightmare taking shape.
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