DATING MY DAUGHTER'S EX
The heavy front door slammed, a sound of absolute termination.
The silence she left behind was deafening. I leaned against the cold banister, my legs unsteady. I had weathered divorce, bankruptcy scares, every hardship a business could throw at me. But this… this enemy was my own daughter. The person I had built this life for. I never knew a single, stupid, lonely night would make us enemies.
The grief threatened to swallow me whole, to pull me down onto the marble floor and let the world burn. But a more insistent, metallic alarm was ringing in my skull. Giselle. The press conference. Thirty minutes.