ASHES OF HER MERCY
Chloe looked around the room in pure, unadulterated horror.
The very women who had coddled her, supported her charity galas, and pitied her supposed illness were now turning their backs, their faces frozen in absolute social execution. Cameras flashed from the press corner, capturing not a triumphant confrontation, but a hysterical, unhinged woman crumbling before the icy perfection of the new CEO of Sterling Global.
Chloe’s hands began to shake violently. She reached out, trying to grab the lapel of my gown to tear it, to cause some kind of physical stain on my perfection.