Three Days Short of Forever
"And that's for trampling on six years of my love beneath your heel."
I'd just raised my hand for a third strike when Samuel caught my wrist. "Don't dirty your hand."
Without looking back, he ordered, "Throw him out."
Two bodyguards moved in, seized Kyle, and dragged him away.
Samuel wrapped an arm around my shoulders, his touch warm and steady.
I glanced back one last time at the figure huddled in the rain. "You're rotten to the core, Kyle."
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Three months later, under the flashes of reporters' cameras, the "Caged Bird" series left the audience stunned. The broken wings had been remade into a gilded cloak. At the curtain call, countless white doves burst into the air behind me.