RECLAIMING MY LIFE FROM THE UNTOUCHABLE CEO
"Not to find you exactly, though I think that started it. He's been digging into the accident. The real accident, Hazel. Michael let it slip at a dinner party that Penelope paid a driver to clip Julian's car five years ago, to scare him into staying in the country. Nobody was supposed to actually get hurt."
I sat very still, the phone growing warm against my palm, and felt something in my chest that I couldn't immediately name, not relief, not vindication, something colder and stranger, closer to grief for the version of myself who had spent five years believing she'd sacrificed everything to fate, when in truth she had sacrificed it to a woman's jealousy and a man's blindness to see it. I t