Never Forgiven
I paused, then turned and asked my assistant for a lighter, and lit one corner of the paper.
The flame consumed the words. The ashes scattered in the wind, like our past, now reduced to dust.
I didn't forgive him.
Never.
But I won.
I looked down at the city that had once tried to consume me. Now, it lay at my feet.
I was the queen here, and that man was merely a stain on my crown, easily wiped away.
Meanwhile, in the maximum-security wing of Rikers Island.
The solitary cell had no windows. Only suffocating silence filled it.