The Ex-Wife’s Mega Comeback
Around Scarlet’s specialized reclining chair stood her quiet mechanical entourage, assistive arms, voice-activated panels, sensory drones waiting like loyal sentinels.
Scarlet herself was still as sculpted stone. The brace lifted her head in perfect alignment, her long braid resting over one shoulder. She couldn’t move anything below her neck, yet her eyes, sharp, intelligent, endlessly alive, commanded the entire room.
“Come closer, Cassie,” Scarlet said. Her voice was silk threaded with steel.
A robotic arm glided forward, tapping a glowing control on the interface table. Screens bloomed to life across the wall.
Cassie approached. Sebastian sat in the corner, arms folded, face calm but mar