Shattered Masks
Think you'll have the dignity to walk this earth?
Ruby crumpled to the floor, her complexion ghostly pale.
She then realized she had been dancing on a stage set straight to hell since her affair began. I had been holding the ultimate weapon to shatter her life all along. The tenderness she had seen? Nothing but a lure.
Her little performance, her schemes–they were nothing against the hard evidence and my steely resolve.
Her eyes met mine, a journey from pleading to despair, then spiraling down into a deep, icy fear, and finally twisting into a look of pure venom.