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“This is all your fault! If you had just told me, none of this would have happened! It’s all because of you, you
bitch!”
This time, Gita didn’t have to step in. A security guard who had been waiting nearby stepped forward and brought his baton down hard across her back.
“Stay down!”
Amber shrieked and collapsed, sobbing hysterically on the floor. “Damian Thorne! Mia Kim! I hate you! I hope you both rot in hell!”
Alex had heard enough. She strode forward and slapped Amber across the face with all her might. “How dare you speak to Mia like that, you trashy little tramp! I’ve been waiting to do this!”
The crack of the slap echoed in the room.
“And when you curse Damian’s name,” Alex snarled, “you keep Mia’s out of your filthy mouth! Understand?!”
Amber screamed again, but her hatred was still laser–focused on me. “Mia Kim, without your rich best friend, you’d be nothing! A pathetic, low–life nobody! What can you do besides leech off of her?!”
I widened my eyes and covered my mouth in mock surprise. This would probably be the last time I ever saw her. I decided to give her the truth.
“You really never figured it out, did you?” I said, my voice sweet as poison. “The company where we worked? It’s my family’s.”
“I was just ‘experiencing life‘ at one of our branches.”
“Who ever told you I was a nobody? I’m the real heiress, sweetie.” I made sure to emphasize the word “real,” just as she used to when she’d brag about becoming a “real” trophy wife.
Her face went ashen.
She had always believed my cars and bags were just handouts from my wealthy friend, a belief that had fueled her own desperate quest for a rich husband. But my words shattered that reality.
The person she had seen as her rival, her competitor, had been living in a completely different world all alo-
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- ng. Her entire struggle, her scheming, her rise and fall–it was all just a joke.
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This time, Amber didn’t get up. She lay on the floor, her eyes vacant, staring up at the glittering lights on the
ceiling, utterly broken.
I left with Alex and Gita.
Gita was silent for the whole ride. Just as we were pulling up to the office, she spoke, her voice quiet.
“Miss Kim… is there really such a thing as equality in this world?”
The very idea seemed like a farce.
I glanced at her. “I don’t know,” I said. “But my father started with nothing.”
Gita nodded slowly.
You get the life you’re capable of living. When your ambition outstrips your wisdom, you inevitably lose cont- rol.
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