The Gilded Cage: Her Fierce Escape

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the same: "WALL STREET

highlight reel. My face, twisted in pain and

n't eat. I couldn't sleep. I just stared

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ith a disgust that cut deep

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sn't my fau

Juilliard, over us. This is the company you chose to keep. We ca

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f to the door and looke

. I knew him from college, a quiet, intense boy w

the doo

e soft. "I am so sorry f

genuinely

. It's monstrous

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u. I have resources. I can make the video disa

esperate for a lifeli

showered me with gifts, with kindness, with a devotion that felt like a healing balm on my raw wounds. He spoke

ater, he

rk contrast to my quiet courthouse ceremony with Ethan

my veil, when I heard voices from t

od ran

voice was bitter, resen

'd have her one day. Leaking that video was the only way. It destroyed

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her tormentor, a more p

s a shroud. The diamond on my finger was a shackle. I had j