The Woman They Humiliated Owned Everything

softened. “Then come to the office.”

“No.”

There was a pause.

“What do you want to do?”

I watched Adrian take the stage beside his mother. He was smiling, but his hands were clenched.

I had seen those hands tremble when he spoke about building something real.

I had also seen them do nothing while I was publicly reduced to staff.

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