When Derek finally looked at Vivien, his face did something she had never seen it do in three years of loving him.
It collapsed.
Not into guilt.
Not into remorse.
Into the specific graceless expression of a man who has just understood that the woman he discarded had been quietly, unknowingly sitting at the center of everything he had spent his entire career trying to reach.
And that he had put her there himself by letting her go.
Camille said her name.
“Vivien.”
But Vivien had already looked away.
But looking away was not the end.
It was the beginning of the most unthinkable decision Vivien Hartford would ever make.
And when what happens next reveals what she chose to do with the power she never asked for, it will teach you something about strength and grace that you will carry with you long after this story ends.
The boardroom had not recovered its breath.
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