More Than Worthless

ere to be found. When he finally returned, he looked at me with disdain, sneering that I was "all ambition and no

" My company, the "goldmine" he coveted, was just a means to an end. The last illusion shattered, an

ate me by outbidding me on a car, convinced I was still the penniless woman he had discarded. He dragged me into the dirt, mocked me, and had me beaten f

e to dehumanize a woman they knew nothing about, based solely on his word? I had built an emp

, nor the influential man who stood silently by my side. As I lay there,