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se became a fortress of their shared guilt and my silent condemnation. The media, however, was not so easily placated

as the man who had sacrificed his wife. Fallon was no longer the damsel in distress; she w

e closed doors of their room, the sound of something

g, but strained. "I'll fi

to meet my eyes. "The board is calling for my resignation," he sai

t. A press conference. Tell them it was all a misunderstanding. That you w

f the world and absolve them of their sins, to paint

, cold emptiness. I saw the gears turning in his head, the selfish calculatio

You can't ask her to do this. It's my fault. I'll go public, I'll tell them everything..." Her words we

led her into a protective embrace. "I won't let y

room. I was not a person to him, but a

been simmering inside me began to crystallize, s

d, my voice surp

unned by my easy comp

d. "But on o

said, relief fl

entrance to the Sharpe Tower. I want the world to be watching."

o salvage his reputation that he didn't see the trap I

rters and camera crews from every major network jostled for position. Jace a

ounced to the sea of microphones. "She will confirm that she is safe and well, and that the eve

flicker of annoyance cro

ssed for a press conference, but in simple jeans and a swea

to an impenetrable darkness, pulled up

me, turned the corner, I stepped into t

nce, but towards the airport, towards a new life. I was leaving Jace to fac