My fingernails dug crescents into my palms as his voice cut through the room. “Street garbage in a borrowed dress,” he announced to his country club friends. Twenty-three pairs of eyes watched as I carefully folded the napkin beside my untouched plate. The smirk on William’s face was worth memorizing – that self-satisfied expression of a man who thought he’d won. Some garbage burns empires down
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