The Daughter He Disowned
"Scarlett Monroe, you are no longer my daughter." Those were the last words my father said to me before the handcuffs closed around my wrists. My fiancé didn't....
"Scarlett Monroe, you are no longer my daughter." Those were the last words my father said to me before the handcuffs closed around my wrists. My fiancé didn't defend me. He just stepped back. The media didn't wait for proof, they decided who I was in one afternoon. And my stepmother cried quietly, perfectly timed tears. The same woman who made sure the evidence pointed straight at me. I lost everything that day. My name, my reputation and the life I thought I was building. Prison doesn't just take your freedom, It takes your reflection. After a while, you stop recognizing the person looking back at you in the mirror. Three years changes a person. Three years teaches you who your real enemies are, and what they never saw coming. Now I sit at the head of a boardroom table they built. They don't recognize me. Why would they? The girl they disowned doesn't exist anymore. My father shakes my hand the way he would greet any business partner. Politely, professionally, distantly, He doesn’t see his daughter, he sees only the new CEO who just bought controlling shares of Hayes Industries.. My ex-fiancé, Mason Cole, watches me carefully. Curious. Drawn in. He doesn't know I still have the ring he gave me, not because I miss him but because I remember everything. And my stepmother, Victoria Lane, smiles at me politely. She has no idea the woman dismantling her world piece by piece… …is the one she tried to erase. They thought they ended my story. They only gave me a new one. And very soon… They'll remember my name.