return.
“No.”
Marcus smiled.
“That quick?”
I shook my head.
“Walking away from me was probably the quickest favor Daniel ever did.”
The city lights flickered on below us.
For years, Daniel believed I existed somewhere behind his success.
He believed his work mattered more.
His career was more important.
His ambitions were the center of our marriage.
He thought everyone else existed to support the life he wanted.
In the end, I didn’t need to ruin him.
I didn’t need revenge.
I didn’t need to manipulate anything.
I simply stopped standing between Daniel and the consequences of his own decisions.
And after eleven years of building my life around someone else’s ambitions, I finally went home to a future that belonged completely to me.
