Chapter 29 - the last visit to the ballroom
Jessi returned to the original ballroom once.
The building was being renovated.
She stood in the empty room.
She could almost hear the music.
Almost see the cake.
Almost feel Luca's hand at the back of her neck.
But the memory had changed.
She wasn't the frightened bride anymore.
She was simply a woman remembering something terrible that had happened to her.
Her husband stood near the door.
“You okay?”
“Yes.”
She walked toward the old cake table.
There was nothing there.
No flowers.
No guests.
No champagne.
She smiled.
“I used to think this room took something from me.”
“What do you think now?”
“That it gave me the truth.”
He nodded.
She touched the pearl she had kept from that night.
The tiny pearl from her collar.
She had carried it for years.
Now she placed it on the empty table.
Then walked away.
She didn't need it anymore.
Outside, the sun was setting.
Her husband took her hand.
“Ready?”
Jessi smiled.
“Yes.”
She didn't look back.
Because the woman who had been smashed into that cake had needed evidence to prove she was being controlled.
The woman leaving the building didn't need evidence anymore.
She knew who she was.
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And no one could take that from her.
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