Are you okay, Sloane?
I stopped.
It was the question he hadn’t asked me on the day of my divorce.
Then I wouldn’t have known what to answer.
But now, after years of work, of losses, of sleepless nights and new beginnings, the answer was simple.
- Yes, Dad. Now I’m fine.
And for the first time in a very long time, I really was.
Julian thought that, by leaving me, he had taken everything from me. He thought he could walk away with Chloe, still using the money, the names and privileges I had built.
But he didn’t understand one thing.
I wasn’t the woman who needed him to be successful.
He was the man who needed me to look like a successful man.
And the day my dad forced me to change those PIN codes, I didn’t just protect my accounts.
I started to regain my freedom.
Because sometimes, after someone breaks your heart, the most important thing is not to prove to him how much he has lost.
