Vanessa stormed out of Dante's office, her heart shattered and hot tears streaming down her cheeks. She paid no mind to the mocking glances from her office colleagues.
She hurried through the lobby toward the exit, a suffocating sense of constriction mounting in her chest.
She raced to her car, hands trembling as she frantically searched for her keys. With a screech of tires, she drove blindly through the streets, her vision clouded by betrayal and pain.
Somehow, she ended up outside her cousin Katrina’s building. She parked haphazardly and bounded up the steps two at a time, pounding on the door in desperation.
Katrina opened the door, her eyes widening in alarm at the sight of Vanessa.
"My God, Vane! What happened?" she asked, genuinely concerned.
Vanessa threw herself into her cou
