Champagne trembled before it spilled. Laughter cracked like thin glass over secrets no one wanted to name. In the corner, the girl they’d trained themselves to ignore finally lifted her head. She had counted every slight, memorized every polished lie, every time her competence was repackaged as someone else’s brilliance. When she spoke, her voice didn’t rise—it cut, clean and surgical. Names, dates, exact words, each one a precise incision through their practiced innocence, every syllable peeling back the party’s glittering skin until the room stood naked, every gaze pinned, every alibi fray… Continues…
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