onLeave a Comment on With my fingertips resting against the icy floor-to-ceiling glass of my sixty-fifth-floor penthouse office, I watched violet twilight engulf the streets below. The Opeline rose beneath my handcrafted Italian loafers, its dark tower descending toward the harbor waters. The immense black tower was an architectural landmark. Every inch of its imported limestone exterior, every hand-cut crystal suspended in the atrium, and every thread of eight-hundred-count Egyptian cotton in its four hundred luxury suites was indisputably mine. StudyChemistry Yet a sleek smartphone vibrated on the broad surface of my black marble desk. The glowing message reminded me that, to my own relatives, I remained the unwanted stray they had thrown into the winter cold ten years earlier. 
any scream could ever be.
“Ten years ago,” I said, my voice echoing off the panoramic glass, clear and resonant, “you told me that I wasn’t fit to walk on your carpets. You told me that my only value in this world was to be sold off to the highest bidder to pay for Harper’s vanity.”
I tossed the silk pocket square into the center of the walnut table, over Preston’s forged papers.
“You were half right, Eleanor. I was meant to work in service. But I didn’t become
