Chapter 27

She opened her eyes, remembering how much the pain and hatred had annealed her and fine-tuned her. She became like the mythical phoenix rising from the ashes. She learned how to be strong. How to be tough and hardened like hardcore steel.

The world was cold and brutal, and if she was going to survive, she had to learn to be cold too. This ideology had inadvertently seeped into her law career, where she learned how to be hard, inflexible, and a winning bitch.

Yet it would seem as though in the last few months with Michael Davenport, that woman was receding. The girl that had fallen hopelessly in love with Phil had been rekindled, and she was gradually taking up space again, possessing her soul again. Just that this time she was falling hopelessly in love with Michael.

Diana knew she had found the solution to her problem.

She couldn’t afford to lose the woman she had become. She had worked too hard to become that woman, and that woman protected her against hurt