The Gilded Awakening

It would be so easy to spin a lie and say my story had a perfect, beautiful Cinderella ending, but the reality of life is so much harsher and darker. I stood barefoot on the freezing marble floor, staring at my reflection in the opulent, gold-leafed mirror of his massive bathroom the morning after our first entire night together. The lingering fog of exhaustion battled with a sharp, electric energ