A Dream Realized

Valerie’s POV

A year later.

Time had moved like water, steady, unstoppable, reshaping everything in its path until the life I lived now barely resembled the one I thought I had been doomed to. I stood there, in front of glass walls that reflected the sky, watching as the crowd pressed closer, their voices a soft hum that rose and fell in waves. The air buzzed with excitement, with pride, with expe