My husband burned the only beautiful dress I had so I wouldn’t be able to attend his promotion gala. Then he looked at me with contempt and called me “an embarrassment.”

Ava. Security will throw you out before you make it past the entrance.”

Then he turned around, climbed into his car, and drove away.

I remained kneeling in the grass staring at the ashes of the dress I had worked so hard to afford.

I cried so hard I could barely breathe.

The queen awakens

But eventually, my tears stopped.

As the smoke disappeared into the continue reading …