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My ribs were on fire, rain was pounding the wrecked windshield, and my six-week-old baby was screaming in the back seat when I called my mother from the ER. / Chapter 10 / 10

Chapter 10 - The Horizon of Gold

One year after the night of the car crash.

The grand pavilion of the Arthur & Eli Vance Foundation was filled with light, music, and hundreds of families. Tonight was the inaugural gala celebrating the first anniversary of the foundation’s medical network—the very same network that had saved Eli and me from the wreckage of a lonely hospital room a year ago.

I stood in the dressing room, adjusting the strap of a stunning, deep emerald silk dress. I looked at myself in the mirror. The faint scar above my left eyebrow was still there, but it no longer looked like damage. It looked like a crown.

David walked in from behind, wrapping his arms around my waist, his lips brushing against the side of my neck. "The board is waiting for your speech, Chairwoman Vance. And your son just tried to eat a piece of the ceremonial ice sculpture."

I laughed, turning around in his arms, resting my hands against his chest. "Let him. He owns the place."

We walked out into the main ballroom together, hand in hand. The crowd erupted into thunderous, genuine applause—not the forced, transactional applause of the high-society circles my mother had chased, but the deep, resonant gratitude of people whose lives had been altered by our sanctuary.

As I stepped up to the podium, looking out at the sea of smiling faces, with my grandfather cheering from the front row and David holding a laughing, healthy one-year-old Eli in his arms, I felt the final traces of the old weight dissolve into the golden light.

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