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I spent fifteen years designing the buildings that made Adrian famous, standing beside him as he climbed to the top of the industry. But the night I sat in the audience still wearing his engagement ring, he accepted an award for my work, thanked another woman for inspiring him, and announced in front of six hundred people that she was the one he was going to marry. The wedding I had waited eight years for was nothing but a lie meant to keep me working for them. They called me "family" while using my talent to build his reputation as a genius, certain I would never leave. This time, they were wrong.