She walked into the café like she wasn’t aware of the way the world bent around her—long blonde hair falling over her shoulders, curves that made conversations freeze, and a confidence that didn’t come from her body but from surviving years of whispers and stares. For so long, people had judged her before hearing a single word she said. Yesterday, that changed. When a man loudly mocked her for her “fake blessings,” she turned to him, smiled calmly, and revealed exactly who she was: the new owner of the entire building. The silence afterward was louder than anything he said.
