He Chose Her Over Me So I Chose Myself Chapter 40
After the foundation scandal, the Mercer family all but disappeared from the media.
The board abandoned family-image-centered publicity entirely, and every charitable project was shifted to independent review teams.
My adoptive parents remained donors, but they could no longer stand in front of cameras and use an adopted child to prove their goodness.
Camille’s research continued through the university alone.
She kept her academic award, but she lost the stage that had once delivered my wedding guests, family donors, and foundation resources to her in a single stroke.
No one ever asked me to celebrate for her again.
Grant sold the Beacon Hill house.
On the day he signed the papers, the agent asked why he had never lived on the main floor.
He looked at the sunlit study outside the window and said nothing for a very long time.
That had once been the marital home he promised June.
Later, he had taken the key from her hand and said Camille needed it more.
He had thought the house would always be there, and that June would always be there, too.
But when the buyer took the keys, he finally understood that once certain doors closed, expensive property and belated regret were equally worthless.Â