NIRELLE

I have Mara help me get ready; I wanted people to talk. I wanted to hear the media call me Mrs. Vexley and say that I was Mr. Lucien Vexley's wife. I still could not wrap my mind around why that was my goal, but Mara got the goal. I was looking like a superstar, the kind that you'd see in magazines and think that they were created for that moment.

"You look very beautiful, Mrs. Vexley. I am sure Mr. Vexley would be pleased to see you like this," she says, and I want her words to be ...