Liana’s POV

They say success feels like sunlight, bright, warm, radiant. But no one tells you how blinding it can be when you’ve spent years in the dark.

This morning, the city outside my office window shimmered in gold. Every reflection on glass towers, on the river below seemed to echo the same word the board kept using Expansion, Z-Core’s new vision, My vision.

If I tilted my head just right, I could see the mirrored letters of our logo across the next building, Z-CORE INDUSTRIES, ...