After Cory left, Jane entered her bathroom and took a soak in the bathtub. She looked at the ceiling in a daze.

She had thought about her future countless times, but she had never pictured that she would be in her current situation.

When she had been with Claude, she had been a precious heiress. She had been able to get anything she wanted. She had never imagined that she would end up relying on others one day, her wings clipped.

Only a year had passed, but she felt like it had been decades.