My name is Cassandra Rhys. I’m 30 years old, a Colonel in the United States Army, and tomorrow morning, I’ll sit across from my father and brother during a crucial defense contract review. What they don’t know is that I’m the Pentagon liaison with final sign-off authority for the entire project.
It’s been five years since I walked out of this house and didn’t look back.
I was tired of being the family’s letdown—the daughter who “threw away” her future by joining the military instead of heading to business school. My father once scoffed that the army was for people with no true ambitions. That was the last honest conversation we ever had.
Tonight, I’m back for dinner. My mother will beam over Ethan’s promotion, my dad will nod approvingly, and someone will ask me if I’m “still deployed somewhere.” I won’t argue. I won’t correct them. Because tomorrow, when their CEO refers to me as “Colonel Rhys” in a room full of executives, that moment of realization will say more than I ever could. Let them have tonight. Tomorrow will rewrite everything.
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