The Version Of Us
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Vera Cortez has spent her entire life fighting for a place in a world that was never built for her. The eldest daughter of immigrants, she clawed her way into Blackwell & Hawthorne LLP, determined to prove that survival and success were the same thing. In a firm where only the sharpest survived, she was relentless, methodical, impossible to shake.
Dorian Aldridge never had to fight for his place-his name was enough. Son of legal royalty, he walked into the courtroom with the kind of effortless confidence that only came from knowing the world would always bend in his favor. He was brilliant, reckless, and infuriatingly good at what he did.
They were never friends. They were rivals-the kind that thrived on one-upping each other, that pushed until something cracked. The kind that blurred the lines between competition and something neither of them was willing to name.
Until it all fell apart.
Now, forced onto the same high-profile case, Vera and Dorian are back in the same room, back to trading sharp words and stolen glances, back to pretending the past never happened.
But some things refuse to stay buried. Some rivalries were never just about winning, and some stories aren't finished just because the last chapter was written.
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