Where Freedom Begins

Soon after I came back to the country, someone slapped me right across the face in broad daylight, yelling that I was a mistress.

A crowd of reporters closed in, pelting me with questions about whether Chandler Armstrong, CEO of Armstrong Industries, was keeping me as his mistress.

I was stunned speechless for a moment, but then I pulled out my wedding photo with Chandler from seven years ago and held it up.

"What are you talking about? I'm his wife!"

The crowd went silent, and the woman who'd slapped me turned white as a sheet.