{"id":30666,"date":"2025-10-30T15:57:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=30666"},"modified":"2025-10-30T15:57:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:57:50","slug":"30666","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=30666","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"3288\" data-end=\"3447\">Margaret watched, pale and trembling.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3288\" data-end=\"3447\">\u201cYou think this makes you better than me?\u201d she muttered.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3288\" data-end=\"3447\">I smiled softly. \u201cNo, Margaret. It means Anna matters more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3449\" data-end=\"3634\">For the rest of the night, she stayed silent. Guests began approaching me, curious, respectful, asking about my company. But I didn\u2019t boast. I only wanted Anna to have her happy ending.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3636\" data-end=\"3758\">Later, as I slipped out, a text appeared from my senior manager:\u00a0<em data-start=\"3703\" data-end=\"3756\">You could\u2019ve destroyed her tonight. Why didn\u2019t you?<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3760\" data-end=\"3820\">I replied:\u00a0<em data-start=\"3771\" data-end=\"3820\">Because vengeance satisfies \u2014 but love redeems.<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3822\" data-end=\"4071\">Margaret would go home knowing exactly how close she came to disaster. That was enough.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3822\" data-end=\"4071\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=30667\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-26790 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/comntinue-reading.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"905\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/comntinue-reading.jpeg 905w, https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/comntinue-reading-300x75.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/comntinue-reading-768x191.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 905px) 100vw, 905px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Margaret watched, pale and trembling. \u201cYou think this makes you better than me?\u201d she muttered. I smiled softly. \u201cNo, Margaret. It means Anna matters more.\u201d For the rest of the night, she stayed silent. Guests began approaching me, curious, respectful, asking about my company. But I didn\u2019t boast. I only wanted Anna to have her&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=30666\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30666"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30666"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30693,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30666\/revisions\/30693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}