An Empire of Ash, A Heart of Steel

To save his date from a spilled drink, he ripped my mother's priceless shawl from my shoulders and used it as a rag.

In front of a thousand people, Kurt Salazar showed me my place.

But the ultimate humiliation was yet to come.

He had me design my own wedding gown-only to use it for his public proposal to another woman.

The shock nearly killed me, landing me in the hospital with a literally broken heart.

He thought I was just another mess to be cleaned up.

He didn't know that from the shards of my heart, a new designer would be born.