She Had Built an Audience
The ultimatum, delivered with such brutal simplicity, threw Adrienne into a storm of emotions. The thought of discarding something she had built from the ground up — her influencer profile, her followers, the brand associations, and the content she had painstakingly curated — felt akin to severing a part of herself. Yet, the weight of her commitment to the police force, its ethos, and her childhood dreams, held its own undeniable gravity.