Chapter 43

ALEJANDRO ORTEGA

She remembered everything.

I’d heard her say it as I walked away from the room. I refused to believe another opportunity had slipped right through my fingers, but according to Intel from Techya, the way she worked now was different. The business tycoon, who many people feared, was back. When it came to Zesa, there was hardly any competition because she put herself and Techya in a position where not just anybody could climb up to. She was the kind of woman I needed. A woman who knew how to get what she wanted by pulling the right strings, unlike the immature woman I was expected to spend the rest of my life with. Zesa knew how to manage her finances, but all Sophia knew was about spending. Her family wasn’t even that well off. A pity.

“Are you even listening to me?”

I lifted my eyes from the book in my hand. The Mark of Exile. It was the sequel to The Corpse in the Fog—a crime story about a man killing the lover of the woman he desperately wanted. You co