I thought I could finally break away from Eliana. Turns out luck wasn't mine to keep. Freedom, my foot… In the end, I got dragged right back there. Dragged by force, kicked out of my boarding house, shunned by friends I’d just met. Damn it! I have nowhere to go home. Ahhh… I want to scream. Furious. Annoyed. Disappointed. I don't even know what I did wrong, but I got fired—they called it "honorable," but it felt like being treated like trash. Discarded the moment I wasn't useful anymore. "5 million will be transferred to your account, Miss," said the assistant, whose name I didn't even know yet. His voice was flat, professional, completely indifferent to me. "That amount isn't much for the Sergios. But for you… it’s enough to start a business, right?" Amon had just left and he wouldn’t be my assistant anymore. To them, I was just a line item passing through their ledger. That money meant nothing compared to Johan's wealth. My business could be crushed. My employees could
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