Bernard POVI stood outside Elena's penthouse apartment building with two garbage bags containing everything I owned in the world. My clothes, a few personal items, and the business cards of people who used to respect me before my life fell apart. That was it. That was all that remained of Bernard Fredrick's empire."You're pathetic," Elena had said an hour ago, not even looking up from her laptop as she spoke. "I gave you a chance to be useful, and instead you turned into a whining, useless boy who can't even handle simple business tasks."She was right, of course. For the past three months, I had been living in her apartment like a kept pet, doing whatever she demanded in exchange for a roof over my head and enough money to survive. I had thought I was playing her, using her wealth to get back on my feet so I could eventually reclaim my life.Instead, she had been playing me from the very beginning."Your services are no longer needed," she had continued, finally closing her laptop
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