LEOThe motel room smells like mildew and cheap whiskey.I've been here for three weeks or probably four. Time has lost its shape since everything collapsed, rather, since Isabel destroyed everything.I stare at the ceiling in the dark, the television muted on a news channel, and think about how different my life was eighteen months ago.The penthouse, the company, the respect, and the obedient wife who smiled at the right events, never asked inconvenient questions and made me look exactly like the man I wanted to be seen as. All of it is gone.The embezzlement charges came first, and yes, I took money that wasn't technically mine, but I built that company. I deserved compensation the board wasn't willing to give.Then the trial, the conviction, and the suspended sentence that felt like a leash rather than mercy, then the complete social annihilation.My friends who stopped calling, business contacts who stopped returning emails. The penthouse was sold to cover legal fees, and the com
최신 업데이트 : 2026-07-24 더 보기