The Anatomy of Remorse was a useless, post-mortem study of a collapsed heart. In the field of pathology, examining a dead organ does nothing to restore its function; it merely documents the exact moment of failure, mapping the precise areas where the tissue rotted from neglect and pride. For three years, Justin had hidden behind the heavy iron armor of his Supreme Alpha title, convinced that his indifference was a shield, that my suffering was merely an inconvenient footnote in his grand ascent. But remorse, when it arrives too late, is not a clean, healing process. It is a slow, agonizing hemorrhage of the mind—-a sudden, violent realization that the crown you sacrificed your soul to wear is made of nothing but poison, and that the woman you discarded was the only gravity keeping your world from tearing itself apart. The safehouse control room was silent, the high-resolution feeds glowing with the cold, steady light of a completed operation. Outside, the frozen forest stood absol
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