The taste Of Revenge
In the mirror, my reflection looked back at me with the pale, unblinking clarity of a creature that had lived underground for a very long time.
My father used to tell me that the Adrians didn't inherit wealth; they harvested it from the graves of softer families. But he had been wrong about who the predator was. Five years ago, when Xavier’s firm was nothing but frantic sketches on napkins and a manic gleam in his eye, I had been the one to kneel by my father’s leather armchair. I was the one who begged him, wept against his knees, and convinced him to sell our last remaining ancestral property to fund the Adrian dream. I had traded my family's legacy to buy Xavier his first real armor. My f