Ten Years, One Abandonment
The boat tore across the water, white spray cutting through the dark sea.
Anthony sat at the stern, letting the blood drip from his forehead.
His eyes never left the slowly sinking Elysium.
Flames danced wildly against the night sky, silent, like a funeral pyre.
Mabel.
The woman who had walked with him from nothing to the very peak of the family's empire…
He had left her behind.
He had done that with his own hands.
He had left her in hell.
"Don, let me treat your wound," Henry said, offering the medical kit.