THE BILLIONAIRE’S DEBT
UREK EMfound 100 million in my rented apartmentex begging for my return: i shine as a billionaire writerbought by the billionairedumped, then claimed by a billionaire
Not the board, not the regulators, and especially not the woman.
Unknown: And the girl? Elara? She’s only twelve, Silas.
Silas: She’s a Vance. If she has half her mother’s mind, she’ll find the leak. Bury the mother with the plane. The girl stays in the gutter where she belongs. If she ever resurfaces, we activate the second phase.
I stared at the screen, the words blurring as the room seemed to tilt on its axis. My mother. She wasn't just an accountant. She was the "woman" Silas had murdered. She was the witness he had buried ten thousand feet under the ocean.