Fortune Readers Novels & Stories

"Baby, I’m sorry. I’m sorry! I messed up!" Rachel’s eyes filled with crocodile tears as she shoved him away. "I’m telling my dad. I’ll make sure you can’t survive in this city. Every major company here belongs to the Carter Group. Let’s see who dares hire you then." Adrian paled, trembling, stammering with panic. He glanced around desperately, and then his eyes landed on me like I was his lifeline.

The Forge account was an investment and stock account that returned a large amount of investment that all the other companies were also investing in. Since any lawyer who heard the name Forge consulting, that name passed in legitimate funding processes, but in reality it was the personal account of the company Aliex, which Hathori using the shares and the low value it caused with its association with Scavengers, managed to buy.

“I was taught to disappear. Taught that quiet was safer than confrontation. But that kind of safety always comes at a cost—and I won’t let my daughter pay it.” They didn’t shout. They didn’t plead. They showed. And that night, the headlines didn’t speculate. They defended. “Volkov Family Targeted: Child Followed by Hired Investigator” “From Heiress to Hunter: Anya Petrova Fights Back” “Security Breach Sparks Citywide Backlash Against Legacy Spies” For the first time… The city chose them. It arrived by hand—no return address, no markings, no courier. Just a plain envelope waiting at the front desk, delivered “with urgency” to the penthouse that afternoon.