The Billionaire Waitress
Late January 2029 gripped Montclair, New Jersey, in a brittle frost, the air sharp as a blade. I, Elise—Xiamond—lurked in a shadowed alley near Kayla Reed’s apartment, my platinum hair matted under a black hoodie, my chipped nails clutching a burner phone. Her blue sedan sat parked on a quiet street, its brake lines freshly cut by Derek, my ally from Newark, his cruelty a mirror to my own. Kayla, her jet-black hair loose, her emerald dress from the Nexus gala (December 2028) still haunting me, carried her six-month pregnancy—my ultrasound leak (November 2028) exposed—like a trophy. She’d stolen Justin Drake, my Justin, whose hazel eyes once burned for me in 2023. Her poise at the Nexus follo
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