His Regret, My Rise
He had no idea that the woman warming his bed was worth more than his entire pack.
He had no idea that the "pathetic" wife he'd discarded could buy and sell him a hundred times over.
He had no idea that "Phantom"—the genius everyone wanted to recruit, the legend no one could find—was currently sitting in a $49 motel room with tear tracks on her face and vengeance in her heart.
Liora stirred, her grief transmuting into something sharper. Something hungrier.
Show them, she whispered. Show them all.
I closed the laptop and lay back on the lumpy motel bed, staring at the water-stained ceiling. Tomorrow, I would become someone new. Tomorrow, I would start the process of burning my old life to ash