Theirs To Possess And Ruin
Then a third time just to make sure I wasn’t missing something obvious, something small that could turn this around, but every angle led to the same place.
Marcus had found a legal thread buried deep enough that no one bothered to question it until now, and he was using it perfectly, not to rush or attack blindly, but to corner.
And I hated that because it meant he had learned.
It meant he wasn’t the same reckless man I had once outplayed.
“I should’ve killed you when I had the chance,” I muttered under my breath, dragging a hand down my face as I stopped by the window again.
The moon hung high and bright, casting a pale glow over the compound, everything looking calm, almost peaceful, like