The CEO’s Lies, My Second Life
“Miss Ross, this patent has made you worth over twenty million overnight, a complete leap in status. What would you like to say?”
I took the microphone.
Facing a sea of flashing cameras, I smiled—calm, brilliant, and untouchable.
“I want to thank the past eight years of hardship. They woke me up. They taught me I should never waste a mind like mine being someone else’s stepping stone. From now on, I decide my own fate.”
Thunderous applause filled the hall.
On the screen, I shone—radiant, dazzling, impossible to look away from.
And below that same screen, in the dark, snow-covered alley, Landon lay like something on the brink of death, staring at that radiant figure until his bloodshot eyes s
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