The Ex-Wife Seeks Revenge
The cold, hard certainty I’d felt just days ago, the absolute conviction in my path of revenge, had evaporated, leaving behind a bitter, acrid taste of failure.
I had wanted to destroy Charles Campbell. I had wanted to make Agatha suffer. But in my blind rage, in my obsessive need for vengeance, I had only managed to hurt myself. And worse, I had pushed the two people I despised most in the world closer together.
The serpent had struck, yes. But it had bitten its own tail. And the venom was a slow, agonizing poison of my own making.
"There are always other moves, Nathan," Manuel said quietly from behind me. "The game is never truly over until the king falls."
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