o marry Daniel Miller, h

n, ran their car off the side of the highway and into a ravine. It was a clean job, th

told her that my brother, Mark, had been caught selling company secrets from Miller Tech. Sarah coll

nd my fiancé, stood by and watched. Later, the news showed Mark' s face, bruised and swollen, a public spectacle of disgrace. Th

noon. The wedding dress hanging

e burden of a merger. He wanted to absorb their legacy and erase their names. He had court

. I crawled. I crawled through the rain and mud to the gates of a secluded mansion on the edge of the city. My knee was screaming in pain, bone

your pu

Ethan Hayes,"

once rejected. He had disappeared from public life years ago, but I knew he was

blood on the pristine stone. I knelt before his front door. For what felt like h

an I remembered, his face harder, colder. The warmth he

his voice flat. "Look w

rom my throat. "You have to help me. Da

told him everything. When I was done

urity skills can uncover anything. I can ruin D

over me, so powerful it

eyes locking onto mine,

g," I wh

rry

he was still bitter, that this was his way of punishing me, of claiming the

or revenge, I wo

ll,"

t, in his vast, empty mansion, he showed me just how much he hated me. He was cold and distant, asserting his dominance over and over again until I was

he bedroom flickered on. A smiling ne

his comes on the heels of Miller Tech securing a multi-billion dollar government contract for their new securi

ts' inno

ned national security. For his great service in rooting out this "traitor," Daniel was being rewarded beyond his wildest

, who was standing by the wind

rembling. "You knew this would happ

e me, his expres

touching his lips. "Why would I help

hat are you talking about? My family

don't you? She can't have children. Her dreams of a family are gone, all because of a procedure that was botched. A procedure t

burning with a hatred so inten

so I could have you right where I want you. You are going to pay for what your family did to Anna. I w

ior, shattered into a million pieces. He wasn't my ally. He was just another enemy, one who wore the f