“Here’s $100—Can you be my mom today?” a billionaire boss’s son asked—until a shy woman replied, “Keep it. Billionaires pay in secrets.”

“Then honor her by finishing what she started,” I said. “Not with revenge. With proof. With witnesses. With daylight. Men like Silas survive because everyone around them believes darkness is safer. Prove them wrong.”

Julian looked at me for a long time.

Then he reached out and touched the side of my face — not with possession, not with command,continue reading …