My Husband Tried To Serve Me Divorce Papers At A High-Profile Gala — He Didn’t Know I Owned His Entire Company
Part 3
Yes, she had undoubtedly painted a massive, glowing target on her own back.
The adrenaline of utter destruction was always a wildly potent and intoxicating drug.
But exactly like all powerful drugs, the inevitable comedown was absolutely brutal and unforgiving.
Sarah sat silently in the cavernous back seat of the heavily armored Maybach.
The vibrant city lights of New York blurred into endless streaks of harsh neon and gray rain against the thick bulletproof glass.
The heated leather seat was incredibly comfortable, contouring perfectly to her exhausted body.
The vehicle’s custom suspension was completely silent, absorbing every single imperfection of the ruined city streets.
The filtered air inside the cabin smelled faintly of expensive lavender and cold steel.
It was a perfect, impenetrable cocoon of unimaginable wealth and security.
But despite the warmth of the car, Sarah was shivering uncontrollably.
She held the ancient red pager tightly in her trembling hand.
Her pale thumb continuously traced the small, cracked screen where the ominous words still glowed.
The coin has been flipped.
They know.
It was a piece of incredibly old, analog technology that felt heavy with history.
The device was completely untraceable, a ghost relic from a chaotic time long before smartphones and global positioning systems existed.
It was a direct lifeline from the terrifying era when her father was being ruthlessly hunted across the dark expanse of Europe.
Dan sat rigidly in the front passenger seat, his eyes constantly scanning the rain-slicked side mirrors.
Sarah finally broke the heavy silence, her voice trembling just enough to betray the icy facade she had worn all evening.
She asked him if he had seen the transmission come through the secure network.
Dan didn’t even turn his head, keeping his intense focus locked entirely on the trailing headlights of Fifth Avenue traffic.
He confirmed that he had seen it, his tone conveying a grim understanding of the imminent danger.
Sarah stared blankly at her own pale reflection in the wet window.
The massive sapphire necklace she had used to humiliate Heather now lay incredibly heavy around her delicate neck.
It felt less like a royal crown jewel and far more like a cold, glittering noose of diamonds tightening around her throat.
She told Dan with absolute certainty that they could not return to the townhouse.
The townhouse was nothing more than a beautiful, fragile glass box.
If the syndicate truly knew she was active again, a glass box would quickly become a very expensive coffin.
Dan nodded slowly, his hands gripping the dashboard as he ordered the driver to reroute immediately.
He instructed the driver to head straight for the secure safe house hidden deep within the meatpacking district.
He formally initiated Protocol Seven, demanding absolutely no electronic footprints or digital signatures from this moment forward.
Sarah leaned her head back against the soft leather headrest and closed her heavy eyes.
The pathetic, ruined image of Greg’s tear-streaked face flashed vividly in her tired mind.
She had desperately wanted to hurt him, to crush his massive ego into a fine dust.
She had wanted to show him that the boring, invisible wife he so openly despised was actually a sleeping giant.
She had wanted him to realize that he was far too small and insignificant to even comprehend the world she came from.
But in her blinding rage, she had been incredibly reckless and foolish.
For ten long, agonizing years, she had simply been Sarah Ryan, a quiet librarian and an absolute nobody.
That carefully cultivated anonymity had been her ultimate armor against a very dark world.
It protected her not from the mundane threat of poverty, but from the vicious wolves that had torn her family apart in the winter of ninety-eight.
By standing in that grand ballroom and publicly declaring her royal heritage, she had made a fatal error.
By wielding the immense financial power of her family’s trust to crush her husband, she had essentially lit a massive bonfire in a pitch-black forest.
Now, the ancient monsters were finally coming out of the shadows to investigate the blinding light.
Miles away from the quiet luxury of the Maybach, the situation was entirely different.
In a grime-streaked, foul-smelling alley located behind a decaying dive bar in Hell’s Kitchen, Greg was completely falling apart.
He was violently vomiting onto his own expensive patent leather shoes.
The freezing rain was relentless, soaking entirely through his custom-tailored tuxedo.
The fine, imported wool was rapidly turning into a heavy, wet shroud that clung desperately to his shivering frame.
He had been physically thrown out of the prestigious museum by the massive security guards.
They had literally tossed him onto the unforgiving concrete sidewalk like a bag of worthless garbage.
He had wandered aimlessly for dozens of blocks, completely dazed and disoriented.
He walked until the potent adrenaline crashed entirely and the sheer volume of alcohol took complete control of his system.
He wiped his foul mouth with the back of his trembling, rain-slicked hand.
His gold Rolex was still securely fastened to his wrist, a mocking reminder of the wealth he had just lost.
But his leather wallet was completely gone, left behind in the museum coat check that he hadn’t been allowed to retrieve.
His sleek smartphone was completely dead, a useless brick of glass and metal in his soaking pocket.
He muttered bitterly to the wet brick wall, his voice cracking with intense self-pity.
He screamed into the empty alley that she had completely ruined him.
He kicked a rusted metal trash can with all his remaining strength, sending it clattering loudly into a deep, oily puddle.
He cursed her loudly, calling her a lying, manipulative, quiet little witch.
He wasn’t thinking for a single second about the agonizing years of emotional neglect he had inflicted upon her.
He wasn’t thinking about Heather, who had cowardly abandoned him the exact moment the security guards grabbed his arms.
Heather had hopped directly into a waiting yellow taxi without casting a single backward glance at him.
He was thinking only of his own monumental fall from grace.
In his own twisted, narcissistic mind, he was the ultimate victim of a cruel and unfair world.
A smooth, heavily accented voice suddenly cut through the sound of the pouring rain.
The voice casually noted that it looked like Greg was having a particularly rough night.
Greg spun around wildly, swaying slightly on his feet as he tried to locate the source of the sound.
Standing calmly at the dark mouth of the alley, perfectly silhouetted against the flickering streetlights, was a solitary figure.
The man was holding a large, impeccably clean black umbrella that shielded him from the storm.
Greg slurred angrily, telling the stranger to piss off and leave him alone.
He aggressively stated that he didn’t have any money to give to a mugger.
The man stepped forward slowly, revealing that he already knew Greg was entirely broke.
He was dressed elegantly in a long, charcoal-colored trench coat that looked completely impervious to the weather.
He was handsome, but in a very sharp, unsettling, geometric way.
He had unnaturally high cheekbones, pale, dead eyes, and a thin mouth that looked like it had never formed a genuine smile.
He casually mentioned that he had just watched the news on the displays in Times Square.
He noted that the live streams from the spectacular gala were currently trending globally across every social media platform.
He described the complete fall of the great Greg Ryan as a very dramatic and entertaining spectacle.
Greg bristled like a cornered animal, his wounded pride flaring up despite his miserable condition.
He sarcastically asked the stranger if he wanted an autograph from a ruined man.
He aggressively demanded that the man get lost and leave him to his misery.
The stranger calmly closed his dark umbrella as he stepped carefully under the rusted shelter of a fire escape.
He stated flatly that he didn’t want an autograph from a failure.
He looked Greg directly in the eye and offered him a highly lucrative job.
Greg let out a harsh, bitter bark of laughter that echoed off the damp alley walls.
He incredulously asked the impeccably dressed stranger who he was supposed to be.
He sarcastically wondered aloud if the man was a corporate recruiter sent by a rideshare company to hire a ruined CEO.
He puffed out his chest slightly, a pathetic attempt to regain some dignity, and proudly declared that he used to run a massive logistics empire.
The man gently corrected him, his tone smooth and deadly, noting the past tense of Greg’s statement.
He stated that Greg was now simply a broken man with a very specific set of bitter grievances.
More importantly, the stranger added, Greg possessed incredibly intimate knowledge of a woman currently calling herself Sarah.
The sudden, unexpected mention of his wife’s assumed name completely sobered Greg instantly.
He narrowed his bloodshot eyes, trying to focus on the man standing in the shadows.
He defensively asked how the stranger could possibly know anything about Sarah.
The man smiled thinly, a chilling expression that didn’t reach his cold eyes, and said he knew exactly who she used to be.
He added smoothly that he also knew exactly who she was desperately trying to become.
The stranger explained that his employers—a group of very interested parties from the old world—had been relentlessly searching for her.
They had been hunting for the sole living heir to the Valwis Kernikstall legacy for a very, very long time.
He admitted that they had almost given up, believing the bloodline had completely died out decades ago.
They truly thought the devastating fire they set in the winter of ninety-eight had finally finished the job.
But tonight, he noted with a hint of dangerous amusement, she had boldly stepped right out of the ashes for the entire world to see.
The stranger reached deep into his charcoal coat and produced a gleaming, solid silver cigarette case.
He casually popped it open and offered one of the expensive cigarettes to a trembling Greg.
The man finally introduced himself, his voice soft and terrifyingly calm, as Tyler.
He stated clearly that he represented the very people that Greg’s wife had been terrified of for her entire life.
Greg hesitated for a long moment, staring at the silver case, before his trembling fingers finally took the cigarette.
Tyler smoothly produced a heavy gold lighter and sparked a flame, lighting the cigarette for the ruined CEO.
Greg inhaled deeply, the harsh smoke burning his throat, and asked Tyler why he was talking to him instead of hunting her.
Tyler smiled again, an expression that looked more like a predator baring its teeth than a display of amusement.
He explained patiently that Greg was the absolute only person currently alive who had lived inside her house for the past decade.
He pointed out that Greg intimately knew her daily habits, her deeply hidden weaknesses, and her psychological blind spots.
Most importantly, Tyler whispered, Greg knew exactly where she went when she was truly terrified and needed to hide.
Greg spat forcefully onto the wet pavement, scoffing at the idea that his wife was afraid of anything.
He bitterly recounted how she had just publicly dissolved a billion-dollar logistics company as if she were simply throwing away a used tissue.
Tyler gently corrected him, assuring him that she was indeed completely terrified, and rightfully so.
He asked Greg rhetorically why a billionaire heiress would choose to pretend to be a nobody for ten long years.
Tyler took a slow step closer, invading Greg’s personal space, his voice dropping to a seductive, conspiratorial whisper.
He offered Greg a simple, incredibly dark deal.
He asked Greg to help the syndicate find her and retrieve what her family had stolen from them seventy years ago.
In return, Tyler promised with absolute certainty that they would give Greg his entire life back.
They would restore his logistics company, refill his bank accounts, and completely repair his shattered public reputation.
Tyler promised to make Greg a powerful king, if only Greg would help them quickly catch the runaway queen.
Greg stared down at the glowing ember of the cigarette burning intensely between his numb fingers.
He vividly remembered the look of cold, unyielding fire on Sarah’s face as she systematically humiliated him in front of his peers.
He remembered the mocking laughter of the massive crowd, the people he had spent his entire life trying to impress.
He looked back up at the assassin, his moral compass completely shattered by a combination of alcohol, rage, and pure greed.
He asked Tyler, his voice raspy and desperate, what exactly he needed to do to seal the deal.
Tyler’s pale eyes gleamed with dark satisfaction as he simply asked for the location of the safe house.
The actual safe house was not at all what one would expect a billionaire’s hidden fortress to look like.
It wasn’t a heavily fortified subterranean bunker hidden beneath a mountain.
It was a massive, open loft located inside an incredibly old, derelict meatpacking warehouse on the desolate West Side.
The sprawling space was accessible only by a massive, grinding freight elevator that required both a retinal scan and a physical, old-world key to operate.
Sarah sat exhausted on a plush velvet sofa situated exactly in the center of the dark, cavernous industrial space.
The walls were made of exposed, crumbling brick covered in massive, heavy tapestries that looked distinctly medieval.
The large warehouse windows were securely shuttered from the inside with thick, immovable steel plates.
Dan was pacing relentlessly back and forth across the hardwood floor, speaking rapidly into a highly secure satellite phone in rapid German.
Sarah had finally removed the incredibly heavy, suffocating sapphire necklace.
It now sat abandoned on the scratched coffee table, glittering ominously in the dim, amber light cast by a single floor lamp.
She poured herself a massive glass of strong brandy, watching her own hands shake uncontrollably as the liquid splashed against the crystal.
Dan abruptly ended the secure call and turned to face her, his expression graver than she had ever seen it.
He reported bluntly that the syndicate had successfully tracked the pager signal the exact moment it was activated.
The transmission had triangulated perfectly to the museum gala, pinpointing her exact location within a ten-meter radius.
He stated the grim reality that they had to assume the syndicate already had active eyes on the ground in New York.
The syndicate, he reminded her darkly, always had eyes in New York.
Sarah let out a long, heavy sigh, asking Dan if intelligence had identified which specific operative had been sent.
Dan’s jaw tightened as he revealed that all current intel strongly suggested Tyler was already in the city.
Sarah’s glass completely paused halfway to her trembling lips as the sheer terror of that name washed over her.
Tyler was an absolute legend in the darkest, most violent black market circles of underground Europe.
He wasn’t just a simple tracker or a mere hitman for hire.
He was a specialized recovery agent working exclusively for the fallen aristocracies, the ancient families who had lost their political power but retained all their bottomless greed.
He didn’t just find his targets; he systematically and psychologically dismantled them piece by piece before ending their lives.
Sarah whispered softly, staring at the onyx ring on her finger, that he would inevitably come for the signet.
The signet ring was the physical key that contained the complex access codes to the deepest Swiss vaults.
That vast fortune was all the syndicate had ever truly wanted from her family.
Dan quickly suggested they immediately move the remaining assets, transfer the funds to untraceable accounts in the Caymans, and completely dissolve the ancient trust.
Sarah’s eyes snapped open, the momentary fear instantly replaced by a sudden, incredibly cold surge of pure steel.
She flatly refused his suggestion, her voice ringing with absolute authority in the empty loft.
She fiercely reminded him that running and hiding money was exactly what her father had done, and they had brutally murdered him for it.
She angrily stated that she had spent ten miserable years hiding in plain sight.
She had spent a decade washing Greg’s dirty socks and quietly listening to his pathetic insults just to stay invisible and safe.
She stood up abruptly, the strong brandy violently sloshing over the rim of her crystal glass and staining the floor.
She declared with burning conviction that she was absolutely done hiding from the monsters in the dark.
She freely admitted to Dan that she had made a massive, unforgivable mistake that evening by letting her wounded pride dictate her actions.
She acknowledged that she had exposed them all, but swore that now the mask was off, she would never put it back on.
Dan asked her respectfully what she was proposing they do to counter the imminent threat.
Sarah reasoned methodically, pacing the room, that if Tyler was already here, he would desperately try to find leverage.
He couldn’t just blindly storm a hidden fortress; he needed a specific way in, a key to open the door.
She walked over to the thick steel shutters, peering carefully through a tiny slit into the dark, rainy street below.
She stated with sudden, terrifying certainty that Tyler would go directly for Greg.
Dan frowned in confusion, dismissing her ex-husband as a useless, broke, drunkard fool who had just been stripped of everything.
Sarah turned around, her expression incredibly dark and serious.
She agreed that Greg was indeed a desperate, angry fool.
But she pointed out that he was a fool who knew her face, knew her voice, and knew the intimate layout of the city.
Most dangerously, she added, Greg harbored a deep, burning hatred for her after what she had just done to him.
Tyler absolutely loved exploiting broken men exactly like Greg, feeding on their intense desperation and need for revenge.
Dan’s eyes widened in sudden realization, understanding that if Tyler managed to turn Greg, the fool would instantly become a highly effective weapon.
Sarah finished the thought, explaining that Greg unfortunately knew about the summer house in Newport and the private safe deposit box at Chase.
He knew just enough scattered details to lead a master tracker directly to the hidden breadcrumbs.
Sarah set her glass down on the table with a sharp, definitive clink.
She commanded Dan that they needed to find Greg immediately, before Tyler could dig his poisonous claws in too deep.
Or, she added darkly, if Tyler already had him, they needed to permanently neutralize the threat.
Dan stiffened visibly, asking respectfully if she was truly speaking of neutralizing her own husband.
Sarah quickly corrected him, reminding him that Greg was now her ex-husband, and clarifying that she was speaking of leverage, not outright murder.
She ordered Dan to immediately activate the passive tracking beacon hidden inside Greg’s expensive watch.
She explained that the custom Submariner she had given him for their fifth anniversary contained a tiny, untraceable GPS chip in the bezel.
She had originally installed it suspecting he was having an affair, but now she just desperately needed to know if he was currently betraying her to an executioner.
Dan quickly typed on his ruggedized tablet, bringing up a highly detailed, glowing blue map of Manhattan.
A small, rapidly blinking red dot appeared on the screen, indicating that Greg was currently moving north in a vehicle.
Sarah walked over and stared intently at the glowing screen as the dot moved steadily toward the Upper West Side.
It was heading directly toward the exact location of the one highly secure safe house her father had built in the nineteen eighties.
It was the one hidden location Greg actually knew about because she had foolishly taken him there once, vaguely calling it her uncle’s old apartment.
Sarah’s blood ran entirely cold as she realized he wasn’t just wandering the streets; he was actively leading the assassins directly to the primary archive.
Dan’s face paled as he realized the physical ledgers containing the names of every remaining ally in Europe were stored in that exact room.
Sarah grabbed her heavy winter coat, ordering Dan to load the car immediately and bring the heavy weapons case they hadn’t opened since Berlin.
She calmly checked the chamber of a small, silver pistol she pulled from her purse, her eyes burning with pure, unadulterated focus.
She declared that if Greg wanted a war, he was about to find out that managing logistics wasn’t the only thing she knew how to organize.
She strode purposefully toward the freight elevator, promising that tonight, they would finally stop running.
The interior of Tyler’s sleek sedan was completely silent, save for the rhythmic, hypnotic thrum of the windshield wipers battling the relentless downpour.
Greg sat rigid in the passenger seat, clutching the leather door handle as if he were preparing to jump out of the moving vehicle at any second.
Tyler casually observed that Greg was shaking, noting smoothly that the reality of betrayal was a very heavy and difficult thing to process.
He added that selling out the woman you slept beside for ten years to a group of men who do not believe in mercy requires a certain terrifying flexibility of the soul.
Greg defensively snapped that she had betrayed him first, lying to him every single day and making him feel small.
He justified his actions by loudly reminding Tyler that she had stood there and laughed while he lost absolutely everything he had ever worked for.
Tyler smoothly turned the steering wheel, merging the car onto Central Park West, and agreed that Greg was simply seeking a necessary balance.
The car finally slowed to a stop as they approached a looming, imposing pre-war building located on West Seventy-Second Street.
It was a massive fortress of dark limestone and intricate gargoyles standing ominously against the stormy, lightning-streaked sky.
Tyler asked if this was the location, and Greg nodded, remembering the day Sarah had brought him to this exact spot three years ago.
He recalled how she had referred to it as her uncle’s dusty old pied-à-terre, a place she occasionally visited to clean old books.
He whispered that the archive was located in apartment four-B, and she always referred to it simply as the library.
Tyler didn’t bother to park the car; he simply stopped it entirely in the middle of the dark street and engaged the hazard lights.
He turned to Greg and ordered him to get out of the car, explaining that he needed Greg to physically bypass the doorman and the electronic keypad.
Tyler produced a small, complex-looking pistol with a massive suppressor attached, a weapon that looked more like a surgical instrument than a gun.
He threatened Greg, promising that if he hesitated or tried to run, the heavy rain would wash away his blood very quickly.
Greg felt the last remaining drops of blood drain entirely from his face, suddenly realizing the horrific reality of the violent world he had just entered.
He had wanted petty revenge and his money back, but looking into Tyler’s dead, shark-like eyes, he knew there was absolutely no going back.
He slowly opened the car door and stepped out into the freezing, unforgiving rain.
Three blocks away, the massive, armored Maybach tore violently through a red light, its massive engine roaring like a trapped, furious beast.
Dan shouted from the front seat that the tracking signal was completely stationary at the Ardsley building on West Seventy-Second.
Sarah sat in the back, her hands moving with incredible, practiced efficiency as she loaded a compact HK-fourteen-sixteen carbine.
She pulled the heavy charging handle back with a sharp, mechanical clack that sounded incredibly cold and terrifyingly final.
She ordered Dan to violently ram the front entrance if he had to, stating flatly that they did not have any time for subtle finesse.
She warned that if Tyler managed to get his hands on the red ledger, he wouldn’t just destroy her; he would destroy the future of every family listed inside.
Dan floored the accelerator, the massive car hurtling through the slick, rain-swept streets like a guided missile.
The heavy oak door to apartment four-B didn’t creak at all; it opened with the smooth, oiled silence of a bank vault.
Greg stood nervously on the threshold, his hand violently trembling as he turned the physical key in the lock.
Inside, the stale air smelled strongly of ancient beeswax, old vellum, and the distinct tang of ozone.
It wasn’t a standard apartment at all; it was a massive, climate-controlled mausoleum of highly sensitive information.
Floor-to-ceiling shelves lined absolutely every wall, filled entirely with heavy leather-bound ledgers dating back to the eighteenth century.
Tyler pushed past Greg, whispering in genuine awe at the massive collection of European memory rotting in a pre-war walk-up.
He holstered his suppressed pistol, incredibly confident in his absolute victory, and walked straight toward a raised podium in the center of the room.
Resting carefully on a velvet cushion was a single, thick book bound in bright crimson leather and deeply embossed with a golden griffin crest.
Tyler murmured that this was the red ledger, the ultimate prize containing enough leverage to blackmail half the governments in the G-seven.
Greg stood nervously by the open door, freezing water dripping steadily from his ruined tuxedo onto the priceless Persian rug.
He stammered desperately, reminding Tyler that he had delivered the prize and demanding his promised reward.
Tyler laughed out loud, not even bothering to turn around as he carefully picked up the heavy, priceless book.
He sighed dramatically, calling Greg a simple logistics man who only saw point A and point B, but never saw the massive cliff in between.
Tyler slowly turned around, raising the suppressed pistol and aiming it directly at Greg’s violently heaving chest.
He stated coldly that there was no company, there was no deal, and that Greg was simply an untidy loose end that needed to be clipped.
Greg flinched violently, squeezing his eyes shut tightly in pure terror, helplessly waiting for the fatal flash of the gun.
Suddenly, the heavy front door exploded completely inward, shattering entirely off its solid brass hinges in a shower of deadly splinters.
Before Greg could even process the destruction or scream, a massive concussive boom shattered the heavy air.
A military-grade flashbang grenade skittered rapidly across the rug, detonating instantly in a blinding wall of pure white light and deafening sound.
Tyler fired his weapon blindly through the thick smoke, the quiet thip of his suppressor completely lost in the ringing, agonizing silence.
Through the clearing smoke, a dark figure moved with terrifying, fluid precision that looked absolutely nothing like a quiet librarian.
Sarah stepped aggressively through the ruined doorway, looking exactly like an avenging angel of death in her torn velvet gown.
She didn’t hesitate, she didn’t monologue, and she didn’t spray bullets wildly into the room.
She raised the heavy carbine and fired two perfectly placed shots directly into the assassin.
Tyler crumpled instantly to the floor, the precious red ledger slipping from his dying fingers and hitting the rug with a heavy thud.
He grasped desperately at his shattered shoulder and ruined knee, completely neutralized but kept intentionally alive.
The profound silence finally returned to the ruined archive, broken only by the distant, rising wail of police sirens approaching from the street below.
Sarah slowly lowered the smoking weapon as Dan stepped quickly into the room behind her, securing the bleeding assassin with heavy plastic zip ties.
Greg was huddled pathetically in the corner of the room, shaking violently with his hands clamped tightly over his ringing ears.
He looked up slowly to see his wife standing tall over him, fully expecting her to scream, cry, or beat him in anger.
But Sarah simply looked down at him, her striking violet eyes completely clear and utterly devoid of any emotion whatsoever.
Greg choked out her name, reaching a trembling hand toward her ankle, begging her to understand that he was forced into it.
He frantically promised that he could change, that they could easily fix this, and that he would sign an entirely new prenuptial agreement.
Sarah looked down at him with immense pity, then glanced at the priceless red ledger lying safely on the floor.
She gestured calmly for Dan to pick up the book, telling Greg in an incredibly weary voice that there was absolutely nothing left to fix.
She coldly stated that he had foolishly broken the ancient seal and willingly let the darkest wolves into their home.
Greg sobbed openly, reminding her that he was still her husband and begging her not to leave him there for the approaching police.
Sarah turned her back on him, walking slowly toward the completely shattered doorway without a single hint of hesitation.
She paused for just a fraction of a second, looking back over her shoulder one final time at the pathetic man crying on the floor.
She told him to simply tell the police the absolute truth when they arrived.
She instructed him to tell them that he had arrogantly tried to replace a wife he never actually took the time to know.
She told him to confess that he had foolishly traded a priceless diamond for a cheap piece of broken glass.
Most importantly, she added, he should tell them that he messed with the house of Valwis Kernikstall and lost absolutely everything.
Greg screamed her name one last time, his voice cracking horribly as he desperately asked if she really hated him that much.
Sarah stopped in the dark hallway, but she didn’t bother to look back at him.
She stated softly that she didn’t hate him at all, and in fact, she felt absolutely nothing for him whatsoever.
She told him coldly that he was simply a very bad investment that she had finally decided to completely write off.
She disappeared silently into the dark stairwell, followed closely by her loyal guard, vanishing entirely into the cold New York night.
Matthew Ryan was left entirely alone in the smoking ruin of the archive, kneeling helplessly in the wreckage of his own shattered life.
THE END
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