After that, I never saw Adrian again. Still, maybe because we lived in the same city, I occasionally heard bits and pieces about him even though I never asked.
Once the scandal broke, Vanessa and her uncle remained behind bars. Dr. Mercer's medical career was over, and he ended up waiting tables at a small restaurant just to make ends meet.
LatticeCore Technologies' stock plummeted. Business partners canceled their contracts one after another, and the company eventually went under because it was losing more money than it brought in.
The penniless young man who had once sworn in our tiny rental apartment never to let me down had ended up with nothing again.
"I heard he's trying to use his experience to make a comeback. Even if he can't pull it off, his technical skills and experience sh
