Country: Eldoria Adrian One Month Later. The city stretched endlessly beyond the glass walls of my penthouse. Lights glittered across the skyline like scattered diamonds, cold and distant. From this height the world looked peaceful… untouched by scandal, untouched by ruin. But appearances had always been deceiving. I stood near the window, one hand resting in my pocket, the other holding a glass of whiskey I hadn’t touched in the last twenty minutes. The ice inside had already melted. My gaze remained fixed on the city below. A month. It had only been a month. And yet everything had changed. Not in the explosive way people imagined scandals would destroy a family. There had been no dramatic collapse, no sudden fall from wealth into poverty. The destruction had come quietl

