In the blink of an eye, Beatriz had already been living abroad for two months.
Back in Nevada, almost immediately after Hazel's disastrous live stream, Lucas had personally delivered his sister to prison. Hazel was charged with a sentence of over twenty years for double vehicular manslaughter and hit-and-run. Although Lucas had actively covered for her back then, he somehow managed to dodge jail time himself.
But his freedom came at a massive cost. Over the past two months, under the relentless, suffocating pressure of the Smith Consortium, the Mercer Group had been pushed to the absolute brink of bankruptcy. Lucas had been brutally kicked off the board of directors, and his comfortable life had completely unraveled.
Beatriz's broken legs had finally healed, but because the trauma had b
