The freezing rain battered against my skin, stinging like tiny needles, but I barely felt it. All I could feel was the terrifying, suffocating reality crashing down on me.
I stood at the edge of the helipad, the dark abyss of the ocean roaring just inches behind my heels. Before me stood Dante Salvatore, the devil who had systematically dismantled my entire existence just so he could be the one to put it back together.
"You're insane," I screamed over the howling wind, my voice raw and broken. "You destroyed my family's legacy! You destroyed my life!"
"I destroyed a lie!" Dante roared back, taking a slow, deliberate step forward. The security lights cast long, demonic shadows across the sharp planes of his face. "Your legacy was being stolen out from under you by a coward! Your life was
