HAYES
By the time the dark gray light of dawn broke through the high slit windows of my study, Kieran’s empire wasn't just collapsing—it was completely turned to ash.
I sat behind my desk, my eyes bloodshot, watching the final digital ledger from the neutral zone banks clear out the remaining reserve funds from the Riverstone account. Every single asset he had built his pathetic, tyrannical reputation on was gone. The silver transits had been entirely seized under the guise of an internal security audit, and his private enforcers had already begun abandoning the southern border walls before the sun even cleared the tree line. He was ruined. Stripped bare. And he still had no idea whose hand had cut the throat of his power.
“He is weak now,” Kyle growled deep inside my chest, his voice a
