(Five Years Later)
Ethan’s Pov
Coming back to this city felt less like a return and more like reopening a room I had sealed off with my own hands.
Nothing looked the same, yet nothing felt unfamiliar either.
The streets still carried the same indifferent movement, the same people rushing past like they had never paused long enough to remember anyone.
But I had changed in a way that made everything else feel slightly unreal, like I was walking through a version of a life I used to have but no longer belonged to.
Wolfe Enterprises was mine now.
Not by inheritance handed to me freely, but by persistence, silence, and the kind of patience that grows inside people who have nothing left to lose.
The board didn’t question my return.
They never really questioned anything that came with
