(Aaliyah’s POV)
I woke up with that same skip in my step that I’d had for the past two weeks since people’s lives started to unravel around us.
After a long time of trying to figure out where in this world I fit in, I was finally happy.
Fulfilled.
And I was wise enough to know that this joy wasn’t the kind one got from something purely good. No… this was dark, twisted, much more delicious, and while it was unusual for me— because let’s face it, I really was a sweet innocent soul who moments ago didn’t think she had it in her to around ruining and blackmailing people, I had quickly learned to live with it, to embrace it even, because every single one of them—every corrupt official, every power-hungry criminal in a suit, every monster pretending to be human—deserved what was coming t
