Veronica Fury sat on the plush couch of her expansive living room, the muted hum of the television filling the space.
She hadn’t moved for hours, her teacup growing cold on the table beside her.
It was playing on every station: news after relentless news, all beating away at the same unmerciful message.
Taylons Enterprises was going under. Headlines of betrayal and scandal and bankruptcy screamed their protests as Taylor Fury's good name was dragged through the mud with ruthless force.
Her hands shook, clutching the remote, as fingers refused to work for her to shut off the TV.
"Fallen empire," they said. "A father's legacy, in ruins."
She blinked hard, as if she would wish the words gone, but they would not be gone. They burned deeper into her mind.
Her vision blurred, and her
