The truth became painfully clear to Ace Kane the moment he watched the scene unfold from the window:
he had overestimated Emily Sunford.
Even at her most shameless—when her face was thicker than a concrete wall—she didn’t have the courage to actually jump from the twenty-seventh floor.
Even with the massive safety air cushion below guaranteeing she would walk away without a scratch, she still couldn’t do it.
Instead, when she posed dramatically at the edge, she deliberately turned her back toward the officers behind her, practically inviting them to seize the chance to “save” her.
And when they hurried over and grabbed her, she even screamed at the top of her lungs:
“Let me go! Let me die! Let me die!”
It was an impressive performance.
And thanks to that “performance,” she successf
