The luminescent overhead lights of the Maren Villa sales center reflected off the polished marble floors, casting a sterile glow on the crowd of prospective buyers. Eva Flynn, still bearing the faint yellowing bruises and the surgical bandage from her recent encounter with Alexis Mackay’s enforcers, was practically vibrating with misplaced resentment. In her twisted logic, her recent suffering wasn't the result of her own arrogance, but rather a direct consequence of Dominic Mylod’s deceit. She was convinced that Tiger—the fearsome Alexis Mackay—had merely been hoodwinked by the spectacle of the Heaven Sacrifice Ceremony, believing Dominic to be a man of genuine power.
To Eva, Dominic remained nothing more than a bottom-feeding parasite, a "kept man" who would soon face a brutal reckoning
