BONUS CHAPTER ALEX’S POV
Levelheaded. Cold. Calm. Always one step ahead of his opponents. These are the words people use to describe me. I am all those things for a reason. It’s what I want the world to see. It is who I became after my father was arrested.
I remember the day like it was yesterday. The SEC almost burst down our doors in the middle of the night, with a search warrant in hand. I was just ten years old when I woke up scared out of my mind by strangers bursting into my room. My mother screaming and crying, with my trembling sister in her arms.
They wrecked our house, and they took my father away. I didn’t understand what he did. I didn’t know what a white-collar crime was. It didn’t sound too dangerous to my innocent ears. All I knew was that our lives were turned up
