Jane's POV
With every step I took, I was stepping into the unknown that I had been avoiding for years. But with every new twist in my mother's murder and the appalling corruption track record of Zack's company, I knew that I couldn't do it by myself. I required someone who had witnessed the plotting of that rotten empire firsthand, someone soiled enough to risk his own fate for telling the truth. I remembered rumors and half-forgotten names from my youth; one name, however, loomed over me like a ghost: Marcus. Marcus had once been a member of the innermost circle of my father's empire. I’d heard rumors about his abrupt departure—how he’d left under a cloud of shame and bitter regret, refusing to be complicit any longer in the web of lies spun by Zack. If there was anyone who could help me
