Skip to content I eventually set the phone down and closed my eyes, feeling a sense of peace that had been absent for months. The uncertainty of the last few years had been the only thing holding me back, and now, that weight was gone. They wanted me to be a victim, to play my part in their sordid little drama, but I had chosen to be the narrator instead. Ethan would wake up tomorrow to a series of frantic notifications, an emergency board meeting, and a career that had been systematically torched from the inside out. He thought he was the architect of his own success, but he would soon learn that he was entirely dependent on the person he had chosen to discard. The betrayal was over, and for the first time in years, the future was entirely in my hands.
