. My engagement to Brooke, stable as the family fortune, was meant
ghtmare that suddenly, terrifyingly, became real: the heavy thud of our m
phone, accusing me of faking it, while a knife plunged into Mom's chest. Barely escaping with my life and a broken body, I stumbled to my fi
h a savage betrayal, painting me as the villain while my mother bled out? The burning injustice tore thr
ld resolve cemented within me: the naive boy was gone, replaced by a man forged in fire, ready to reclaim hi