The Hummingbird's Broken Song

everything

five grueling years working three dead-end jobs – all to pay of

nal cash payment, read

usive VIP lounge to meet his "

struggling entr

laughing with a socialite,

ployee bow

ooth: "Another fifty K from the lit

on, my sacrificed dre

ax: his plan for "phase two," a fake $100,000

ng centuries-old masterpieces, now calloused and t

ved orchestrate such a

feel nothing but contempt? My entire life

s of betrayal, a

asn't for him.

mentor offered a lifeline

dn't c

ng my destiny, and I would face him