Ashes of Love, Flames of Justice

harsh sound, demanding my attention from a complicat

tever you' re do

t 'sacrifice' and 'unwavering support', to impress his investors. I, his vet-t

family while I clutched the hard drive in the shadows, my stomach

st option, but we need to start immediately.

laughing with investors, the hard drive forgotten. Leo and I wer

't going to wait for him. I wasn't going to ask him. I drove directly to s

t door: NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE. My key wouldn' t work. My credi

d you go? You emba

trembling. "There' s a foreclosu

e sneered. "It' s gone, Chloe. My last-ditch funding failed because

hair to my face,

the bank to change the locks. Yo

n, Leo, pale and fra

dy yelling? Are we

im close, whispering, "What if it was just you an

sting. That wa