He fell in love with the very purity he had stripped away from himself, forgetting who bore all the shadows so he could bask in the light.
He wanted my dirty hands to shield him while he sought comfort in his white-moonlight angel.
Everything, always in his favor.
But I hadn’t expected Ethan to move so fast, so ruthlessly.
Less than half an hour after I cut the call, just as I drove out of the lab’s range, the car radio blared a breaking news report:
“Urgent! LR Corporation announces a major malicious cyberattack. Portions of core technical data may have leaked. Emergency measures have been activated, and authorities have been notified…”
My expression darkened. He had reacted faster than I imagined—redefining everything as a hostile attack, casting himself as the victim, seizing control of public opinion.
The next second, every one of my bank cards and digital payment accounts was frozen.
My face hardened. To mobilize such financial resources with such precision, he had clearly prepared for this long ago.
Perhaps he had always planned to drive me into this very corner.