pay you back. I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry to ask. She hit send before she could talk herself out of it. 11:31 p.m. What Clara didn’t know, couldn’t know was that Evelyn Torres had changed her phone number 2 weeks ago. The old number now belonged to someone else. 47 floors above Manhattan, Ethan Mercer stood alone in an 87 million penthouse, watching fireworks explode over a city that worshiped him.
The space around him was a monument to success. Italian marble floors, museum quality art, furniture
