FLASHBACK: SEVEN YEARS AGO CONTINUED
Ryker
The ink was barely dry on the last signature when I stood up, shook the lawyer’s hands, and stuffed the documents into my briefcase like they meant nothing. But they meant everything. SparkForge. Finally mine. The estates, the stocks, the damn legacy they were mine now. All the years of waiting, of playing the game, pretending to have a wife just to get it done… Well technically we were married but it was a mere contract agreement, it had worked.
She stood beside me, quiet like always, her face calm. Too calm. Like she hadn’t just conned her way into a fortune. I looked at her, resisting the urge to roll my eyes. If she thought this little contract made her important, she had another thing coming.
I should have left it at that and abandoned h
