ARIA

For the past three weeks, things have been moving as smoothly as I could have ever imagined. It was almost unnerving.

Mark had been on his best behavior. He showed up to work on time, attended the board meetings without his usual arrogance, and signed the restructuring documents I put in front of him without a single argument. It was safe to say he was finally accepting the fact that what is gone is gone.

When I first drained that vault, pulling the billions into the secure Phoenix Holdings account, I honestly thought he would tear the city apart. I expected him to hire underground hackers, call in favors...