A Serial Billionaire Killer

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ation of guilt, of justice being served. The jury had dec

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rence, but no one looked at me like I was innocent. No one excep

presence was deafening. His expression was unreadable, but beneat

ross the room and slit the judge's throat with my bare hands. As if I were capable of s

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to prove Ms. Lora

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court. My sentence had been given, the evidence was undeniable..

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e, the woman who clawed her way to the top and still wanted more. They'll say I was ruthless,

ot where the

r amidst whispers of billion-dollar deals. It was in an alley slicke

of a streetlamp. My heels echoed as I walked, the umbrella in my hand an unne

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houlders. His weight pressed into me, and together

pain. I hesitated, watching as he fished a set of keys from his pocke

murmured, his voice faint but edge

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effortlessly into a tone that broo

managed. "A

or a beat too long, then

t carried weight in every corner of New York - a billi

s no myth. Just a man, bleedin

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g uselessly at my side, the world

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