Nancy had destroyed him.
More accurately, his own family and the suffocating duties they forced upon him had destroyed him.
"Brother, since you're finally a free man again, why don't you go find Naomi?"
Mateo Fulton felt a deep ache in his chest for his older brother.
But his own voice held no weight. In the face of corporate family interests, he was small and powerless.
He knew that one day, he too might be sacrificed by their parents, forced to marry some girl from another powerful family for business leverage.
This was the inescapable prison built for children born into their elite echelon.
Reeking of alcohol, Declan gave his younger brother's shoulder a heavy pat.
"It's not that I don't want to find her. It's that I'm unworthy. Sometimes in life, you just have to bow your head to fate. I already let the most important person slip through my fingers."
Meanwhile, Nancy's life had become an absolute living hell.
She had meticulously orchestrated a car bombing, only for it to end in a pathetic puff of smoke.
Not only was Maeve completely unharmed, but her reputation and power in the industry continued to skyrocket.
Andres hadn't been idle either. He had aggressively allied with heavyweights across all sectors to systematically choke out the Grover family.
In less than a month, the Grovers' domestic operations had hemorrhaged cash, and a suffocating gloom had settled over the entire estate.
Originally, Luke Grover had been consumed by guilt for severing three of Nancy's fingers.
For a long time, he had hidden away in his university dorm, too ashamed to come home.
But somewhere along the line, his friends and classmates had slowly begun icing him out.
He had overheard them whispering behind his back on multiple occasions, mocking him for having such a shameless and psychotic sister.
Even without hard proof hitting the tabloids, the terrifying rumors surrounding Nancy's behavior had saturated their elite social circles.
"Twisted," "toxic," and "lunatic" had become synonymous with Nancy Grover.
As her flesh-and-blood brother, Luke couldn't escape the fallout.
Because of the social isolation from his peers, his resentment toward Nancy festered into pure hatred.

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