“And now?”

“Now the balance is zero. I don’t owe anyone anything.”

Liam looked out at the horizon. “Peace suits you, Elara. Better than the diamonds ever did.”

“Freedom is the only luxury I ever really wanted,” I said.

Behind the gray walls of a state penitentiary, Ethan Vale has ten more years to think about the woman he thought was powerless. Ten more years to realize you should never underestimate someone who knows how to count.

As for me, I no longer spend a second remembering him. I have a company to run, a life to live, and a future that—for the first time—is entirely my own.