Not because I was ruthless.

Because I was the one person in the story who could not be bought, and a person who cannot be bought and cannot be frightened and can no longer be drugged is a person with nothing left for anyone to hold over her at all.

Chapter 25 — What I Built

I did not go to Geneva.

I did not have a secret vault or a retrofitted ring or a fortune waiting in the dark.

That was never the story, whatever anyone watching the news assumed.