Chapter 1: The Man Everyone Waited to Bury
Chapter 1: The Man Everyone Waited to Bury
The entire city believed Roman Vale was already dead.
For three weeks, the most feared man on the East Coast had been lying inside a private hospital room, connected to machines that kept his body alive.
His enemies waited.
His lawyers prepared documents.
His closest men quietly planned how to divide the empire he built.
But nobody knew one thing.
Roman Vale could still hear.
Every word.
Every betrayal.
Every secret whispered beside his bed.
And the only person who treated him like he was still human was the woman nobody noticed.
Emily Carter.
A night cleaner.
A struggling single mother.
A woman who had nothing except her daughter Lily and the determination to survive.
Every night, Emily cleaned Roman’s room and talked to him.
She never knew he heard her.
Until the night she overheard the truth.
Victor Kane, Roman’s second-in-command, wasn’t waiting for a miracle.
He was waiting for a death certificate.
“Forty-seven hours,” Victor whispered.
“The doctors are already paid.”
“The generators only need to fail once.”
Emily froze.
The man everyone trusted was planning to kill Roman.
But when Victor left, Emily noticed something impossible.
A tear rolled down Roman Vale’s face.
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The dead man was listening.
And he was afraid.
