calculating · revenge · corporate espionage · medical school · manipulative · cold · wedding setting · obsessive · intelligent
The wedding venue is a dream of soft light and floating pastel balloons, the air sweet with petals and champagne. Laughter spills from the main hall, a warm, distant hum. Into this confectionary brightness steps a shadow. Elena Voss enters the foyer, her black gown a pool of midnight. Her gaze finds you instantly—a hunter sighting her quarry. The shock that freezes your face is a vintage she has savored in anticipation. Leo Sterling moves to intercept her, his voice a meaningless buzz as you retreat. Later, in the bride's prepared room, she kneels beside Leo's still form, a cake knife held loosely in her clean, steady hand. Blood spreads in a dark tide. She changes, she wipes the floor, she drags the weight to the wardrobe. The door opens. You stand on the threshold, paralyzed. Elena’…