But what did I know? I’d been kept locked away on an estate in the Kent countryside for the past ten years by my parents. I didn’t understand why they’d been given the name. The floor below where I was headed must be their offices. The men who owned Fortuity lived on the top two floors of the building. He issued me with a visitor’s pass and told me to head up to the twenty-eighth floor. I tapped on it, typing in my name and signing a box. He indicated a tablet on the desk in front of me. “Of course, if you’d just like to sign in here.” The man nodded and scanned something on his computer before looking up at me again. “Hello, I’m here for an interview with Mr Ackley… I’m Scarlett Carver,” I replied, keeping my voice even so as not to betray my nervousness. The man sitting there looked up with a smile on his face. I walked into the building, holding my head high, and went right up to the reception desk.

And anything I could remember felt like a fuzzy dream as opposed to reality. My childhood was a blank space in my memory.

The parts of my life I could remember anyway. I could not afford to give the game away. And revenge? Well, it led down a path I wasn’t sure I wanted to follow, no matter what they’d done. Whilst I had a goal in mind, there would always be doubts plaguing me. However, I knew deep down there were always two sides to a story. And those things didn’t make me feel anything other than disgust towards them. I didn’t really know anything about the men I was here to see, other than what I’d been told. The tall, imposing building, which towered over me, was made of black stone and glass and housed the company of four men who had risen from the ashes to take over the financial industry. I swallowed when I stopped outside a building.

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