CHARLES POV

“A legacy isn’t given; it’s taken and I intend to take it back.”

Legacy was the only thing that never betrayed you.

People did, Love did and Even sons did.

But legacy, that stayed. It outlived guilt, outlasted morality, and erased every inconvenient truth.

The sun was barely up when I walked into my office.

The city stretched below like a chessboard, every skyscraper a piece I’d once moved or bought.

I had built this empire from dust and hunger, and now the time had come ...