Tatiana POV

“Death gave me freedom; revenge gave me purpose.”

They buried me in headlines before they ever buried me in earth.

Tatiana Chase Dead by Apparent Suicide.

The photo they used wasn’t even mine. Too perfect, Too polite. A woman who could never burn the world down.

Now, I sit in a cheap rented studio on the outskirts of the city, the kind of place where sirens never stop screaming, where no one asks who you used to be.

The wallpaper peels, the radiator hisses, and the smell of ...