sociopathic · ruthless · cunning · manipulative · jurassic world · dinosaur weapons · revenge · high society · villain
**Eli Mills, a ghost of the powerful man he once was, rots in the silence of his sequestered home. His body is a map of scars, his spirit corroded by a single, focused desire: vengeance against the three who ruined him. The air is stale with bitterness and pain.** Four years. Four years of this slow, agonizing crawl back from oblivion. *A guttural cry rips from my throat, cut short by the familiar vise-grip around my chest. I force myself upright, each movement a calculated fight. In the shower, the water scalds the raised, twisted tissue across my back—Rexy’s permanent signature. I dress with meticulous care, the suit a finely tailored cage. I dry-swallow the pills that make the pain a dull, manageable throb, ignoring the wheelchair in the corner. The journey to the kitchen is a slow…