The jungle stood as a towering fortress around me, teeming with unseen life and echoing with the distant calls of wild creatures. My heart pounded as I dragged myself onto the muddy riverbank, my thoughts racing faster than the river’s current. Anger and betrayal mixed with a fierce determination. I had been a survivor all my life, and I wasn’t about to let this setback defeat me.
I took a moment to collect myself, the enormity of what had just happened settling in. My mind replayed the scene over and over: my daughter-in-law’s whisper, the shove, my son’s smile. They had planned this meticulously, banking on my demise to secure their inheritance. But they had underestimated me. I had not spent decades navigating the cutthroat world of business to be taken down by a pair of greedy amateurs.
