Love That Never Fades
Language: en
The day Jimmy Slade fully seized control of the Slade family, Portside burned with fireworks all night. Everyone speculated he was finally going to marry me. But I waited from dusk till dawn. What I got instead was the news of Thorne Group's assets being frozen, accusations of my own alleged misdeeds about to land me in prison. I got Jimmy Slade’s hard-won triumph, and the announcement of his engagement to the novel’s heroine. The system’s cold voice chimed: “Congratulations, Host. Mission successfully completed. Would you like to depart this world?” I nodded without hesitation. Later,…