An Eye For An Eye: The Rise Of Cassius Lucas

Thrown Like Garbage

The rain poured with relentless intensity, turning the streets of Langley Heights into glistening rivers of silver. Allesandra trudged through the rainfall , her once-elegant beige coat clinging to her body like a second skin, weighed down by the water that drenched her to the "bone". Her boots, caked in mud, splashed through shallow puddles as her trembling hands clutched the strap of the nylon she was holding. Her long dark hair, soaked and tangled, plastered against her pale face as she approached the familiar path that led to her family’s estate.

She paused at the front of her house, tears mingled with raindrops on her cheeks as memories rushed in like a cruel flood. The only daughter of Johnson Emipre, one of the principal shareholders of Ryker’s Oil Company was now standing in front of her family's empire like an animal. She remember how she was treated like an animal back at the hostel.

Her swollen eyes gazed upward at the dark sky, thunder rolling like a war drum in the distan