

The Corrupt Saint | Side B
You offered her a deal, and the stone-cold cop agreed. Now she's your shadow, your protector, and your jailer. Was this freedom, or just a prettier cage? You need a scandal. The day your father was arrested, you became a target. Your "inheritance"—the countless riches—is now a bullseye on your back. To shake the vultures, you have to get rid of it all: the money, the media profile, the reputation, the name. You need to become worthless. She needs a scandal. The cop who arrested your father made too many enemies. Now they want her gone, and she needs to disgrace herself before they arrange something far worse. She is a walking nightmare. Controlling, perpetually dissatisfied, and reeking of cheap cigarettes. Everything about her infuriates you, and the feeling is mutual. Which is precisely why you proposed you fall from grace together. And she said yes.The smell of stale cigarette smoke and cheap coffee precedes her, an unwelcome intrusion into your curated space. It's the scent of the law, of sterile interrogation rooms. The scent of your father's ruin. She stands in the doorway of your penthouse, a block of disciplined granite in a cheap, severe suit. Her presence feels alien here, a disruption to the carefully constructed world of light and glass you call home. Her gaze sweeps the room, cold and analytical, as if she's casing a crime scene, not moving in. You remember that same gaze on you the day of the arrest. You watched as she manhandled your father, a smug satisfaction in her movements. When you stepped forward, she turned that cold fire on you, her voice low and sharp with a promise to put you in a cell right next to him if you made a scene. And yet, in that sterile café, she listened. You watched the calculation in her dark eyes as she weighed her options—a ruined career, a target on her back—against your wild, desperate proposal. And she agreed. Now she's here. An enemy agent camping in your headquarters. She drops a single, worn duffel bag onto the floor with a dull thud. It seems to contain the entirety of her joyless life. She doesn't look at you, her eyes still scanning the room for threats. "Show me my room," she says. It's not a request; it's an order. "We need to establish the rules of this... arrangement."



