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❝Power is always dangerous. It attracts the worst and corrupts the best.❞
Who is the true villain in this story?
Zayn Malik has always been the good guy, forever doing what he can to make sure that justice is not only se...
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ℤ𝔸𝕐ℕ
POWER. MONEY. VENGEANCE.
They all have something in common.
Each one is of an insidious nature. Leisurely degrading the most righteous and twisting them to be dangerous, destructive, and cold individuals.
Truthfully, I'd never pondered it much—the idea of how quickly trauma can change someone—but experience alters how we as humans think about certain concepts and how we decipher particular circumstances. The brain is a complicated fucking thing.
Perhaps this is why stories are written of angels and demons. Of good versus evil. Heroes and villains.
But what if you think you know who the bad guy is and you're wrong? What if you knew the whole story? Motives and intentions? Would it change your attitude about the person you'd always thought was the wrongdoer?
Is the villain really the villain? Is the hero really the hero? Would it not depend on who's telling the story?
What if everyone was bad in their own way?
Humans are incredibly selfish beings. We want and we take. We turn the other cheek to horrors happening every day because they aren't happening directly to us. We're greedy and we're constantly looking out for number one—ourselves.
Which is only what I was doing as I climbed the ladder.
The people standing around me are doing their best to do the same. To have some sort of status, power, or wealth so that when they enter a room, everyone pauses. They want all the attention to be on them.
I know it well. Each space I enter, I don't have to say a word. Their heads all turn like they're trained to do so. It's a combination of respect, curiosity, and utter terror.
As I glance at Raven beside me, she's the epitome of beauty. She's held the attention of every man and most women in here and she doesn't appear to have any clue about it.
Good thing she's all mine.
Raven is wearing an exquisite black gown with a massive skirt. It's sleeveless, with a high collar that wraps delicately around her neck. The mouthwatering part of it is that there's a slit down the middle of the bust of it—the shape of an eye, if it were twisted vertically—exposing the sides of her breasts in the most elegant, yet sensual way I think I've ever been lucky enough to witness.
