Empire of Ghosts

THE GHOST OF MARBELLA

~RAFAEL POV~

(Twelve months.)

Three hundred and sixty-five days since I felt the cold bite of glass in my side. Fifty-two weeks since the woman I branded as mine walked out into the night and became a ghost.

I sat in my study, the only light coming from the bank of monitors that never slept. My empire was a hollow shell.

I had liquidated three major shipping ports in the last