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MATT'S POV

The next day, I kept thinking about what had happened. It was horrendous and nothing but shocking. What was that man really thinking? That I was going to let down everything I had worked for like that? Impossible! My thoughts were confused with anger and a burning hatred that I couldn't shake and this time it wasn't just for Adeline and her useless boyfriend but also for that midget who called himself a lawyer.

I knew it wasn't totally his fault because he had never met me, he had never known what it meant to be great, to have everything at your fingertips, to have the power to control your destiny. And it wasn't surprising because he had been robbed physically, and that had surely affected his mentality no doubt. He had no idea what it felt like to conquer the world, to have people at your beck and call.

I knew that he was useless, a coward who couldn't get me out of here and it has been the gut choice. But I wasn't giving up. I had connections, people who could make thi