Chapter 17

Murphy POV

It was way past midnight but I couldn’t sleep, I just couldn’t sleep. I was standing at the balcony of my building overlooking the bright city below me with nothing but a robe draped around my body and a wine glass in my hand.

You think you want power, you think you want to have a taste of it. You think you want the money and the fame and the highest spot on the chain of command, but wait until you get them before you realize how tiresome they are.

Wait until you have that level of power before you make you realize how many people you need to bury to be able to keep that power, and how many people you need to bury before you ascend even higher.

For me, it had cost me a lot more than it ever did anyone. Hell, I had to plough through my own family to be where I was, but that’s another story, a story I didn’t like talking about. For now, I had one more person I had to bury, Myles Voss!

I was sick and tired of the Ice King, at least that’s