Chapter 1

After my boyfriend’s sister, Chloe, was sexually assaulted and committed suicide, everyone accused me of protecting the monster who did it.

His mother collapsed on my doorstep, sobbing and begging for answers, but I shut the door in her face.

The internet doxxed me. Angry mobs poisoned my only companion, my cat Casper.

Ten years later, as I lay on my deathbed, my ex-boyfriend, Lucas, returned. He was now a tech billionaire, powerful and ruthless.

The first thing he did upon returning to the city was drag me onto the Memory Judgement Platform—a futuristic trial reserved only for death row criminals.

"Elena, you absolute monster! You protected a rapist! Chloe and I were blind to ever call you a friend!"

"Chloe has been dead for ten years, and you let her attacker run free for a decade!"

"Today, I’m going to use my memory extractor to show the entire world exactly who you’ve been protecting!"

But when the face of the attacker finally appeared on the giant screen, Lucas’s face went dead white.