Chapter 35 | Dr. Weber Will See You Now

I stared out at Verano from the backseat of Diane’s luxury sedan. The city skyline gleamed like it was built yesterday, all glass and steel reaching for the sky. Hero billboards plastered every available surface—Radiant’s perfect smile selling toothpaste on one corner, Grande Dame hawking athletic wear on another. The whole city ran on hero worship, and I was about to become an official part of that machine.

If I could just stop scowling first.

"You alright back there?" Sloane twisted in the passenger seat to look at me. Her pink hair was pulled into a sleek ponytail, and she’d dressed up for the occasion in a blouse and dark jeans. Professional but still unmistakably Sloane.

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