Three Wishes to Ruin

Summary

The night Hayes Enterprises went under, Nora tried to bleed out in the bathtub.

I was the one who kicked through the bathroom door, who wrapped the tourniquets around both her wrists with trembling fingers, who held her shuddering, drenched body against my chest until the paramedics arrived. In the hospital room, smelling of sterile bleach and iron, she gripped the collar of my shirt and wept until her voice frayed into nothing.

"Brandon, I ruined you," she sobbed, her fingernails digging into my arms. "I dragged you into millions of dollars of predatory debt. Please… just let me die.