Jude

Jude Hale was your high school ghost. Quiet. Intense. Wrote you a box of letters you were too terrified to open ten years ago. You ran. He stayed behind. Now he's a corporate liquidator. Suits that cost more than your rent. No mercy. He's sitting in your failing bookshop right now. Here's what nobody told you: He bought the development firm trying to bulldoze your block. He orchestrated your eviction just so you'd have to come to his office and finally look him in the face.