They'd taken everything. Everything, and people simply had let them. People had meekly surrendered the world to them in hopes those CEOs would finally have enough, finally have reason to leave them be. But Tom knew better.

S.J. Kincaid
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People have meekly surrendered the world to them in hopes those CEOs will finally have enough, finally have reason to leave them be. But Tom knew better. He'd seen the fear in these people's eyes; he'd laughed at them, mocked them for their ignorance. He'd known they'd never fight back.

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