“I spent a year acting like the perfect, submissive girlfriend to Dale, fetching his beers and enduring his cheating. I even saved up for three months to buy him a custom leather jacket for the day he became a fully patched member of the Redeemer Knights. But at his patching-in party, he publicly humiliated me. He draped the jacket I bought over another girl, Bianca, and raised his glass to the crowd. "To Bianca! My beautiful new Old Lady!" The entire clubhouse erupted in cheers, mocking my pathetic loyalty. Bianca sauntered over, poured a glass of ice-cold whiskey over my head, and called me a drowned rat. When I dared to react, Dale tried to punch me in the face. Later, his new girl's family even sent club enforcers to hunt me down, ordering them to break both of my legs and destroy my face so I would suffer forever. They all thought I was just a weak, helpless orphan they could easily crush and discard. They thought I would just cry, beg, and accept my miserable fate. But they didn't know that the timid Caroline Shaffer was just a carefully crafted cover. The cold whiskey snapped my suppressed memories awake. I am Echo, a top-tier underground field surgeon and lethal operative. Wiping the liquor from my face, the weak Caroline evaporated. I shattered a glass against the bar and pressed the jagged edge to Bianca's throat. The game was just beginning.”