All Chapters of NEXUS TRIAL: The Rise of Liam Parker: Chapter 91
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Chapter 91: After Party
Chapter 91: After PartyThe town car pulled into their neighborhood just after six in the evening and Liam could see the lights on inside the house from the street.It gave him a small quiet satisfaction every time he saw it because there had been a version of his life where coming home meant a shelter bunk and fluorescent lights and the particular exhaustion of having nowhere that was actually yours.That version felt like someone else’s biography now.“She’s going to ask questions,” Liam said to Amanda as they walked up to the front door.“I know,” Amanda said. “I’ve had practice lying to parents. Mine took the wilderness survival story without blinking.”“My mother is more perceptive than that.”“Good thing I’m a decent liar,” Amanda said simply.Alice was in the kitchen when they came through the door, and she looked up from the counter where she had been arranging the flowers she had started buying for the house since discovering that she could.<
Chapter 92: The Call
Chapter 92: The CallCollins called at seven forty three the following morning.Liam was in the kitchen making coffee when the watch pulsed with an incoming call routed through his regular phone, and he looked at the name on the screen and felt the particular satisfaction of a prediction confirmed, which was different from surprise and better than anger and cleaner than either.He let it ring twice before answering.“Collins.”“Liam.” His uncle’s voice carried the careful neutrality of a man who had spent the night recalibrating and had arrived at the reluctant conclusion that cooperation was more valuable than pride. “I’ve been thinking about your offer.”“I assumed you would be,” Liam said.A brief pause. “Gordon is open to selling. I spoke to him last night. He bought the property as an investment and he’s willing to let it go at the right price.”“Three fifty,” Liam said. “That’s still the number.”“He’s asking three seventy five,” Collins said. “The market has moved since I sold