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Dawn did nothing to soften Roman Kovac. From the overlook above the harbor, he watched the city wake unaware that its circuitry had already been rewired. Dock 47 swarmed below. Federal vehicles, flashing lights. Men in windbreakers moving with rehearsed urgency. Adrian Voss standing straight-backed despite the pressure folding in around him. Roman lowered the binoculars. Voss had done well. He had absorbed the first wave exactly as designed. Insulation. Roman didn’t need loyalty. He needed layers. And now, the next phase is yet to begin. ***** At the Milton estate, exhaustion tasted metallic. Steven hadn’t slept. Sarah hadn’t stopped pacing. Harry watched the morning coverage with a veteran’s skepticism, arms folded, jaw tight. Princewill arrived in person. “You made them move faster than expected,” he said, placing a tablet on the glass table. “Three subpoenas issued overnight. Asset freezes pending review. Voss is being processed.” “Processed,” Harry mutt
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He glanced at the screen and for the first time, his composure fractured. “You triggered it,” Voss said sharply. Steven met his gaze. “You said narrative matters,” he replied evenly. “Let’s test that now shall we?” In the distance— there were sirens, faint at first... then multiplying. Sarah blinked. “You didn’t just send it to journalists.” Steven’s eyes stayed on Voss. “No,” he said quietly. “I sent it to everyone of my people who will take this up to the ends of the earth if need be.” The fog no longer felt protective, it felt exposed. And Adrian Voss, for the first time that night, looked uncertain. ***** Sirens grew louder in the distance, not close enough to be immediate but close enough to complicate things. Adrian Voss glanced at his phone as notifications stacked rapidly... financial alerts, encrypted messages, media pings. Roman Kovac’s name was beginning to surface in places it had never appeared before. Steven’s phone vibrated. He stepped as
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By ten p.m., the Milton estate no longer felt like a home. It felt like a command center. Sarah stood over the dining table, now covered in maps, port schematics, and satellite images pulled from Steven’s private contacts. “Dock 47 sits on the eastern freight extension,” she said. “Officially decommissioned. Unofficially? It’s a ghost artery.” Steven adjusted the image. “Container storage on the west side. Fuel depot to the north. Water access wide enough for mid-sized cargo vessels.” Harry frowned. “Police presence?” “Minimal,” Steven replied. “It’s privately leased through three shell companies.” Helen looked between them. “You sound like you’ve been there.” Steven didn’t answer immediately. “I have.” Silence. Sarah looked up sharply. “When?” “Three years ago,” he said. “When they approached me. That’s where the meeting took place.” Harry’s jaw tightened. “And you didn’t think to mention that?” “I didn’t think we’d ever circle back to this,” Steven repl
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Steven held his father’s gaze, and for a moment the room seemed to narrow to just the two of them. “It’s about Roman Kovac,” he repeated quietly. Sarah stepped closer. “What about him?” Steven exhaled slowly, as if deciding whether to detonate something fragile. “Roman Kovac isn’t just a financier who preys on distressed empires,” he said. “He built his network on old shipping corridors—corridors that predate sanctions, treaties, and modern customs enforcement. Routes your grandfather helped map.” Harry’s stomach dropped. “That’s impossible,” he said. “Those were legitimate freight lanes.” “They were dual-use lanes,” Steven corrected. “Commercial by day. Invisible by night.” Helen, pale, gripped the back of a chair. “Invisible for what?” Steven didn’t soften it, he simply said it as it was. “Arms. Rare earth minerals under embargo. Biological materials that never made it onto manifests.” Silence followed, it was so thick and suffocating. Harry shook his head. “My
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Something in his tone chilled the room. “You see,” he continued, “your debt was never about money.” Harry felt it then, the shift., that was when he knew they had played right into the hands of an enemy. “What is it about?” he asked. Voss turned to him. “Leverage.” There was silence. “We purchased your debt from smaller parties,” Voss explained. “Consolidated it. Simplified it.” “Why?” Sarah demanded. Voss’s eyes lingered on her. “Because influence is more valuable than currency.” Steven stepped between them. “You’re using this to acquire Milton Group.” “Eventually,” Voss said. “But I prefer surrender to seizure. It’s cleaner.” Harry’s fists clenched. “You’ll get neither.” Voss studied him, looking unimpressed. “You misunderstand your position, Mr Harry, you have no idea who is after your legacy because once they set their mind into acquiring something they get it by all means.” Steven’s voice cut through. “Who do you work for?” Voss smiled.
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Steven didn’t answer immediately, he was still trying to sink in everything as this was something he didn't expect from the man who stood by and watched his family ruin him and did nothing. He stood by the window, city lights painting him in fractured gold and shadow, jaw tight, shoulders rigid. Harry remained where he was, hands at his sides, not reaching, not pleading with gestures. Just standing there like a man who had finally run out of armor. “You want my help,” Steven said at last, voice controlled but vibrating underneath. “After everything you all did to me?” “Yes, you are the only one who can.” “You want me to protect the family that fed me to the wolves that left me for dead!” Harry swallowed. “Yes... we wronged you I will not deny that fact.” Steven laughed once. It wasn’t humor. It was disbelief. “Well the truth is, you all deserved it,” Steven said, turning fully now. His eyes were sharp, cutting. “Every article, every whisper and every invitation that
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