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Helen Milton hadn’t been in active control for months, but she watched everything. When Steven told her about the clause, something inside her fractured. “I don’t remember that,” she whispered, her voice thin with disbelief. “You wouldn’t,” Princewill said gently. “It was embedded.” Helen stared at the contract summary on the tablet as though the words might rearrange themselves into something familiar. They didn’t. She closed her eyes, replaying that rainy afternoon in her mind. Victor Hale’s voice, his patience, his reassuring smile. Then Adrian Voss calmly spoke to her and all that. “You made me feel like I was saving the company,” she said faintly, almost to herself. Steven knelt beside her chair. His movements were careful, controlled. “You were,” he said softly. “No.” Helen shook her head slowly. Tears pooled but didn’t fall. “I handed him the keys to ruin us and everything we've built.” The admission seemed to hollow her out. Guilt burned hotter than ange
CHAPTER 277
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
CHAPTER 275
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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