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Chapter 067
The hotel room door closed behind him.Caelan set the bag containing the oval object on the table carefully. His hands were already ready to unwrap it when something made his movement stop.Not a sound. Not a movement.Something more subtle than both.He stood still for two seconds, letting his senses read what was beyond the reach of ordinary eyes and ears. Then he walked to the balcony, opened the glass door, and raised his gaze upward.The rooftop above was clear. No one there.But the trace was there. Thin, already fading, but not thin enough to go unread by someone who had spent enough time recognizing its shape. Spiritual energy left behind by someone who had stood at that point long enough.Someone had been watching him. And that someone was not an ordinary cultivator, because the density of the residual energy left behind didn't match a low-level practitioner.Caelan jumped.One motion, from the balcony to the rooftop, at a speed that didn't give gravity time to object. Up top
Chapter 066
The Varen Auction House staff completed the exchange quickly and efficiently, a manner trained for handling large numbers without excessive expression.Caelan put away his transfer documents and stood briefly outside the cashier area.Two hundred and eighty million dollars.He ran that number through his head again not because he didn't believe it, but because it still felt like something that needed more than one pass to fully register.Three days.Three days since he had walked out of a place he didn't need to name, and that number was already in his account. Not from inheritance, not from a business built over years, not from connections carefully maintained, but from listening to heartbeats at a card table.He drew a quiet breath.Then his thoughts shifted to three other things that couldn't be exchanged for any number on paper.The first: the Verdimite stones. After Dorian had extracted all the stones from the ceramic shards and given him half, he would use all of them for experi
Chapter 065
The second round ran longer than it should have for some people.Harrison stayed in longer than was wise. Pocket Kings forming three of a kind over one King on the board was a hand strong enough to convince anyone they were in a good position. Until Aldous flipped his cards at the showdown and two Aces in his hand met two Aces on the board, forming something there was no rational answer for.Four of a Kind.Four Aces.The pot ran past two hundred million when everything was settled.Harrison pushed his chair back slightly. Forty million. Not a number that would make him poor, but enough to leave a bitterness at the back of his throat that wasn't easy to shake.And what made it worse: Caelan Voss had folded early. He hadn't lost more than fifty thousand from the entire round."He knew. That bastard knew from the very start that Aldous was holding something dangerous."Elara tidied the remaining chips in front of her with unhurried movements. Forty million had also left her table, a num
Chapter 064
The dealer collected the cards from the first round and began shuffling again.At the side of the table, Harrison Blake stared at Caelan's chips now stacked far higher than his own in a way that couldn't quite be called an ordinary look."Who the hell is this man?"A doctor. An antique appraiser. Now a card player sitting at this table for the first time and walking away with two hundred million more in a single round.Harrison had been in this circle long enough to know that someone like Caelan Voss shouldn't exist. Someone who was an expert in medicine was already rare enough. Someone who could read value behind eight unknown ceramic pieces that three professional institutions had passed over was something else entirely. And someone who sat at their first table and walked out with a win like that..."That's approaching the total liquid cash I currently have."His jaw tightened beneath the surface of a smile that remained intact."I have to win. I have to take back what I lost at thi
Chapter 063
Edric Holt drew a slow breath. Two pair in his hand. Strong enough before this number came up, but this number was no longer about cards. It was about Aldous Varen and the smile on his face. And a man who bet fifty million with a smile like that at this table, in front of these people, wasn't someone you could assume had nothing.His face showed a bitter expression.He pushed his cards forward. "Fold."Calloway stared at Aldous's chips for a longer moment. He had Three Queens. Three Queens still beat two pair, still beat one pair, still beat almost every hand on this board, except a straight, except a full house, except quads. And those hands were very likely to be out there. On this board, with A-K-Q-J, anyone with J-10 had Broadway.Was Caelan still in because of J-10?His face showed an expression identical to Edric's. "Fold."The entire room shifted to Caelan.Three seconds of silence.Not long, but enough to be felt by everyone watching."Raise." His voice came out without modula
Chapter 062
The dealer lifted one card from the deck and placed it face-up beside the three flop cards.Queen of Hearts.Caelan looked at the fourth card for one second.Then, without changing a single muscle in his face, he stared straight ahead.J♥ 10♠ in his hand. A♠ K♣ 7♦ on the flop. Q♥ on the turn.A - K - Q - J - 10.Broadway.The highest straight that can be formed in Texas Hold'em. No hand beats it except a royal flush, and this board clearly wasn't offering that possibility to anyone.He was holding the nuts. The best possible hand at this table, right now, in this round, with five cards already showing.Caelan took a sip of his wine.But he kept listening to the heartbeats of the other players.Harrison Blake: the rhythm that had been slow and overly controlled now shifted. Still steady, still trained, but something new was there, like a tiny crack in a very smooth surface. The set of Kings he was holding was strong enough to beat most hands at this table. But the Queen on the turn mea
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