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Chapter 100 The Shadow Moves.
Rebecca waited until the door closed before she let out a breath.Quiet. Controlled. Still heavier than it should have been.The encounter in the atrium replayed in her mind—Lucien Vicker, the name Nicole Nicholson dropped into the open like it belonged there.It hadn’t.Noah’s reaction had been subtle. Anyone else might have missed it.She hadn’t.Nicole.The name settled hard in her chest.Rebecca had never met her. Didn’t need to. The file had been enough—background checks, photographs, timelines. Three years of quiet damage laid out in clean, factual lines.Used him. Dismissed him. Discarded him.And now she was moving again.Rebecca’s jaw tightened.Her hand rose, pressing the earpiece more securely into place. “Status?”“Forward position secure,” came the reply. “No movement on the floor. Noise complaint on fifteen—maintenance handled it. Unrelated.”“Understood.” She stepped away from the door, her pace measured, silent. “Night shift arrives at midnight. I’ll brief them before
Chapter 99: The Weight Of Silence .
Hours later, the convoy slowed, then came to a quiet stop outside Noah’s apartment building.9:47 PM.The time lingered on the dashboard longer than it needed to, like it was trying to mark something important. Or maybe he just noticed things like that more now—small, unnecessary details that filled the space when his mind didn’t want to think too hard about anything else.Outside, the evening had settled into that strange, unfinished color. Not quite dark, not really light either. The sky looked tired. Like it had been dragged from blue into black and hadn’t decided where to stay.Noah stayed where he was.The engine cut off, and with it, the low vibration beneath his feet disappeared. The silence that followed wasn’t immediate—it crept in slowly, filling the car inch by inch until there was nothing else left.He didn’t reach for the door.Didn’t move at all, actually.His hands rested on his thighs, fingers slightly curled, like he’d forgotten what they were supposed to do next. His
Chapter 98. Weak Link.
Rebecca nodded sharply, "Exactly. He made a mistake when he took that photograph at the restaurant. He was not careful enough, and now we have his identity. But here is the important part, he does not know that we have identified him. He does not know that I am aware of his presence or that I have been tracking his movements. That gives us a significant advantage.""An advantage?” Noah tilted his head in confusion, not quite following, "How?""I have already started following him," Rebecca said, giving him a cold smile. "Not directly, because I do not want to risk spooking him or alerting him to the fact that we are onto him. But I have placed a trace on his vehicle, and I am monitoring his movements remotely. Every place he goes, every meeting he takes, every client he visits, I am watching all of it. He will be our way in.""Our way in to what?""To whoever hired him. Fieldman is not the one making decisions here. He is a freelancer with a gambling problem who was hired to do a job.
Chapter 97. The Private Eye.
Noah straightened in his chair. The fog that had been clouding his thoughts all afternoon began to clear, replaced by a sudden and focused attention."You found him. That was fast.""The photograph I took was not ideal, but it was enough to work with." Rebecca crossed the room and set the manila folder down on his desk, aligning it precisely with the edge of the wood in that particular way she had. "I ran the image through facial recognition software and cross-referenced the results with every database I could access. Criminal records, professional licensing boards, social media platforms, even old military records. It took most of the night, but I got a hit around four o'clock this morning."Noah opened the folder. The first thing he saw was a photograph, much clearer than the grainy image Rebecca had shown him in the car. It looked like it had been pulled from a social media account or perhaps an old news article, candid and slightly off-angle. The man in the photograph was round an
Chapter 96. The Second Shadow.
Noah felt a snarl curl his lips.Michael Chen could fucking wait.Michael Chen could go drink piss for all Noah cared right now. The apology that had seemed so important just ten minutes ago, the bridge he had been trying to build, the connection to his parents he had been desperate to maintain, felt laughably insignificant compared to the inferno that was raging inside his chest. He was not going to march down to Michael's office and humbly apologize while Nicole was scheming her way into his company through a back door. He was not going to stand there with his head bowed, asking for forgiveness from a man who had called him a child, while the woman who had thrown him away like garbage was positioning herself to walk these same corridors and sit at these same tables and pretend that she had never told him he was not good enough to stand beside her."Chairman."Rebecca's voice cut through the chaos in his head, quiet and steady and grounding. He turned to look at her, and he saw th
Chapter 95. The Merger.
Smiling, he snapped his fingers, the sound echoing in the open space.“She is the primary head of Nicholson Industries now. Chairman, did you know that detail? She consolidated complete control of the company about six weeks ago, bought out all the remaining shareholders, and made herself the undisputed leader of the entire operation."Noah had not known any of this. He had deliberately and carefully avoided any news about Nicole, any updates about her life or her company or her movements since the divorce. She had made her choice when she stood beside Steven Crestwood and told him he was yesterday's news. He had made his choice when he signed the papers and walked away without looking back. What she did afterward was not his concern and he had not wanted it to be."She has been positioning herself for this merger for months and months," Lucien said. "And Simon, my dear brother, always so eager to please our father, always trying so desperately to prove that he is worthy of the inh
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