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For a moment, the tension in the hospital room remained unbroken.Melissa was still standing near the doorway, her eyes fixed on Megan, while Megan remained close to Raymond, watching the unfamiliar woman with growing curiosity. The silence between them was not peaceful. It was filled with questions neither woman had asked and assumptions neither was willing to voice.Raymond seemed to notice the atmosphere before it became unbearable.He looked from Melissa to Megan, then cleared his throat.“Oh,” he said, as though he had only just remembered that an introduction was necessary. “This is Megan.”He gestured toward the woman beside him.“Megan,” he continued, “this is Melissa.”Megan looked at Melissa carefully, waiting for Raymond to explain who she was.Raymond hesitated for a fraction of a second.“Well,” he said, “let me just say that she is my sister. My younger sister, to be precise.”Megan’s eyes widened.Raymond continued before she could interrupt.“We grew up together. We ha
Chapter 427
At that moment, Raymond looked at Megan with a calm but unwavering expression. The anger he had shown earlier was still there, resting beneath the surface, but it was no longer directed at her. It was directed at the people who had caused her fear, the people who had made her believe that silence was safer than justice.“Oh, yes,” Raymond said firmly. “They are definitely going to pay.”Megan looked up at him through her tears.“They will pay for their sins,” he continued. “They will pay for everything they have done—the lies, the intimidation, the abuse of power, and every life they thought they could destroy without consequences.”His voice was low, but every word carried conviction.“They are going to pay,” Raymond repeated. “And if that is the last thing I do, I will make sure of it. They will pay sincerely and severely for everything.”Megan’s eyes filled again.The more Raymond spoke with such certainty, the more the fear she had been holding inside began to spill out. It was no
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For a while, Raymond did not answer Megan’s question.She sat on the hospital bed with her phone still in her hands, staring at him as though she expected him to explain everything—the news, the sudden downfall of Marcus and his family, the political suspension, the accusations spreading across every platform, and the reason he had seemed so certain that David’s father would not be able to escape the consequences this time.But Raymond did not look interested in explaining himself.His face remained serious, and although the anger in his eyes had softened slightly, it had not disappeared. He was still upset with her. He was still disappointed that, after everything David had tried to do, Megan’s first instinct had been to speak about peace, forgiveness, and letting the matter go.At last, Raymond cleared his throat.“Megan,” he said quietly, “you have absolutely nothing to worry about.”She looked at him, still confused.“Yes,” he continued. “What I did is not your concern. You do not
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For a few trembling seconds, Megan simply stared at her phone without really seeing it.The screen had lit up in her hand, bright against the dimness of the hospital room, and the stream of messages, alerts, missed calls, and headlines seemed almost unreal at first. She had expected perhaps a few worried texts, maybe a call from work, maybe some messages from friends asking if she was all right.She had not expected this.Her eyes moved from one notification to another, and with each line she read, her expression changed further. The confusion on her face gave way to disbelief, and then disbelief gave way to outright shock. Her eyes widened so much that for a moment she looked as though she had forgotten to breathe.Because what she was seeing was not just bad news.It was collapse.Total, humiliating, public collapse.David’s father—Marcus—was all over the news.Not in the controlled, polished way he was usually seen by the public, standing behind podiums, smiling into cameras, shaki
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The hospital room was quiet in the kind of way that made every word feel heavier than usual. The lights were dim, the night had stretched deep into itself, and the calm hum of the medical equipment only made the tension between them stand out more sharply. Megan sat on the bed, looking pale and exhausted, her voice still unsteady from everything she had been through. She had spoken from fear, from guilt, and from the desperate need to prevent the situation from growing into something even more dangerous than it already was. In her mind, asking for peace was not an act of betrayal. It was an act of survival. But Raymond did not hear it that way. At that moment, as he stood there looking at her, something in his expression changed. The anger in him was no longer the fierce, explosive kind that rises suddenly and burns itself out in a storm of shouting. It was deeper than that. It had hardened into disappointment, the kind that comes when someone you expected more from says something th
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At that moment, when Marcus heard what Raymond had just said, his jaw tightened so hard that the muscles in his face began to twitch. He could barely believe that Raymond was speaking to him in that manner—so calmly, so fearlessly, and with such absolute disregard for his status. Men did not usually speak to Marcus Chen that way. Even those who disliked him knew how to hide it. Even those who hated him understood the danger of showing it openly. Yet Raymond stood before him as if Marcus were no one important, no one to be feared, no one whose influence had any weight in that room.That was what hurt him most.Not just the disrespect, but the ease of it.It was not even dramatic. Raymond was not shouting. He was not insulting Marcus in the reckless way of someone overcome by anger. No, what made it worse was the quiet certainty in him—the way he spoke as if he had already measured Marcus and found him wanting, as if he had already decided that Marcus no longer mattered and was simply w
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