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Chapter 114
The proposal arrived just after noon, packaged in neutral fonts and careful language, as though restraint itself were proof of goodwill. Leon opened it first, standing at the kitchen counter, scrolling once before his jaw tightened. He did not comment. He simply handed the tablet to Mia and waited.Mia read slowly.The document was titled Strategic Media Alignment Framework. It outlined a structured plan for the coming months: controlled interviews with select publications, a single long-form profile to “humanize the transition,” and strict silence around what it termed internal family dynamics. There were suggested phrases, approved adjectives, and entire paragraphs written in advance, ready to be repeated verbatim.She reached the section labeled Health Narrative and felt something inside her still.The language was gentle, almost flattering.Mia Blackwood will be positioned as resilient but delicate, prioritizing wellness and privacy during a sensitive phase.She continued reading,
Chapter 113
After the announcement, things felt unnaturally still... but not for too long.Outside the hospital, the press had already dispersed, and the corridors no longer buzzed with whispers. But inside Leon and Mia’s temporary residence, a quiet apartment arranged by the director for privacy, there was a sense of something unseen, moving, spreading.By the second day, things were in upheaval once again. A headline on one of the country’s most polished media platforms read:“Blackwood Heir and Quinn Heiress Relocate Abroad Amid Personal Turmoil.”The article’s tone was deceptively polite, almost clinical. It framed their move as “a period of private recovery after recent medical misunderstandings.” But the subtext was acidic.Words like “instability,” “unresolved family tension,” and “privacy enforced under duress” threaded the piece with quiet venom.By afternoon, social media was crawling with fragments—screenshots, quotes, whispers. Anonymous “sources” spoke about a rift between the Quinn
Chapter 112
The announcement was delivered without any preparation or ceremony.Leon chose a neutral evening, after dinner, when the house was quiet enough that no one could claim surprise or emotional ambush. The Quinn family gathered in the sitting room with the expectation of another tense discussion, another attempt at repair or explanation. They were wrong.Leon stood beside Mia, not touching her, but close enough that the alignment was unmistakable. Mia spoke first, her voice steady and unembellished.“We will be relocating abroad,” she said. “This will be for work and for medical treatment. The arrangements are already in motion.”The room reacted before anyone spoke.Clara’s posture stiffened immediately, as if a string had been pulled taut down her spine. One of the aunts inhaled sharply, already preparing a response. Another exchanged a look that carried both calculation and alarm.“Relocating?” Clara repeated. “You mean leaving.”“We mean moving,” Mia replied calmly. “There is a differ
Chapter 111
Mia was passing in front of the lounge when she heard the word... making her so lost that she didn't even bother to recognise the voices.“Defective.”It slipped through the partially open door of the relatives’ lounge like a blade, soft but precise. She had been walking back from the restroom with a nurse when the murmur reached her, followed by the familiar cadence of her aunts’ voices. Lowered, conspiratorial. The kind of tone reserved for judgments that believed themselves justified.She stopped.The nurse paused instinctively, then glanced at Mia with quiet concern. “Mrs. Blackwood, do you want me to—”“No,” Mia said calmly. Her voice surprised even herself. It was steady, clear. “It’s fine.”She did not move closer. She did not strain to hear more. She did not need to.The word had already done its work.For a brief moment, something old stirred in her chest. The reflex to shrink. To doubt. To let the room tilt and decide that maybe they were right, maybe she was something that
Chapter 110
Clara learned the truth the way she learned most things now—indirectly, through fractured conversations and half-controlled channels that no longer bent immediately to her will.The pregnancy scandal collapsed quietly but completely.There was no dramatic retraction, no public apology, no moment where someone gathered the family and announced the error with the weight it deserved. Instead, the story simply… unraveled. Doctors stopped speaking in hushed urgency. Nurses moved without the nervous glances Clara had grown used to. The whispers shifted tone, from alarm to discomfort.The power she had wielded hours earlier no longer found purchase.Her authority weakened.Her resentment sharpened.The aunts gathered in a private lounge two floors below Mia’s room, their voices overlapping in agitation. Confusion came first, followed swiftly by anger. Not the clean anger of people wronged, but the defensive anger of people embarrassed.One aunt slammed her purse onto the table. “So the hospi
Chapter 109
The senior doctor did not leave with the others. Instead, he pulled a chair closer to the foot of the bed and sat, folding his hands as though he were preparing for a conversation rather than delivering a verdict.“Now that the immediate confusion has been cleared,” he said, “we should discuss the treatment itself.”Mia straightened slightly against the pillows. Her relief had not faded, but it had settled into something cautious. She had learned quickly that answers often came paired with new questions.Leon remained standing, his attention fully on the doctor.“The condition you have,” the doctor continued, “requires specialized genetic-hormonal therapy. It is not something we can manage effectively with standard medication or short-term intervention.”Mia frowned. “What does that mean, exactly?”“It means,” the doctor said carefully, “that treatment involves long-term hormonal regulation combined with genetic modulation. The protocols are highly specific. They require facilities eq
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