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356. Ready
Shadows and StillnessThe morning sun poured through the tall windows of Van’s home office, casting long golden beams across the floor. Van stood at the center of the room, buttoning the cuffs of his crisp white shirt while glancing over the reports spread out on his desk. His tie hung around his neck, forgotten for now. The stillness of the house was deceptive. Somewhere, Ivy was gently humming a lullaby to the baby, and the twins were already in the backyard with the nanny, chasing butterflies and screaming with glee.He was due at the office in an hour, but Van’s mind wasn’t on his meetings or even the proposal on his screen. It was on Andrew.For the past few days, a quiet tension had begun to settle in the space between the brothers. Andrew had been evasive, responding to Van’s requests for clarification on some older company files with vague answers or redirecting the topic entirely. It wasn’t like him. Andrew could be blunt and irritable, but he never lied —at least not before.
355. The Edge Of Knowing
Van stood by the wide glass window of his office, a steaming mug of black coffee in hand. The city skyline stretched beyond him —sharp steel and foggy sunlight colliding in a haze of gold. But none of it brought him peace. Not this morning.He had barely slept. Even the quiet warmth of Ivy nestled beside him hadn't eased the pressure building inside his chest. The meeting from yesterday kept playing in his mind, looping with new meaning every time he replayed Andrew’s words.“Don’t dwell on the past, Van. It never leads anywhere good.”It was meant to sound like brotherly advice, but there had been something under it. A flicker in Andrew’s expression, just enough to nudge Van’s instincts awake.Something was off.He turned away from the window and crossed the room to his desk. His assistant had left a folder marked "Private: Internal Review" on top. He opened it quickly, scanning through procurement records, personnel changes, and flagged audits. Nothing seemed particularly suspicious
354. Unknown
Van sat in his office at the top floor of the tower, the windows behind him glowing with the golden wash of late afternoon. His desk was immaculate, save for one photograph —an impromptu snapshot Ivy had taken of him and the twins asleep on the couch. He hadn’t moved it since the day she printed it out and stuck it in a frame.Despite the soft hush of the office, his mind was anything but calm.Andrew.The name alone made Van tighten his jaw. Ever since that family meeting, something hadn’t sat right. Andrew’s curt dismissal of the past, his refusal to even look at Macy properly —it was more than discomfort. It was avoidance. Guilt, perhaps.Van leaned back in his chair, fingers steepled beneath his chin. He had taken over as the CEO for more than three years now. He knew how to read a lie. He’d built a life out of parsing what people said and —more importantly —what they didn’t.A knock on the door pulled him from his thoughts.“Come in,” he said, straightening as his assistant stepp
353. Everest Secrets
Van leaned back in his office chair, the early morning light filtering through the floor to ceiling windows of the high rise building that housed the headquarters of his company. A thick folder sat open on his desk, pages of legal documents and board memos half read. The city below bustled with energy, but Van found his mind wandering. His thoughts weren’t on mergers, reports, or strategy. They kept drifting back home —to Ivy, their children, and the small, steady rhythm of domestic life he’d come to cherish."Sir?" A member of staff, Mara, peeked in, holding a tablet. "Boardroom is ready. Everyone’s waiting."Van sat up straight, nodding. "Thank you, Mara. I’ll be there in two minutes."He gathered the folder, took one last glance at the photo on his desk— a candid shot of Ivy and the twins chasing each other in the backyard— and sighed softly. He missed them already, and the day had only begun.The board meeting was long, spiced up with tension. Andrew sat across from Van, arms fold
352. Pieces Of The Truth
Van leaned back in the leather chair in his private office, the skyline of the city stretching beyond the floor to ceiling windows behind him. The early morning sun bled over the buildings, casting sharp lines of light across the desk cluttered with reports, confidential files, and an untouched cup of espresso. The air was thick with the scent of ink, paper, and quiet tension.The recent shareholders’ meeting had gone smoothly, too smoothly. Van had been in this business long enough to know when silence meant trouble. And ever since his father’s name had come up in that bizarre, fragmented dossier Isadora had found during their time in Cuba, he had been thinking more and more about the past. Now, he sat surrounded by information pulled from both private investigators and company archives —names, dates, signatures— some of which included his brother Andrew.Van’s jaw tightened.There was a soft knock on the door.“Come in,” he said, already knowing it was Cynthia, his executive secreta
351. Brothers Stand Off
The hallway outside Van's office had a particular silence that day —a muffled kind of quiet, heavy with tension. He’d become good at recognizing that kind of silence. It meant someone was trying not to be heard. Or worse, someone was already listening.Van leaned back in his chair, fingers steepled, eyes fixed on the ceiling. The morning had started like any other —coffee on his desk, a stack of reports from the operations team, a gentle kiss from Ivy before he left home —but something had been bothering him since last week.The unsigned document.He pulled the file from his drawer again. It was a routine acquisition proposal —an old real estate property the company planned to convert into a technology hub. Everything seemed in order. Legal had stamped it, finance had approved it, even the board had given a soft greenlight. But the document bore Andrew’s initials. Only… Andrew hadn’t been at the board meeting when that vote was passed.Van had checked.And Andrew didn’t know he knew t
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