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Chapter 337: Corinne Achebe
The background work on the candidate kept turning up pieces that looked clean on the surface."Excellent education," Alfred said. "No scandals anywhere in his record. Financial support that reads as philanthropic if you do not look too hard.""And if you do look hard," Logan said."Then the intermediaries start showing patterns," Alfred said. "Nothing obvious, but nothing that looks accidental either.""Assume all of it is constructed," Logan said. "Every clean detail. Somebody built this life on purpose.""That is how we are treating it," Alfred said.By that evening the secondary network inside New Horizon was fully dismantled. Scott delivered the final report himself."All eight are out of play," Scott said. "Legal pressure took three of them. Financial disruption handled two more. The rest we relocated under controlled conditions.""No noise," Logan said."None," Scott said. "The local board is cleaner right now than it has been since the capital faction first made a move again
Chapter 336: The Candidate's Profile
The phrase kept turning over in Logan's mind while Alfred's teams worked through the night."We have a candidate," Alfred said the next morning. "Cross referenced everything we could pull.""Who," Logan said."A young man," Alfred said. "Early twenties. Living under a different surname in a secondary city. Educational and financial support traces back through intermediaries connected to the opposing families.""How strong is the match to the photograph," Logan said."Strong," Alfred said. "Not definitive yet, but strong."Logan studied the file on the screen, the young man's face pulled from public records, and felt something cold settle in his chest."No approach," Logan said. "Not yet. I want deeper background first. Full discretion, nobody outside this room knows we have a name.""Understood," Alfred said. "We keep digging quiet."In New Horizon the political noise had settled into something that felt more like a held breath than actual peace, and Roman made sure Logan understood
Chapter 335: The Other Mitchell
The full picture of the network came in by morning, and it was bigger than anyone expected."Eight individuals," Scott said. "Most with clean local histories. Nothing that would ever draw attention on its own.""But……," Logan said."But every one of them is taking instructions from the same capital linked cut out," Scott said. "Different jobs, different lives, same source feeding them.""Then we take it apart," Logan said. "Quiet, coordinated. Forty eight hours.""That is tight," Scott said."It needs to be," Logan said. "The longer this sits, the more they learn about us.""My teams are ready," Scott said. "We start tonight."Victor's medical team moved him to a more permanent secure location that afternoon, and Alfred confirmed it personally."New location is solid," Alfred said. "Better protected than the last one. He is comfortable.""Good," Logan said. "Keep the address need to know only.""Already handled," Alfred said.The documents from the north study kept giving up more t
Chapter 334: The Hidden Network
Alfred came through with the first real update on the photograph. We "We narrowed it," he said. "Three candidate families with close but quiet ties to the other side during the original conflict.""Confirmed," Logan said."Not yet," Alfred said. "Close ties, discreet. Nothing solid enough to act on.""Then we do not act on it," Logan said."You want me to keep pushing," Alfred said."Push quietly," Logan said. "No direct approach until it is confirmed. I will not move on a guess.""Understood," Alfred said.Later that day a financial journalist known for careful work published a piece that laid out the scale of the import channel control and Springlife's backing without turning it into a spectacle.Scott brought it to Logan's attention."It is accurate," Scott said. "Uncomfortably accurate. No sensationalism, just facts laid out clean.""That is worse for some people than sensationalism," Logan said."Already seeing it," Scott said. "A few fence sitters in the city are recalculating
Chapter 333: The Courier's Route
The photograph came back degraded but usable enough to work with."Facial recognition is running," Alfred said. "Timeline reconstruction too. It will take a while.""Treat it as important," Logan said. "Not urgent. We do not chase this one fast.""Understood," Alfred said. "Consolidation stays the priority."Logan spent the day on exactly that. He sat with the legal team going through the import channels line by line, tightening every gap that could be used against them later."If they try to seize any part of this again," Logan said, "I want it to cost them more than it is worth.""We are restructuring the ownership layers now," the lawyer said. "Springlife too. Anything tied to the family name gets buried under enough paperwork to slow a raid down for months.""Do it faster if you can," Logan said."We are already moving faster than normal," the lawyer said.Late in the afternoon Roman asked for a private meeting, and Logan agreed without asking why over the phone.They met in a
Chapter 332: The Second Heir
The phrase sat on the screen like it was still moving."Second heir," Alfred said over the line. "You see what that means.""I see it," Logan said. "I do not like what I see.""The documents point to a contingency," Alfred said. "Back during the original conflict, the opposing families protected or hid a bloodline. Someone with a claim they could use if the Mitchell line got hard to control or if it got removed.""So this was never just about breaking me or my father," Logan said."No," Alfred said. "It was about managing who comes after. On their terms."Logan sat with that for a long moment."How much do we actually know," he said."Not enough," Alfred said. "The file is incomplete. We have the fact, not the name.""Keep digging," Logan said. "I need the name."Ava came in partway through and Logan waved her over and let her read the file for herself.She read it twice."They planned this far ahead," she said. "This is not a threat that came together last week.""No," Logan said. "I
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