2026-04-30 11:58:45Astral Corp was one of the largest company buildings in the city. It was the headquarters which had different conglomerates reporting to it and had different segments which were all thriving well with Logan's family at the center of it all, managing every aspect.
Logan was really pissed at the old man's request. For many years, he had been avoiding his family, especially his father, and now Alfred was making him go there. He knew the old man's tricks but he didn't have much of a choice. It's for his dear Mia after all.
He went into Mia's room to check on her and Ava. He saw Ava holding their daughter’s hand, fighting back tears.
He couldn't remember when his daughter opened her eyes last, or the last time they were all happy as one family.
Logan wanted to go to them, to comfort Ava and tell her everything would be fine. But the image of her yelling at him earlier flashed in his head and he stepped back. Without saying a word, he left the room.
“I know you said tomorrow, Alfred. But I can't wait. It has to be today.” He whispered to himself as he brought out his phone to leave him a text. Then he headed for Astral Corp.
It took him nearly two hours to get there before he finally arrived at his family's humongous tower.
To avoid being seen by people or anyone who would recognise him, he brought out a dusty and rumpled old cap from his pocket that paired with his cleaning uniform. Thanks to his appearance, no one bothered to look his way as they thought he was a cleaner.
He walked towards one of the twenty receptionists who were lined up horizontally behind a very long wooden mahogany table, few of them attending to guests. Astral Corp headquarters usually had about 1000 people per day always visiting so the company ensured that no one was kept waiting.
"Good morning, I'm here on a classified visit with the CEO." Logan said to the male receptionist.
The people present who heard him threw glances at him. Classified visit… with the CEO of all people? Looking like that? Yeah, right.
“Uhh, Good morning…” The receptionist managed to respond before asking, “Do you have an appointment with him?" He then looked at Logan, properly this time. When he saw how poor and dirty Logan was looking in his uniform and cap, he scrunched his nose up in disgust. "I'm sorry, but the CEO doesn't meet with just anyone, let alone someone like you."
Logan scoffed, he was expecting this kind of treatment, that's why he came prepared. He brought out a small card which had an exquisite black and gold design.
The card had the Astral Corp logo on it. It was for prominent members of the Mitchell family. Only five of them existed and one belonged to Logan, it was a ticket to endless opportunities. He had the card on him at all times, hoping he never needed to use it. But fate said otherwise.
"What about this?" He showed it to the receptionist.
When the man saw it, his eyes flew wide as they darted between the card and the person holding it. He lowered his head then smiled politely, "I'm so sorry, Sir. Please give me a moment to inform his secretary of your arrival." He said with a little bow, quickly making a call to the upper floor.
Logan waited calmly, he went over his conversation with Alfred in his head, wondering what the task was that he needed to fulfill. However, his thoughts were interrupted by a commotion that erupted suddenly behind him. He turned around and his eyes widened at the set of people he saw.
Logan took a long, hard look at the people he saw. They were pleading softly with the female receptionist to let them meet with the CEO.
The people were none other than Leslie Cooper, Ava's mother… His mother in-law. And beside her was Stacy Cooper, Ava's younger sister, his entitled sister-in-law.
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Chapter 367: The Funding Line Goes Dark
The funding line went dark by morning."Confirmed closed," Alfred said. "And that was the last of the major arteries. Everything they used to fund the operation against you is either severed or frozen now.""They still have resources," Logan said."They do," Alfred said. "But not the easy, deniable kind. Everything left is traceable, slower, harder to move without exposure.""That is a real shift," Logan said."It is," Alfred said. "The infrastructure that made all of this possible is gone."Logan used the improved position to push several long horizon projects forward at once. The commercial frameworks around the channels expanded further, new agreements built for years rather than months. Protected development pathways for Micro Dash advanced steadily, the engineers still working undisturbed under the deeper cover Alfred had maintained for weeks.And slowly, underneath all of it, family life inside the new residence continued its own quiet normalization.Ava returned to a fuller sc
Chapter 366: The Final Thread
The new residence became fully operational within the week, and the protective routines recalibrated around a longer horizon, no longer built for crisis but for years of ordinary life underneath extraordinary security.Logan began spending controlled portions of his days on ordinary executive work again, visible in limited ways at Springlife and across the channel operations for the first time in months."How does it feel," Ava asked, watching him prepare for his first in person site visit since everything began."Strange," Logan said. "Good strange."The city's major players adjusted quickly to the new normal, meetings resuming with a steadiness that would have seemed impossible weeks earlier.Roman delivered an update that confirmed the shift was more than surface deep."Carlisle formally stepped back from two of his more confrontational committees," Roman said. "Graceful on the surface. Final underneath.""He knows it is over," Logan said."He knows," Roman said. "Whether he says i
Chapter 365: The Honesty of Crayons
The move began in phases, exactly the way Scott had planned it."Three separate transfers over four days," Scott said. "No single moment where everything is exposed at once.""Same discipline as every extraction we have run," Logan said."Same discipline," Scott said. "Just slower, because this time nobody is running from anything. We can afford to be careful instead of fast."The household settled into the new residence gradually, room by room, the empty halls filling with the ordinary weight of a family actually living somewhere instead of hiding.Victor stayed with them for a limited stretch before his medical team required his return to the secure recovery location, and for those few days the house held something Logan had not expected to feel so strongly.Three generations under one roof.Logan watched Victor sit at the kitchen table each morning, watched Mia climb into the chair beside him without hesitation, watched Ava move easily between the two of them like the arrangement
Chapter 364: Three Generations Under One Roof
The disrupted mapping attempt led to something new, a short exchange between the two counsel teams that felt closer to coordination than anything before it."They reached out first," Alfred said. "Confirming the same pressure hit both sides at the same time. Nothing formal. Just an acknowledgment.""That we are under fire from the same source," Logan said.The new residence reached initial operational readiness that same week, and Logan walked it with Ava and Mia under full security."This one," she said. "This is my room.""You are sure," Logan said, smiling."I am sure," Mia said, already pointing at the far wall. "All my drawings go there. In order. Starting with the first castle.""We will hang every one," Ava said."The move is scheduled," Scott confirmed later that day. "Everything checks out. We can begin transition within the week."That evening, under maximum cover, Victor arrived at the current safe location.Logan met him at the door, and for a moment neither man said anyt
Chapter 363: The Deliberate Restraint
Logan kept the reply formal, matching what the young man had sent.Offer rejection acknowledged. Notification protocol remains open on my end.He read it once before sending, resisting the pull to add anything more. The restraint felt deliberate on both sides now, an unspoken agreement that whatever this was becoming, it would not be rushed by either party."No personal content added," Alfred confirmed, reviewing the exchange. "Matches his tone exactly.""That is the point," Logan said. "We let the trust build at its own pace, not ours."Construction on the new residence began that week under tight compartmentalization, each contractor working with only the piece of the plan they needed to see."Nobody outside the core team has the full layout," Scott said. "Standard practice, but I am running it stricter than usual given everything happening.""Good," Logan said. "I would rather move slower and stay invisible than move fast and leave a trail."Parallel to the construction, the instit
Chapter 362: The Unprompted Message
The surveillance attempt traced back quickly to a cut out Scott's team had already half mapped weeks earlier."Confirmed," Scott said. "Same network, different node. We removed it clean, no noise.""They have not accepted the ruling yet," Logan said."Doesn't look like it," Scott said. "This reads like probing, not retreat.""Then we keep treating every quiet week as temporary," Logan said. "Because apparently it is."Victor reached a milestone that week that shifted the shape of everything ahead."Medical clearance for limited travel," Alfred reported. "Under extreme security, but real travel."Logan called his father directly once the news settled."They are saying I could actually see you," Victor said. "In person, not a screen.""How does that sit with you," Logan said."Heavier than I expected," Victor said. "I have imagined it so many times it almost does not feel real that it might actually happen now.""We will plan it carefully," Logan said. "Controlled reunion, full security
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