2026-04-30 12:01:41Logan shoved the suitcase into Francis’ hands, "Take it back, you asshole. You might have fooled everyone but I know you as the snake that you are. Lusting over my wife since the day you set eyes on her. You think I'll allow that to happen?" He grabbed the man by the collar again and dragged him towards the elevator. "Now, get lost."
Francis let out an amused chuckle. He straightened himself and pulled Logan into the elevator and whispered in his ear, “Haha, you got me. But guess what, I'm not going to stop, I'm gonna sleep with your wife and make her leave you. Just watch, you bastard.” He pushed Logan out of the elevator and the doors closed.
Logan breathed heavily as rage built up inside him… Imagine being that cocky.
He straightened himself before turning back towards Mia's room. As he slowly approached Ava, part of him wished that she didn't realize…that she didn't know what Francis was after. Because why would she accept any help from him if she knew his agenda? He prayed within himself and hoped that Ava wasn't already swayed by Francis.
"Logan, where did you get that money?” Ava looked at her husband with a panicked and worried gaze. "Did you steal it from somewhere?" She asked as disbelief clouded her eyes. "I know things are tough for us but that shouldn't let you result in stealing!"
She paused for a bit and sucked in a breath, then her eyes widened, "Oh my God, oh my God! Logan, please don't tell me you borrowed the money. The bank wouldn't lend you such a big amount with your yearly income. Don't tell me you sought loan sharks…”
Logan couldn't believe what Ava was saying. How could she say such a thing to him? Did she really think the worst of him? Did she think he couldn't get the money through legal means? Seeing how his wife was treating him like a criminal while she was praising Francis Lee just a few brought pain to his heart.
"I'm talking to you, Logan. Answer me!" She began to tear up as she pointed accusingly at him. "How could you do such a thing, Logan? I thought you were sensible! How do you expect us to pay back the loan you took? You know how dangerous that is! You're putting Mia in more danger."
Logan looked at how Ava was trembling in fear, thinking he had done something reckless. He couldn't take it anymore, it was time he told his wife about the truth and how wealthy he was. It wouldn't be fair to her and his daughter to be suffering when he was now the official heir to a multi-trillion empire.
He steadied her shoulders, “Hey… My love, calm down-”
Slap!Logan stiffened, he couldn't believe what just happened, did Ava just slap him across the face? He looked at her with his eyes wide."Never in your pitiful excuse of a life tell me to calm down.” Ava warned, her face carried no remorse for hitting him. “Do you know what you’ve done? You're telling me to calm down when you just put a target on our back?" The hate coming from her was real and unfiltered, "Not only do I need to take care of my daughter and this sorry excuse of a husband, I now have to take care of the money you borrowed from these loan sharks. Do you not know how high their interest rate is? Once you borrow from them, they'll make you indebted to them for the rest of your life.”
Logan was really stunned by Ava's actions. He touched the side of his face that was now visibly red, thanks to Ava's slap. The pain stung but not as much as her words did. He didn't know when she started seeing him this way…Pathetic, senseless, a burden. When did she start to hate him? Why had he not noticed it? Was it always there? Did she really see him as a silly excuse for a husband?
He couldn't help but wonder if there were any signs that he missed… That's when it hit him. Ava began to grow distant from him a month after she started working directly with Francis Lee. That awful man had made her grow tired of Logan, seeing him as a lost cause.
Logan looked at her, really looked at her, "Ava, do you hate me?"
Ava was taken aback by this question, it even got her wondering… Did she really hate him? Ava wasn't a violent person by nature, she rarely shouted or got angry. But now, seeing how easy it was for her to hit him, and worse, didn't have any regrets after…
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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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