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Chapter 25: Aftermath

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The house looked like a war zone.

It looked like a hurricane had ripped through it.

Broken glass on the floor. Cabinet doors wide open. Torn paper scattered like confetti after a funeral. Lena stood barefoot in the middle of it, her hair wild, her chest rising and falling with erratic gasps as if the air itself was choking her. Her eyes darted around, bloodshot, hunting for a ghost that wouldn’t reveal itself.

She was on a rampage, desperately searching, flipping through old documents, yanking open drawers, and throwing things aside. She was looking for something, anything, that could prove Rowan had been working with Echelon Eight. Anything that could explain how her supposedly useless husband had suddenly become some sort of corporate power player.

“There has to be something,” she muttered under her breath, tossing another drawer to the ground. “There has to be some proof. Some file. Something to link him to them.”

She grabbed the desk lamp and slammed it against the wall. Th

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