The silence that filtered through the hall could only be equal to the cold winter breeze, sending chilling Cole down the spine.
But all through all of this Nicolas was able to maintain a strange calm, one that no one in the hall could comprehend.
The Sales agent soon snapped off the grid her thoughts, her face reddened with so much anger as she advanced towards him.
The posture of her steps seemed as though she was going to rip him apart.
"You Punk. I warned you but you are too stupid to listen." Her voice radiated throughout the hall.
Everyone paused in their steps as all their attention was now focused on Nicolas and the sales agent.
Their stares were one of pity, as they shook their heads for Nicola's sake.
"Poor thing. I am sure that he was only here to check out the new iPhone flagship that was released. Now look at what he has done."
"I am not sure that he is going to be leaving this place any time soon." Another voice stripped into Nicola's ears but he was able to maintain a really cold demeanor around his facial expression.
"Are you even listening to me?" His silence made the sales agent even angrier than she was already.
"Do you realize the cost of what you have done?" She thundered.
A sip of breath escaped from Nicola's nostril as he went ahead to finally say. He stared at the iPhone that was lying on the floor.
The carpeted floor had prevented it from having too many scratches but he could tell that due to the resentment of the sales agents, things were going to be taken to the extreme.
"You don't have to keep yakking. I will purchase both of them." His voice sent another wave of silence through the hall.
Their jaws were all drooped as they could hardly believe the words that he had spat out from his mouth.
"Could it be that he must have made a mistake?"
"I don't think that kid is mentally alright. Just look at his clothes."
"Even if he is, from his dressing, it's way too obvious that he can't even afford even three square meals." More words flooded through the hall but Nicolas did not care even for a single moment.
He paused, his stare all fixed on the young lady who was standing right before him.
Her anger that was already spilling out was way too obvious, her hands clutched and her lips quivering.
"It seems like you have gone mad or you are mad already. What do you think? This place is like some circus to you?" The initial frown that was hanging on her face deepened even more.
"When I am done with you. You are going to regret ever knowing me in your eternal life." She thundered attempting to drag her away but something made her pause
It was the elegant steps that followed suit. So soft and swift that everyone turned towards the sound.
It was the manager of that branch.
"And what's going on here? I have been hearing a lot of noise. And I heard someone saying that he needed to see me?" He inquired with a strange look that could not be predicted on his face.
With a sudden dash, Miss. Evelyn surged towards the scene of the event and finally went ahead to say.
"This punk. He tried to steal from the store but it was too bad for him that I was suspicious of him and I have been watching him closely from behind." She reckoned.
The words exposed him to a swift wave of shock as he was finding it difficult to align her words.
"Steal?" His calm that he had been trying to keep suddenly disappeared as his teeth grated with so much anger.
"How dare you accuse me of something that I know absolutely nothing about?
"I can't believe that you will stoop so low because of your hate. Weren't the ones who wouldn't allow me to get my sales because I was poor.
You accused me of dropping and damaging the cells but I offered to pay for it even though the floors had prevented a scratch and now you are accusing me of stealing." Steams seemed to out from his nostrils as he spoke, his teeth gritted with so much There was nothing he hated most, it was someone accusing him of taking something that didn't belong to him.
No matter how poor he was, he still had hands and could still work to meet his daily needs
Miss. Evelyn turned towards the boss with a weird twitch in her eyes.
"Are you going to believe a word of what he is saying, sir? Just take a really good look at him. He looks like someone that just got off from some piece of trash and he is claiming that he would be able to afford two iPhones?" She shot a deadly glare at Nicolas and that got him even angrier than he was already.
The boss stared at Nicholas and back at his worker. Knowing Evelyn for a while now, he could tell that she had a really bad temper.
But turning over to the young man, first, he seemed way too Young to be able to afford two of that flagship, and apart from that, he was looking more like a piece of junk.
The manager was kept on the fence, thoughts running through his mind as he didn't know what exactly it was that he was going to do this time.
He paused briefly, his heart beating hard against his chest as though it was going to burst through as he finally placed his hands around a decision.
"We should allow him to give it a try. If he isn't able to make the purchase. Then we have every reason to believe that he came here to steal." The boss returned.
Evelyn was stunned as things did not go the way that she wanted it to
But she wasn't the kind of person to give up just yet. Not when she still had air flowing in her lungs.
"Sir? Are you going to listen to a word of what he just said? He should be handed over to the police.
I can tell that they are going to see the credibility of our Story just at a single glance. Letting him go through all these processes is only going to be a waste of time and nothing other than that."
Nicolas was about to say something but she would not allow him to spit out even a single word from his mouth as she quickly chimed in.
"And thinking outside the box. What if he is planning something else? What is the possibility that he doesn't have accomplices and this is all a..." The manager could not bear her words anymore so he quickly raised his hands...
Evelyn's face was clouded with anger but she was still able to push a smile through even in her anger.
"That's enough already Evelyn. I just told you my decision and you should be fine with it.
Now I want you to get over to the office and get the card terminal." He finally said.
Her hefty words seemed to have withered in her lips all of a sudden as she would dare to spit out even a single word from her mouth.
She bowed slightly and soon, her steps swayed off out of the place.
Everyone threw their cells from their pockets to take recordings of the classy moments.
Soon, she came swinging back to the hall with a large card terminal in her hands which she finally dropped on the table.
The manager walked swiftly over to Nicolas and whispered in words that were loud enough for only him to hear.
"I hope you are not trying to pull off a prank or something else. Cause I am going to make sure that you pay for it myself." He muttered under his breath.
But his words were firmly ignored by Nicolas who reached out to his pockets and quickly brought out his card, reaching it out to the manager.
"Here is my card." He sprouted out coldly.
The manager shot a really cold stare at him and snapped the card away from his hands.
Walking over to the machine that was lying right before him, he went through a series of instructions and finally installed the card in the right place.
Everyone waited patiently for what was next and afterwards, there was a loud beep in the hall.
"Card declined." The sound echoed throughout the hall multiple times and Nicola's The silence that filtered through the hall could only be equal to the cold winter breeze, sending chilling Cole down the spine.
But all through all of this Nicolas was able to maintain a strange calm, one that no one in the hall could comprehend.
The Sales agent soon snapped off the grid her thoughts, her face reddened with so much anger as she advanced towards him.
The posture of her steps seemed as though she was going to rip him apart.
"You Punk. I warned you but you are too stupid to listen." Her voice radiated throughout the hall.
Everyone paused in their steps as all their attention was now focused on Nicolas and the sales agent.
Their stares were one of pity, as they shook their heads for Nicola's sake.
"Poor thing. I am sure that he was only here to check out the new iPhone flagship that was released. Now look at what he has done."
"I am not sure that he is going to be leaving this place any time soon." Another voice stripped into Nicola's ears but he was able to maintain a really cold demeanor around his facial expression.
"Are you even listening to me?" His silence made the sales agent even angrier than she was already.
"Do you realize the cost of what you have done?" She thundered.
A sip of breath escaped from Nicola's nostril as he went ahead to finally say. He stared a
t the iPhone that was lying on the floor.
The carpeted floor had prevented it from having too many scratches but he could tell that due to the resentment of the sales agents, things were going to be taken to the extreme.
"You don't have to keep yakking. I will purchase both of them." His voice sent another wave of silence through the hall.
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Chapter 126Agnes called on a Thursday morning.Not a message first.A call.Which meant it was not something she wanted to put in writing before she had spoken to him.Nicholas was between the hostel and the library when his phone rang.He stepped off the main path and picked up."There is something you need to know about," Agnes said.Her voice was in the operational register.Controlled.Not alarmed.But with the particular quality of control that meant she was managing something she had assessed as significant before calling him."Go ahead," Nicholas said."A contact of mine flagged something this morning," she said. "A private investor forum. Members only, reasonably vetted, but not airtight." A pause. "A photograph has been circulating."Nicholas said nothing."The back of someone's head," Agnes said. "In a meeting room. The caption reads: Anyone knows who Mr. K is. Sat across from TerraCycle CEO last month."The campus moved around him.Students on the path.Someone's bag catch
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Chapter 125Mikey called on a Tuesday evening.Not the urgent kind of call.The kind that started with a longer than usual pause before he said anything, which meant he had been deciding whether to make it for a while before he picked up the phone.Nicholas was reading when it came.He marked his page and picked up."Talk," he said."It is not urgent," Mikey said."Okay.""I just wanted to say that before I started," Mikey said. "Because it has been sitting on me for a few days and I did not want you thinking it was a crisis.""It is not a crisis," Nicholas said."No," Mikey said."Go ahead," Nicholas said.Mikey had been talking to people.Not in an official capacity.Not as Mr. K's operations manager or as the property manager of the 5B block.Just as Mikey.As someone who had grown up in the neighborhood and had come back to it and was now operating inside it in a way that gave him access to the kind of conversations that did not happen in formal contexts.Conversations at the mark
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Chapter 124The documents arrived on a Sunday.Nicholas was at his desk working through the post-finals gap in the way he had decided to use it, not as rest exactly, more as the kind of slow productive quiet that came after sustained pressure released.He was reading ahead on next semester's Business Strategy syllabus.Not because he had to.Because it was the kind of thing that felt right in a quiet Sunday with no immediate deadline attached to it.His phone buzzed.Harrison.Not a call.A message.Some documents coming through to your email. No pressure, no timeline. Just want a candid read if you have a moment.Nicholas looked at the message.He opened his email.Three attachments.A company overview.A financial summary.A market position report.The subject line said simply: Logistics - your thoughts.He opened the company overview first.A mid-sized logistics company.Regional operation, primarily serving manufacturers in a three state corridor.Fourteen years in operation.Seco
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Chapter 123She had set the table.That was the first thing Nicholas noticed when he came through the door.Not just food on the counter, not plates pulled out at the last minute.The table was actually set.Two placemats.The good glasses she had found in the apartment when she moved in and had kept on the shelf above the sink without using until now.A small thing in the center of the table that was not quite a centerpiece but was clearly placed with intention, a candle she had not lit and a few sprigs of something green he could not name.Rebecca was at the stove with her back to him."You set the table," he said."Obviously I set the table," she said without turning around. "I am hosting.""You do not usually set the table.""I am choosing to set the table tonight," she said. "Sit down."He sat down.The food was good.He had not been certain it would be.Not because Rebecca could not cook.She had been getting steadily better across the Wednesday lessons, picking things up quickl
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Chapter 122He was halfway back to the hostel when it came.Not at his desk.Not in the quiet of the room before David woke up.On the footpath between the business faculty building and the main path that ran through the center of campus, students moving around him in both directions, bags on shoulders, the particular noise of a corridor of people who had just finished something and were releasing the held breath of it.The colors bled in at the edges of his vision the way they always did.He kept walking for a few steps.Then he stopped.TASK 6: COMPLETEK Foundation - Verified. Endowment: $20,000,000. Independence Criteria: METAssets Retained.Next Directive: Pending - Estimated 2 weeksHe read it once.Students moved around him on both sides.Someone said something to their friend about the extra credit question.Someone else walked past close enough that their bag brushed his arm.The campus went on at its ordinary post-exam volume.Nicholas stood in the middle of it and read the
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Chapter 121The first exam was Monday morning.Financial Accounting.Nicholas was in his seat twelve minutes before the room opened.Not because he was anxious.Because arriving early was part of the fixed block structure he had built and he had decided in October that the structure was not negotiable and he had kept that decision.He sat outside the exam room on the bench in the corridor and did not review his notes.He had reviewed them the night before in the final study block.What was there was there.Looking at it again now would not add anything.He sat and watched the other students arrive and did not think about anything in particular.The paper was distributed at nine.Nicholas read through it once before picking up his pen.That was something Beckham had told the class in the first week of semester.Read the whole paper before you answer anything.Know what you are dealing with before you commit.Nicholas had done it at every exam since.He read through.He picked up his pe
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