Jackson Hart: The Student Billionaire

Chapter 269: The Red Eclipse!

The storm had become a living thing.

Red lightning had begun to fork across the blackened clouds, each bolt followed by a low, trembling hum that seemed to echo from the earth itself.

Mr. Copper stood near the glass railing, his coat whipping against his legs from the strange wind leaking through the cracks of the sealed room.

Yvonne Tween clutched a file of trembling papers, her eyes darting between Copper and Whitaker, who stood beside her with his usual mask of composure though the deep line in his face betrayed his concern.

James, Hailey, Andrew, and Nancy huddled near the elevator doors, eyes wide as the strange light flickered across their faces.

“It’s the red eclipse,” Copper said at last, his voice almost drowned by the rising hum. “It has finally begun, and this time around, it's here to unleash its full wrath."

Hailey frowned. “You’re saying this storm… is alive?”

“In a way,” Copper said grimly. “It’s responding to something — or someone.”

He turned toward the storm again,