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Chapter 16: part-2
“It is.” Ethan put his hands in his pockets and stood still.“No. Absolutely not. Whatever is going on with you, we can fix it. I will give you a raise. I will give you whatever title you want. Name your number, Ethan.” Victoria tossed the letter onto her desk and stepped toward him, her jaw set firm.“Victoria, your father made a promise to every employee who reaches twenty years with this company. I am at seventeen. Three more years and I vest into equity worth at least five million dollars. I remember the promise clearly.” Ethan nodded slowly.“Then you know what you are walking away from. Five million dollars, Ethan. My father built that promise for people exactly like you. People who gave their lives to this company. Stay three more years and it is yours.” Victoria held up three fingers, her voice carrying the weight of genuine concern.“I do not need it anymore.” Ethan said it quietly and without any trace of arrogance. He walked past her to the floor to ceiling window and looke
Chapter 16: The Resignation part-1
The receptionist at Titanium Network looked up from her computer and froze. The man walking through the glass doors was six foot one, broad shouldered, wearing a suit that cost more than her car, and moving with the kind of quiet authority that made the entire lobby feel smaller."Good morning. Do you have an appointment, sir?" Megan tilted her head, her fingers hovering above the keyboard."Megan, it's me. Ethan." He stopped in front of her desk and waited.Megan's lips parted. She pushed her chair back, stood up, and walked around the desk. She circled him once, then again, her heels clicking slow on the tile, her eyes running over him like she was inspecting a painting she had seen a thousand times that had suddenly changed colors overnight."No way. There is no way this is you." Megan stopped in front of him and pressed her hand against her chest. "Ethan Moore. The same Ethan Moore who wore the same gray jacket every Monday for three years.""The very same." Ethan gave her a small
Chapter 15: The Eye part-1
Amber returned from the back office holding a receipt with both hands like it was made of glass. The membership deposit had cleared. Ethan's phone buzzed twice in his pocket and he already knew what it meant before he looked.One hundred million dollars. The number sat on his screen like a door that had just opened into a room he had never been allowed to enter.The system's voice filled his mind, calm and clear. *Milestone reached. One hundred million dollars total balance. One time reward unlocked. Choose one.*Four options arranged themselves in his thoughts like printed cards laid out on a table. Ten additional years of natural lifespan. One billion dollars in direct cash deposit. Permanent doubling of physical attractiveness to the opposite sex. Or something called the Eye of Insight, the ability to see through any person within ten meters, reading their potential, their loyalty, and their core skills.Ethan stood at the counter and moved through the choices the way a man moves t
Chapter 14: part-2
“Hey, Lily, listen. About before. That was just me being stupid, okay? I was angry and hurting and I took it out on you. It was a joke. A bad one. Come here, let me look at where I got you.” Derek walked over with his palms up, his voice dropping into something gentle that did not fit his swollen face at all.Lily looked at him for half a second and then took his arm with a smile. “It is fine, Uncle Derek. It does not even hurt anymore.”“Let me rub it. I feel terrible.” Derek put his arm around her shoulder and guided her back to the bed, playing the caring uncle like he had not been standing over her body sixty seconds ago.Margaret watched the scene and nodded with deep satisfaction. “Good. This is good. Now we are all on the same page.”“Nobody tells Ethan. Nobody even hints at it. As far as that fool knows, Lily is his daughter and he owes her everything.” Claire looked at each of them in turn, her eyes cold and final. “We take his apartment, his car, his savings, and his monthly
Chapter 14: The Secret part-1
Claire knelt down and pulled Lily off the carpet by her arms. She brushed the hair from her daughter's face, wiped the tears with her thumb, and guided her to the edge of the bed. Then she turned around and looked at her mother and brother with the kind of stillness that made both of them stop breathing. "Lily is not Ethan's daughter." Claire said each word separately, placing them into the room like stones dropped into still water. Margaret's hand went to her mouth. Derek froze with the ice bag halfway to his face. Lily looked up from the bed with wet eyes and a confused frown. "What did you just say?" Margaret whispered it through her fingers. "You heard me. Ethan is not her biological father. He never was." Claire folded her arms across her chest, her face showing nothing at all. Derek lowered the ice and squinted at his sister with his one good eye. "You are making this up. You are saying this so I feel bad about hitting her." "Look at my face, Derek. Do I look like I am jok
Chapter 13: part-2
Derek pulled the ice away from his eye and looked at his sister. “Child support for Lily? Claire, Lily is not even his kid. You told us that years ago.”“Ethan does not know that. And as long as he does not know, the court gives me whatever I ask for. A man who makes what Ethan makes will be paying me fifteen thousand a month minimum for a child he thinks is his.” Claire’s voice was smooth and calm, the voice of someone who had been running these numbers in her head for longer than tonight.“That is brilliant.” Margaret clapped her hands together once. “We bleed him dry. We take the apartment, the car, the savings, and then we take monthly payments on top of it. By the time we are finished with him he will be sleeping in his office.”“He deserves worse than that. He deserves to be out on the street like the worthless dog he is.” Derek pressed the ice back against his face and smiled with the half of his mouth that still worked.The three of them leaned in together over the desk, their
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