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Chapter 362: In Two Weeks
The city was changing.With two weeks left before election day, politics had stopped being something people could ignore. It had moved off the news channels and into the streets, onto the sidewalks, into the conversations happening at restaurant tables and bus stops and grocery checkout lines.Campaign posters covered every available surface. Billboards stretched across major intersections. Some candidates had their faces printed twenty feet tall, looking down at traffic with smiles that had been tested and retested before anyone approved them for print. Volunteers in bright shirts stood on busy corners, handing pamphlets to anyone who would take one. Some of them wore shirts with candidate slogans. Others wore shirts with the candidate's face.On quieter streets, the campaign was less organized but no less visible. Handmade signs stapled to telephone poles. Stickers on lampposts. Chalk messages on sidewalks outside polling locations that hadn't opened yet.Social media was worse. Eve
Chapter 361: Not A Single One
Gray's phone rang.He had been reviewing documents at his desk, a stack of quarterly reports he had been putting off for two days. The sound cut through the quiet of the office and he looked down at the screen.An unknown number.He stared at it for a second. The number wasn't saved. It didn't match any contact in his phone and it wasn't an area code he recognized. There was also no name attached.But the timing. The format. The fact that it came to his personal line and not the office phone. All of it pointed in one direction.His pulse picked up before he could stop it.Across the room, Mara looked up from her screen. She had been working on invoice approvals for the second branch, her focus steady for the past hour. The ringing broke it."Who is it?" she asked.Gray didn't answer. He picked up the phone, pushed his chair back, and stood slowly. His thumb hovered over the screen for a beat. Then he answered. "Hello?""It's us." The voice on the other end was calm and even. No greet
Chapter 360: The Only One Answering
Days had passed without a single word from the two men.No messages. No calls. No confirmation. Gray checked his phone more often than he wanted to admit. Mara sent two follow-ups and received nothing back. The silence was its own kind of pressure, sitting in the back of every conversation and every quiet moment like a clock with no face.The only thing holding them steady was the source. Selina's lawyer had provided these men. If they were the kind of people he trusted with this work, then the work would be done properly. People who operated in silence didn't send progress reports. That was the whole point.Gray told himself that. He told Mara the same thing. And he moved on.---He was walking beside Alistair through one of the largest malls in the city.The place was built for money. Every storefront carried a name that didn't need a sign to be recognized. The floors were polished stone. The lighting was warm and indirect, the kind designed to make expensive things look even more e
Chapter 359: Every Envelope Was A Fuse
Everything had settled.The confrontation with Alistair was behind him. If anything, it had worked in Gray's favor. The guilt of having accused Gray had pushed Alistair closer with little effort. He was now openly telling Gray how much he valued him, how much he trusted him, how grateful he was for his loyalty.Gray let him.Because with just a month left before the election, the final phase of the plan was ready to move. And the first step was simple.Isolate Alistair from every ally he had.Mara sat across from Gray at his desk. Between them, a stack of sealed envelopes sat in a neat row. Each one labeled with a name and an address. Each one contained a printed photograph and a short, unsigned letter.Mara's brow was creased."Are you sure about this?" she asked. "Sending the photos to the people in them? We could hold onto these and release everything at once when the story goes public. The impact would be bigger.""That's not what we need," Gray said."And what if they tell Alista
Chapter 358: Both Men Were Smiling
Alistair didn't answer right away.He stood there and looked at Gray. His eyes narrowed slightly, as though he were turning the question over, checking its edges."You really don't know?" he said.Gray deepened the frown on his face. He kept his weight even, his hands staying visible."You know me, Mayor. I wouldn't ask if I did."Alistair's arms folded across his chest. He watched Gray for another few seconds then he let out a slow breath."I'll be direct with you." "Please go on.""A few days ago, my cleaner found something in my office." Alistair's voice was even and measured. Each word placed deliberately. "A company folder. A confidential one at that. It was on the floor, near the base of one of my cabinets."Gray's pulse hit harder against the inside of his ribs. He tilted his head and let his brow crease further."Under the cabinet?" He leaned forward slightly. "Are you sure?""Yes." Alistair's gaze sharpened. "And you're the only person who was around the area recently."Gray
Chapter 357: Before He Could Answer
The question had been sitting in Gray's head since the moment Alistair walked into the principal's office and looked at him with a smile that didn't reach his eyes.Had he been caught?For the next two hours, while the school event ran its course, Gray watched for the answer in every gesture Alistair made. Every word. Every silence.On the surface, nothing was wrong. They stood side by side for photographs. They spoke to students between sessions. Alistair introduced Gray to a few faculty members with the same smooth manner he used at every public appearance.But the undercurrent had changed.Alistair's voice didn't warm when he said Gray's name. His hand didn't land on Gray's shoulder the way it used to at every event. When they stood together for the photo session, Alistair angled his body a fraction to the right, just enough that it wouldn't show in the shot but enough that Gray could feel the gap between them like a crack in a floor that hadn't been there last week.Every interact
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