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Chapter 373: Blessings
Gray finally told her in the car.Not in any way he'd planned. Daniel was pulling onto the highway toward Nine Seas District and Selina was scrolling through messages on her phone when he said it."I want to ask your grandfather for his blessing."Selina's thumb stopped mid-scroll. She looked at him. Then she looked at him longer, like she was checking whether he'd said what she thought he said."Today? Tell me you're joking" she said."Right now."She put her phone in her lap. Her lips pressed together, but the corners were pulling, fighting something she couldn't keep down. She turned toward the window."Well then" she said. Quiet. Almost nothing to it.But her reflection in the glass was smiling so hard her eyes were nearly shut.Everett Tower caught the late afternoon sun across its top floors. The lobby was the way Gray remembered it from that first visit. Marble floors. High ceilings. Security that recognized Selina before she reached the desk.They took the private elevator. Se
Chapter 372: Track Her
Gray couldn't help but stand in his bedroom, lost in thought.Suddenly he opened his eyes and sat on the bed."System," he said.The chime came immediately. The holographic blue screen materialized in the air in front of him.[How can the system assist the host?]"I need a location. A person. Right now."[Specify target.]"Mara Smith. She was taken approximately one hour ago. I need her exact position."[Processing request.]The screen flickered. Numbers ran across it. A map began forming, zooming in on the city, narrowing from district to block to street.[Target Location identified.][Industrial district. Warehouse complex. Building 4C, north end.][Distance from host: 23 minutes by car.]"Cost?" Gray asked. His voice was flat.[Location tracking: $30,000.]He didn't blink. "Pay it."[$30,000 deducted.]The map stayed on screen. A red dot pulsed on a building near the waterfront. Gray memorized the street name, the cross streets, the shape of the complex."One more thing," he said.
Chapter 371: Don't Look for Me
Mara left the office at six.She told Gray she had errands to run who jn turn nodded without looking up from his laptop. She grabbed her bag, checked her phone, and walked out. The door clicked shut behind her.She made it two blocks.The street was busy with evening foot traffic. People leaving offices, cars idling at intersections, a food cart on the corner sending the smell of grilled meat into the cooling air. Mara walked quickly, her bag over one shoulder, her phone in her hand. She was composing a message she kept deleting and restarting.She had decided tonight she was going to tell Gray everything. No more "after." No more waiting for the right moment. The election was over and Alistair was in custody. There was no reason left to hold it.She was three sentences into the message when a black car pulled to the curb beside her.The rear door opened and two huge men rushed out.One of them took her bag. The other took her arm. She didn't scream. She opened her mouth and the first
Chapter 370: Trending
Gray couldn't sleep that night.He got home past midnight. Eli had fallen asleep in the car on the way back, head against the window, his hand still holding the cuff of Gray's jacket. Gray carried him inside and laid him on his bed without waking him. Lily was already asleep. He sat on the edge of his own bed and stared at the wall. His phone was on the nightstand, buzzing in steady intervals. He didn't pick it up. He stayed there until the sky outside the window started changing color, then he got up and made coffee.By morning, the city had split open.Every news channel was running the story. As an entire broadcast. Anchors sat behind desks and narrated footage from the venue, the arrest, the broadcast, the testimony. They played clips of Benjamin Crowe's report. They played clips of Alistair's rant about Cedric Ventura. They played clips of Eli standing at the microphone in his short-sleeved shirt, speaking in a voice so quiet the boom operator had to adjust mid-sentence.They pl
Chapter 369: If I'm Going Down
Alistair laughed.It started low in his chest and climbed until it filled the microphones and the speakers and every corner of the room.People in the front row leaned back.Alistair braced both hands on the podium. His shoulders shaking, head dropped between his arms. The laughter kept coming, louder now, spilling over itself, the sound of a man who had reached his end.Then he lifted his head.His eyes were wet from pressure. The face behind the laughter was stripped down to bone."You want the truth?" he said.His voice came through the speakers ragged and unsteady. He wasn't performing anymore. The part of him that knew how to perform had burned out somewhere between Gray's question and Eli's testimony and the silence that followed."You want to know what politics looks like?" He straightened up behind the podium. His hand swept across the room. "You think I'm the only one?"Someone in the crowd shifted. A murmur started near the back and died before it reached the front."Cedric
Chapter 368: Am I Your Enemy Too?
Gray walked to the podium with a sense of victory in his steps.He walked at the same pace he had used to cross the main hall, steady and unhurried, as though he were walking to deliver a speech he had prepared weeks ago.Alistair saw him coming.He was still standing behind the microphones, one hand resting on the podium, the other holding his phone. His mouth had been open mid-sentence, still pushing back against the broadcast, still telling the room that what they were seeing was a coordinated attack by his enemies.He stopped talking when Gray stepped onto the stage.For a moment, neither of them moved. The screens behind them were still showing documents. Benjamin Crowe's voice was still coming through the speakers, measured and relentless, narrating each new piece of evidence as it appeared. The crowd below the stage had gone completely still. Phones were raised. Cameras were rolling. Every eye in the room was pointed at the two men standing five feet apart on a platform that ha
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