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Chapter 92: The Call
Chapter 92: The CallCollins called at seven forty three the following morning.Liam was in the kitchen making coffee when the watch pulsed with an incoming call routed through his regular phone, and he looked at the name on the screen and felt the particular satisfaction of a prediction confirmed, which was different from surprise and better than anger and cleaner than either.He let it ring twice before answering.“Collins.”“Liam.” His uncle’s voice carried the careful neutrality of a man who had spent the night recalibrating and had arrived at the reluctant conclusion that cooperation was more valuable than pride. “I’ve been thinking about your offer.”“I assumed you would be,” Liam said.A brief pause. “Gordon is open to selling. I spoke to him last night. He bought the property as an investment and he’s willing to let it go at the right price.”“Three fifty,” Liam said. “That’s still the number.”“He’s asking three seventy five,” Collins said. “The market has moved since I sold
Chapter 91: After Party
Chapter 91: After PartyThe town car pulled into their neighborhood just after six in the evening and Liam could see the lights on inside the house from the street.It gave him a small quiet satisfaction every time he saw it because there had been a version of his life where coming home meant a shelter bunk and fluorescent lights and the particular exhaustion of having nowhere that was actually yours.That version felt like someone else’s biography now.“She’s going to ask questions,” Liam said to Amanda as they walked up to the front door.“I know,” Amanda said. “I’ve had practice lying to parents. Mine took the wilderness survival story without blinking.”“My mother is more perceptive than that.”“Good thing I’m a decent liar,” Amanda said simply.Alice was in the kitchen when they came through the door, and she looked up from the counter where she had been arranging the flowers she had started buying for the house since discovering that she could.<
Chapter 90: Confronting the Past II
Chapter 90: Confronting the Past IIThe room had gone quiet but not for long.Liam felt the attention of aunts and cousins and family friends settle on him with the weight of people who remembered the homeless teenage boy from six months ago and were struggling to reconcile that memory with what was standing in front of them now.His aunt Selene was the first to speak, setting her glass down on the coffee table with the careful movements of someone buying herself time to process what she was seeing. “Liam? Is that really you?”“It’s me,” Liam said.“You look…” She trailed off, her eyes moving over the suit and then back to his face. “Different.”“He looks like he’s trying too hard,” his cousin Bryce said from the couch, loud enough for the room to hear. Bryce had always been Collins’s son in every way that mattered, same instinct for cruelty, same need to establish hierarchy in every room he entered. “What is this, some kind of performance?”Liam glanced
Chapter 89: Confronting the Past
Chapter 89: Confronting the PastThe notice arrived on a Tuesday morning. A group message sent to every branch of the Parker family, announcing that Collins was hosting a gathering at Grandma Parker’s house that Saturday.Liam read it twice. His enhanced Intelligence processed the subtext underneath the cheerful wording and arrived at a simple conclusion.He showed Alice the message thread that evening over dinner.She read it once and set his phone down on the table and looked at him with the expression she used when she had already decided something and was choosing her words carefully.“Don’t go,” she said.“I’m going,” Liam said.“Liam.” She leaned forward slightly. “Those people threw us out. Collins looked your mother in the eye and called her an illegal occupant in her own home. What exactly are you hoping to accomplish by walking back in there?”“I want Dad’s house back,” Liam said simply.Alice was quiet for a moment. “And if Collins refu
Chapter 88: Amanda Returns II
Chapter 88: Amanda Returns IIHe turned his coffee cup slowly in his hands, watching the liquid ripple. He told her about Noah. He told her about the surrender in the arena.The way the boy had looked at him with a calm acceptance that still haunted his dreams. He told her about the promise extracted in the final moments before the light took him.He detailed the search for the group home, the cold efficiency of Carol Jensen, and the three long, silent drives to Seattle. He spoke of the folder of legal documents that had finally moved an immovable wall of bureaucracy.And then, he told her about the cluster of medical nanotechnology that had cost more than the GDP of a small country. He described how it had shimmered like liquid light in his palm, a tiny vial of god-tier science, before he watched it dissolve into the bloodstream of a fourteen-year-old girl.A girl who had spent her entire life negotiating with a body that fought her, now cured by a force she couldn't name.Amanda lis
Chapter 87: Amanda Returns
Chapter 87: Amanda ReturnsAmanda Torres had been dealing with her own return to a reality that now felt paper-thin and hauntingly quiet. Her wealthy parents were relieved she was safe, welcoming her back into their sprawling estate with open arms, but they remained deeply suspicious about where she’d been for those seventy-two hours.The questions were constant, hidden behind polite smiles and expensive dinners.She told them it was a “wilderness survival training program” she had scouted online, and they accepted it—mostly because they didn’t want to look too closely at why their daughter had disappeared without a trace.It was easier for them to believe a lie than to face a truth they couldn't possibly comprehend. They saw the same daughter, but they missed the way she now tracked the exits of every room they entered.The coffee shop Amanda had chosen was the kind of place that existed in every college-adjacent neighborhood, warm lighting and exposed brick and the ambient noise of
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