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Chapter 13
Rohen arrived at Avalon Grand Tower before sunrise.The building still belonged to the quiet hour between night and morning, when even the cleaning staff had finished their rounds and the corridors held only the low hum of ventilation systems and distant elevator motors. The city outside the glass walls was just beginning to pale, the horizon turning from black to a thin line of silver.He preferred this hour.No interruptions. No witnesses.The private elevator opened directly into his office. Rohen stepped inside, removed his jacket, and set it over the back of the chair before activating the wall of monitors embedded into the far side of the room.A grid of data came alive across the screens.Communications logs. Transaction flows. Encrypted message routing. Avalon Holdings had dozens of subsidiaries, shell acquisitions, and intermediary firms moving quietly through the global financial system. The takeover attempt he had begun months earlier depended on that complexity remaining i
The Architect’s Daughter
Lira arrived at Avalon Grand Tower at eight in the morning with her portfolio under her arm and the contract folded in her jacket pocket. She’d read it four times the night before, certain each time that she’d misread something, that the number would be different, that the name on the signature line would turn out to belong to someone else.It didn’t.The security guard at the entrance checked her name against his tablet and nodded her through without a word. The same lobby that had turned her away forty-eight hours ago now opened around her like it had been waiting. She followed a quiet assistant into a private elevator, rode it to the top floor without stopping, and stepped out into a studio that faced the whole city through floor-to-ceiling glass.A drafting table. A wall of reference materials already pinned up. Her name on a placard by the door.She stood in the middle of it for a moment and breathed.Then she opened her portfolio and got to work.-----The project brief was for
The mole
The city was empty at 3AM. Rohen drove fast through amber lights, Lucien’s warning still turning in his head: someone in that family knows the truth.Avalon’s headquarters occupied the top three floors of a glass tower in the financial district. Rohen had only been inside it twice. Tonight every light on the executive floor was burning.Lucien met him at the elevator, his silver hair slightly disheveled. Through the boardroom’s glass wall, lawyers sat around the long table with laptops open and papers spread. Three people Rohen didn’t recognize stood near the windows speaking in low voices.“They’ve been here since midnight,” Lucien said. “I pulled everyone I trust.”“That’s a shorter list than it was yesterday,” Rohen said.Lucien said nothing. Which was answer enough.-----The legal filings covered the boardroom table. Shell companies nested inside shell companies, each layer designed to frustrate any attempt to trace it back to a name. But the patterns were there.Rohen wasn’t a l
Midnight Threat
The servants’ quarters felt different tonight.Not because the basement room had changed—it was still cramped, still smelled of mildew, still had the same thin mattress and flickering overhead bulb. But Rohen lay there smiling, staring at the water-stained ceiling, feeling like a king.Lira had won.His underestimated wife, Lira, had walked into a boardroom full of executives and claimed a fifty billion dollar contract on her own merit. The look on Isolde’s face when she’d opened that portfolio. Olivier’s rage. Dante choking on his wine.Rohen replayed it in his mind like a favorite song.He’d spent the evening with Lira after the family dinner collapsed into chaos. They’d escaped to the gardens while the Veymars argued in furious whispers, trying to process what had happened. Under the stars, Lira had laughed and cried and held him tight.“I can’t believe it,” she’d whispered. “They actually chose me.”“I never doubted you,” Rohen had said, and meant it.For the first time since thei
The Golden Seal
Lira returned home just after noon, her portfolio clutched to her chest, tears streaming down her face.Rohen met her at the servants’ entrance, his heart sinking at the sight of her.“They wouldn’t even let me in,” she whispered, collapsing against him. “Security stopped me at the door. Said I didn’t have an appointment. That I was just another social climber trying to waste their time.”Rohen held her tight, fury burning in his chest. He’d arranged VIP access, but something had gone wrong. A miscommunication. A failure in the system.His system.“I’m so stupid,” Lira sobbed. “I actually thought I had a chance. Olivier was right. Dante was right. I’m not qualified for this.”“Stop.” Rohen pulled back, cupping her face in his hands. “You are qualified. More than any of them. This was a mistake, that’s all.”“A mistake that proved I don’t belong there.”“No.” His voice was firm. “It proved that security made an error. Tomorrow, you go back. You try again.”“Rohen—”“Tomorrow,” he repea
A Wife’s Burden
Rohen found Lira in their small room that night, sitting on the edge of the bed with her hands folded in her lap. She stared at the floor, her shoulders hunched with the weight of impossible expectations.“You should do it,” he said quietly, closing the door behind him.She looked up, eyes wide. “What?”“The Avalon contract. You should compete for it.”Lira shook her head immediately. “Rohen, I can’t—”“You can.” He sat beside her, taking her hand. “You’re an interior designer, Lira. A brilliant one. You have talent they don’t.”“Talent doesn’t matter.” Her voice cracked. “Olivier has connections. Dante has money. I have nothing but a portfolio of projects no one’s ever seen.”“The Avalon CEO doesn’t care about connections or money,” Rohen said, choosing his words carefully. “They care about vision. Innovation. Someone who can create something extraordinary.”“How do you know that?”Because I am the Avalon CEO, he thought. Because I would choose you over all of them without hesitation
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