2025-10-21 17:55:21Harry pulled up in front of his agency and it was a lot bigger than he thought, it had an intricate design that exuded elegance with top-class infrastructure.
It stood out compared to other buildings surrounding it, not because it was flashier, but it just had a unique design, but then again this was one of the more expensive parts of Crestview city. Harry realized only after he arrived that he should have bought something fancy to wear so that he could leave a good first impression. The clothes he wore weren't a reflection of his new man of means status, anyone could easily mistake him for an average bum. Harry exited the car and Rita was already waiting outside to welcome him. When Harry left the car, Rita was surprised that he looked like the average college student and not her new boss. He didn't look elegant or classy and this only made her mistake this as a sign of humility and not the fact that he was just a poor student only a few hours ago. "Good day sir, I have come to personally welcome you to Savour Agency," Rita greeted with a smile but Harry was surprised that this was a genuine smile. She was truly glad to see him prompting him to wonder why but this was an insignificant detail. "Thank you…" Harry said, pausing abruptly as he looked at her name tag. "Rita, are you the one in charge of this agency?" Harry questioned but this only made Rita blush at the thought of him thinking she could hold that position not knowing that Harry was oblivious as to how a CEO should look. "I'm afraid I am not the CEO, Sir. But the CEO has been expecting you," Rita responded as she led the way. "Alright," Harry responded, he didn't know what else to say or do as he was still shocked that this was happening. Harry entered the building and the fragrance that invaded his nostrils sent him into a trance. ‘This place is so fucking fancy!’ Harry thought to himself as he was led to an office at the end of a corridor. "Miss Susan will see you now," Rita said but she emphasized the Miss as if subtly telling Harry she was single. However, Harry wasn't paying enough attention to pick up on this. He was still processing everything that was happening. Harry made his way into the room and to his surprise, there sat a woman in a light blue uniform top with a black shirt just above her knee, exposing a little bit of her thighs in the process with long socks and high heels. But the thing that got Harry's attention was how her shirt was barely able to keep those big melons on her chest in place without the buttons popping off. Harry gulped hard as he stepped inside the room, there was a transparent table separating them. ‘That was an interesting choice,’ he thought to himself. She got up the moment Harry entered, he was officially her boss and what he did to the agency was up to him however this was her moment to show him her vision. "Mr Farrow! So nice to meet you, I'm Susan!" Susan greeted, stretching her hand for a handshake. She was confident no doubt but this didn't scare Harry, he had met women like her at school and at his various jobs and they all had one thing in common, they were all stuck-up bitches. And Harry knew she was no different from them, the only reason she was like this was due to his position and it wasn't a reflection of who she was. “Susan, that's a fine name but I would like for us to get down to business," Harry knew he had to make a strong first impression. "O-Of course, please sit," Susan stammered, she didn't know why but just as Harry knew how important a first impression was, so did Susan. "You don't need to be so nervous, I'm not Count Dracula or anything nightmares are made of," Harry made a silly joke, trying his best to break the evident tension in the air. Susan was embarrassed that he noticed that, even if Harry didn't have the skill granted by the system, he would still have spotted this without a doubt. "I'm sorry, Sir," Susan quickly apologized. Harry thought she was a powerful woman when he walked in here but she was awfully submissive right now. "I have to ask you something that has been nagging at me since I came in here. Why the transparent table?" Harry couldn't hold his curiosity as it was a bizarre choice, to say the least. "The motto of Savour Agency is transparency so this is a literal demonstration that we hide nothing," Susan responded, she knew how corny this sounded but it was a clever marketing strategy. "Ah, that is pretty smart! Now that is how you get the client!" Harry was a little more excited than he should have been and Susan blushed as she didn't expect this enthusiastic reaction from him. If anything, she expected him to point out how corny it was but upon closer examination, this man was way younger than her. She kept her mouth shut as he carefully examined the document before him, thanks to the ability he had gotten from his system, he could remember everything he read almost to a fault even though he didn't quite understand what it was exactly he was reading. He immediately thought of how this would help him during tests and exams. "You know what Susan? How about I leave the technical issues to you, keep running it how you have been running and if you need anything, give me a call," Harry encouraged her and this was the best case scenario considering this allowed her to retain control over the agency without doing much of the work that comes with it. Harry snuck a peak at her chest once again when she was putting away the documents before averting his gaze. ‘Things that big should be a tourist attraction…’ Harry thought to himself. [Savour Agency Status Change: Congratulations, you just entered the top 1,000 promising modelling agency!] ‘Well, not bad I guess,’ Harry thought to himself while exiting the building. He stood and stared at the sign, wondering if he should change the name to something that speaks more to him as he didn't even know why it was called Savour. "Move it!" A voice barked at him from behind but Harry recognized this voice without even turning around. "Alicia?" Harry muttered under his breath.
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Chapter 528. The System, Reconsidered
The system's presence had always felt different from anything else in Harry's life, less like a voice and more like a pressure behind his eyes that resolved itself into meaning once he stopped fighting it. He hadn't summoned it deliberately in weeks, not since the island, not since it had given him everything it had left and gone quiet and spent in the aftermath. He wasn't even sure it would answer.It answered.[You called.]"I need to ask you something," Harry said, alone in his room, door locked, feeling faintly ridiculous the way he always did talking to something that lived somewhere behind his own thoughts. "About the Guardian tier. About what it actually was, out there."[A narrowed function. Protection only. No accumulation, no leverage, no return. You asked for something to keep people alive, and I gave you the smallest version of myself that could answer that specific need.]"Can it be permanent?" Harry asked. "Not the rest of it. Not the wealth stuff, not the harem trackin
Chapter 527. Why I Needed It
Harry sat on the back porch with a cup of coffee going cold in his hands, watching the sun come up over a neighborhood that had no idea what had happened on an island a few hundred miles away, no idea how close things had come to going a different way. He'd been doing this most mornings since he got back. Sitting. Thinking. Trying to sort through everything that had happened before the day made him move and act like a person who had his life together. He kept coming back to the system. What it used to be. What it had become out there when it mattered. For years, the system had meant money. Rebates on his own emotional labor, cashback on kindness he barely had to fake anymore, a strange economy built entirely around making his life bigger and softer and easier. He'd used it to build an empire out of nothing, and somewhere in the middle of all that wealth he'd lost track of what any of it was actually for. It had felt, for a long time, like the whole point of having power was simp
Chapter 526. What Happened to Me
Dr. Gail's office had a window that looked out over a parking lot, nothing special about the view, and Harry found himself staring at it anyway during the long stretches where he couldn't make himself talk."You don't have to fill the silence," Dr. Gail said, the third session in, when Harry had spent most of the hour saying almost nothing at all. "A lot of people think therapy means talking constantly. Sometimes it just means being somewhere safe long enough to notice what's actually there.""What's there is a mess," Harry finally said."Tell me about the mess, then. However it comes out."He told her about the sound of the shot first, because that was the part that came back to him most, sharper than the memory of pulling the trigger itself. The crack of it across the water. The way Tyrone had gone down like something had simply switched off inside him."I don't regret doing it," Harry said, careful, like the words might mean something different depending on how he arranged them. "I
Chapter 525. Kathryn Closes the Case
Kathryn had been chasing this case long before Harry ever knew her name. He learned that properly for the first time sitting across from her in a diner booth that smelled like burnt coffee, watching her turn a folder over in her hands like she wasn't quite ready to open it in front of him. "Six years," she said finally. "Six years of wealthy men going missing, and everyone telling me to let it go because none of the families wanted the attention, or the money made the disappearances look like choices instead of crimes. Six years of being told I was chasing shadows." "You weren't," Harry said. "You were the only one who saw it." "I was the only one who couldn't stop seeing it," Kathryn said. "There's a difference. Half the department thought I'd lost the plot. My captain pulled me off it twice. I kept working it anyway, on my own time, because every time I tried to file it away, I'd see one more name that fit the same pattern and I couldn't make myself walk past it." She opened the
Chapter 524. Desmond Cole's Family
Harry found out Desmond's last name from a folder Kathryn handed him without being asked, like she understood he needed it and would never manage to ask for it himself. Desmond Cole. Thirty eight years old. Two tours before he came home and started doing private security work, the kind that paid well because it was supposed to be safe, the kind that had gotten him hired onto a job that turned out to be nothing like what he signed up for.He had a wife. Her name was Renee. And a daughter, seven years old, named Iris.Harry sat with that folder open on his kitchen table for a long time before he could make himself do anything with it.He didn't know what right he had to show up at a dead man's door. He hadn't known Desmond long, only the length of the island, only the length of a handful of days that felt now like they belonged to some other, longer life. But Desmond had shielded them from gunfire that should have found Harry instead, had put his body between danger and people he'd kn
Chapter 523. Sophie and Elena
Harry checked himself out of the hospital two days earlier than the doctors wanted, mostly because the beeping of the monitors had started to sound too much like a countdown to something, and he needed to be somewhere that didn't feel like waiting. Melissa didn't argue with him about it. She just packed his things while he signed the forms with a hand that still wasn't entirely steady, and drove him home without asking any of the questions he could see sitting behind her eyes. It was three days after that when he finally worked up the nerve to visit Sophie. Her mother answered the door, and for a second neither of them said anything at all. Then she pulled him into a hug so tight it nearly folded him in half, and he heard her say thank you into his shoulder, over and over, until the words stopped sounding like language and just became sound, raw and grateful and a little broken. "She's out back," her mother finally said, wiping her face with the back of her hand. "She talks about
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