2025-10-21 17:56:55Harry couldn't believe his ears but before he could turn around to face her, she brushed past him and strutted like the path to the agency was her runway.
Harry couldn't believe his eyes, he knew he was bound to cross paths with her very soon at school, but he didn’t plan to see her so soon after what she did to him yesterday. And of all places, at his Agency. What are the odds? At that moment, Harry could feel nothing but disgust towards her, but he realized that if everything that happened yesterday never happened he would never have awakened this system as there was no way he was going to ever spend $500 on just any lady when he could barely even feed himself and pay rent. That would be absurd but he had that luxury right now, Harry was tempted to call out to her to see her face one more time before he goes full revenge mode on her, but it occurred to him that he owned the agency. So whatever she came here to do would ultimately become his business, he realized that he needed to get new clothes because he did look like a peasant. "Alicia…" Harry muttered under his breath as a smile creased his face on his way to his car. He needed to do more research on both her and Marcus. He knew Alicia, but something tells him there is more to her that he was too blinded by love to see. He also needed to do more research on the modelling/fashion industry as this could be his gateway into the fashion world and allow him to mingle with top models and designers. Harry smiled at the thought but this might be a fantasy right now but in the future, it would most certainly become a reality. He could become the richest man in the world with this power in the space of a day if he played his cards right but Harry knew something like this would raise suspicion. The last thing he needed was the government coming to ask questions because the bank he had was in their system so he had to be extra careful. Harry got into his car and took a deep breath, he recalled how big Susan's boobs were and how she was able to carry them around daily. The fact that he could remember every single detail he had seen only made this a lot more difficult to resist thinking about. Harry recalled their interaction and just shook his head, he hoped the impression he left was a good one. Harry realized he would have to give Melissa a call not because he liked her but rather because she was a means to increase his wealth. That was all he cared about and the system was set up in a way that he couldn't spend on himself and earn so he was forced to interact with women even if he didn't want to. But deep down Harry wanted to, he wanted to taste as many women as he possibly can. Harry was driving when a car nearly rammed right into him but thanks to his innate mastery of operating vehicles, Harry reacted just at the right time by swerving to the right to avoid a head-on collision. Harry hit the brake to stop himself from hitting a stop sign, he didn't know what the hell happened but that could have been the end of his life right there. ‘That was close…’ Harry thought to himself as this incident generated some traffic. Harry left his car to see if the person that nearly ran into him was alright only to see the car in a ditch somewhere. People gathered around to make sure they were alright but Harry waved it off, he was without a scratch and there was no dent on his car, but he wasn't so sure about the other driver. Harry simply needed to see if it was a lady so he could pay for the damages even though insurance would cover it, that's if they had any, to begin with. A lady stepped out of the car and she wasn't anything close to attractive, she looked worn out and it was clear that she had little to no sleep due to the eye bags hanging on her face. Harry could tell this was a young lady but life must be defeating her at every turn, he was in a similar situation just a day ago and for the first time in years, he had a proper night's rest. "Are you okay?" Harry questioned the woman but she was dazed, she had a little blood dripping from her forehead but it was nothing to worry about. "OH MY GOODNESS! I AM SO SORRY!" The woman immediately apologized and Harry experienced something that seemed hard to come by and that was someone taking accountability. "I SHOULD HAVE WATCHED WHERE I WAS GOING! DO YOU NEED MY INFORMATION?" The lady was rattled, Harry noticed her hands were trembling and realized that unlike him, she wasn't blessed with the motor mastery he had. "It is fine, allow me to pay for the damages…" Harry said and the woman was confused by this considering she was the one that caused the accident. She simply burst into tears and Harry didn't know how to react to this but after a few minutes. He got her account details and sent a sum of $5,000 for the little dents and the shattered glass, this was more than enough to cover the costs of these things. The woman wailed and bawled her eyes out, Harry knew that she needed this more than he did but there was something strange, there was no notification from his system informing him of money being transferred to his account. ‘What delay?’ Harry thought to himself but a Cyan screen popped up at this moment to explain the situation to him. [The rebate system only pays you when you spend on women you find attractive.] Harry read this and looked back at the woman, he tried to make her appear attractive but the mucus running down her nose quickly made this an impossible task. ‘It would be a dick move on my part if I asked her to refund back my money?’ Harry thought to himself as this was something that he did consider doing. Once again, Harry realized he didn't know the quirks of the system and he had just dashed a woman $5,000 with no cashback. This meant he was down to $12,000. He had to find a way to turn this $12,000 into a much higher amount as he couldn't risk going back to zero. Harry was glad he didn't give her every penny he had or that would have served as a cruel lesson to learn more about his system. He got back into his car but he didn't go home. Harry was on the hunt for beautiful women and they were everywhere he looked. Crestview city was literally filled to the brim with beautiful ladies. However, he had to find just the right one as he parked his car by the sidewalk. It got a little attention due to its luxury exterior but nothing lingering. ‘Should I have spoken to Alicia? Spend some money on her?’ Harry thought to himself, he flipped through his phone and quickly searched for his bank transaction history which he found. He searched for Alicia's account number that he deposited $200 two months ago, and he nursed a thought, what if he transferred the $10,000 into her bank account? This was sure to not only get her attention but multiply his wealth, it worked the first time so there was no reason why it shouldn't work the second. This meant that Harry still found her attractive despite what she did to him and for some reason he knew he had to have her wrapped around his fingers. Isolate her from Marcus Winter. This was his opportunity to get some sort of payback and he did just that, Harry transferred the $10,000 to Alicia's bank account with a memo. "Here's my phone number, XXX-XXX-XXX, in case you have deleted it." attached to it and like clockwork, the system responded. It took nothing less than a minute before a Cyan screen appeared to inform him that this was successful. [Ding!] [Spent $10,000. 10X Critical Hit. Earned $100,000! The money has been transferred to your account!] [Spent at least $10,000 on a beautiful lady!] [Harem Members: 2/2] [Name: Melissa, Age: 20, Affection 5%] [Name: Alicia, Age 21, Affection: 25%]
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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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