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Chapter 127
At that, Liam smiled.It was a quiet smile—easy, unhurried, and entirely without defensiveness. The kind of smile that belongs to someone who has long since made peace with who they are and no longer needs the world's approval to confirm it.“Well,Sir”he said, “you don't have to flatter me in that manner.”His voice was warm but grounded.“And nothing is wrong anywhere,” he added, with a slight tilt of his head. “This is literally who I am. This is what I am.”He held the statement simply, without apology, without performance.“I am an E-level citizen,” he said, “and I am proud to be one.”The room absorbed that.And somehow, the way he said it—with such complete and unshakeable ease made it land differently than anyone expected. There was no bitterness in it, no hidden plea for sympathy, no attempt to reframe or soften it. Just a man stating a truth about himself the same way he might state his own name.Penelope's father looked at him for a long moment after that.Then something in
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It was after that statement—after the words “I like you” had settled warmly into the air that Penelope's father suddenly seemed to realize something he should have asked much earlier.He tilted his head slightly, his face thoughtful, curious, even a little embarrassed at the oversight.Then he said, “Sorry for not even asking earlier.”He looked at Liam directly.“But with this kind of brain,” he said, gesturing vaguely toward him as though Liam's intelligence were something visible in the room, “and everything you just demonstrated… let me just guess.”He smiled lightly.“You must be an A-level citizen.”The moment those words left his mouth, Penelope's jaw tightened.She had not expected this, she had not expected her father to go this extra mile to bring social rank into the conversation at all, let alone so openly, so casually, as though it were something that mattered just as much as the fact that Liam had saved his life.She opened her mouth slightly, already preparing to say so
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His voice remained practical, unhurried.“Simply say it was food poisoning,” he said. “Something minor. Something already resolved. Something that sounds ordinary enough that nobody feels the need to dig further.”He let that breathe for a second.“And then back it up with something visual.”Penelope tilted her head slightly.“Do a short video,” Liam said. “Show yourself active. Show yourself moving. Show yourself well.”He gestured lightly as he spoke, illustrating the idea without dramatizing it.“You can record yourself on a treadmill. Jogging lightly. Going through a simple routine. Something that looks natural and effortless.”His eyes remained on Penelope's father.“So that when anyone tries to push a bad narrative, the public has already seen something different,” he said. “They have already seen you healthy, active, and unbothered.”He folded his hands slightly.“Give them absolutely nothing to work with,” he said. “Play the game on your own terms.”The silence that followe
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The moment his father's words settled in the room, Penelope's brother swallowed hard.It was involuntary.The kind of physical reaction the body produces when the mind is struggling to accept something it did not expect and does not particularly want to be true. He had spent so much energy resisting Liam questioning him, dismissing him, trying to remove him from the situation entirely—and now here was his father, the very man at the center of everything, openly welcoming Liam's voice into the conversation.He wanted to say something, he could feel the objection sitting right at the edge of his tongue.But before he could shape it into words, Liam spoke.And the way he spoke immediately made it difficult to interrupt.There was no arrogance in his voice.No triumph, no trace of someone who had just been proven right and wanted everyone to know it.He simply said, “Well, there is nothing wrong with keeping everything low for now.”He looked toward Penelope's father as he said it, his to
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The moment their father finished speaking, Penelope’s brother nodded almost immediately, as though he had been waiting for the chance to align himself with that decision.“Yes,” he said at once. “Exactly. Exactly what Father just said is absolutely true.”His voice was firm again now, steadier than before, as if his father’s recovery had helped him recover his own footing too. The earlier panic and outrage had not disappeared entirely, but they had rearranged themselves into something more controlled something that sounded less like raw emotion and more like a man trying to reclaim authority in a situation that had nearly slipped from his hands.“There are too many people watching,” he continued. “Too many people who would be eager to notice if anything is wrong. There are so many people who are definitely going to be praying for a crack, and so many others who will be keeping their eyes open to see what is going on in this family.”He shook his head once.“Yes, the fact remains that
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Penelope nodded at once, her face set with urgency.“Better,” she said. “That’s exactly what we need to do right now—and we need to do it quickly and quietly.”Her voice was firm, controlled, but charged with the pressure of everything that had just happened.“There’s no time to waste,” she continued. “No time at all.”She glanced briefly toward the unconscious female doctor, then back at her brother and father.“We’ve already done our best to keep this within ourselves,” she said. “We’ve tried to make sure there is no noise, no unnecessary fuss, no chance for the wrong people to hear about it.”Her eyes hardened.“And that is good. We should still be careful. But that doesn’t mean we should fold our hands and do nothing.”That last sentence settled heavily in the room.Because she was right.Keeping quiet and doing nothing were not the same thing.Protecting the family from scandal was one matter. Ignoring the reality that someone had almost killed their father was another entirely.
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