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Immediately Penelope's brother nodded slowly, his lips curling into something that was not quite a smile but wanted to be mistaken for one.“Good,” he said. “I'm glad you understand where you stand.”He adjusted his posture slightly, squaring his shoulders as though Liam's acceptance of reality had returned some invisible authority to him.“I'm glad you understand your lane,” he continued. “That is very, very satisfying to hear.”Then his expression shifted, Something calculating moved behind his eyes.“But I see what you're doing,” he said.He tilted his head slightly."You want more money,” he said. “That's why you're telling me all of this. That's why you're being so noble and humble and principled.”He almost smiled.“It's a negotiation,” he said. “I get it.”He waved his hand dismissively.“Fine,” he said. “I'll double it.”He looked at his phone screen briefly.“One million dollars.”He said it the way a man says it when he believes the number itself should end the conversation
Chapter 128
Immediately Liam stopped.He did not turn around dramatically. He did not stiffen with obvious offense. He simply stopped walking and stood where he was, calm and unhurried, as though he had half expected this moment to come.Penelope's brother glanced quickly toward the door where his father and Penelope had just passed through, making sure the distance between them was sufficient. Then he turned back and cleared his throat.When he spoke, his voice was low.Deliberately low.“First and foremost,” he began, “let me tell you something.”He paused, as though organizing his words with the precision of a man who wanted to make absolutely certain he was understood.“Thank you,” he said. “For saving my father.”The words came out measured, careful, like coins being counted out one by one.“Even though the doctors could have done a very good job as well,” he added almost reflexively, as though he could not quite bring himself to give the credit cleanly without attaching a qualification to i
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
Chapter 126
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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