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CHAPTER 173
Gideon Langston stormed out of the boutique with the sharp staccato of his Italian leather shoes echoing against the marble. Rage coiled in his chest like a serpent. The smirks, the gasps, the humiliation—it all burned in his veins.He had underestimated Javier Everhart.Again.The man was like a ghost in the corporate world—unseen, unheard, and yet always one step ahead. The more Gideon tried to pull the strings, the more he found himself tangled in Javier’s invisible web.He climbed into the back of his limousine, barking into his phone, “I want everything you can find on Javier Everhart. Every property, every partner, every damn private holding. I don’t care how deep he’s buried it. Dig.”“Yes, Mr. Langston,” the assistant stammered.But as the call ended, Gideon leaned back and muttered bitterly, “This isn’t over. He’ll regret ever stepping out of his shadows.”Meanwhile, across the city, Javier sat alone in the Everhart Holdings penthouse office. The view behind him was dazzling—
CHAPTER 172
The scent of luxury clung to the marble-floored halls of the Eldorian Jewelers boutique. Velvet displays gleamed under spotlighted glass, whispering wealth, status, and exclusivity. Inside, a dozen affluent patrons roamed, decked in designer and entitlement. Among them, Javier Everhart stood—plain slacks, a modest button-up shirt, and scuffed shoes that looked shamefully out of place next to diamond cuffs and crocodile leather.He was there for one thing: a custom necklace he had commissioned weeks ago for Valeria.As he approached the counter, the attending saleswoman barely glanced up from her tablet. “Sir, this area is by appointment only. Delivery services use the back entrance.”“I have an appointment,” Javier said calmly.She lifted her gaze, eyes sweeping over him like dust. “Name?”“Javier Everhart.”The name made her pause—but only briefly. Then, dismissively, she typed it in.Behind him, a man in a glossy suit chuckled as he spoke to his wife. “Poor guy probably wandered in
CHAPTER 171
The soft click of leather soles echoed through the underground parking lot beneath Everhart Tower. Javier Everhart walked alone, his figure calm and unbothered in his usual plain attire—charcoal slacks, an off-the-rack shirt, and no hint of the empire that pulsed beneath his name. To most, he was still the "assistant," the man who delivered coffee to executives who didn’t know he paid their salaries.But tonight, his calm carried a blade.Hidden in the shadowed pillars was the final piece of a puzzle that had bled his company for months.The mole.Javier turned the corner and stopped in front of a black sedan parked near the service lift. A tall man leaned against it, nervously smoking. It was Darren Holt, one of the junior project directors—ambitious, always eager to be seen, always quick to laugh too loud at a superior’s joke. He was also the one who’d been leaking internal documents, contracts, and board memos to Gideon Langston’s firm.Darren stiffened when he saw Javier. Then he
CHAPTER 170
The city buzzed beneath the late-night sky, the stars masked by skyscrapers and ambition. In the heart of Everhart Holdings, the top floor glowed dimly with only one office lit—Javier Everhart’s.He stood with his back to the glass wall, arms crossed, eyes locked on the tablet in his hand. A string of confidential emails had been traced back to an anonymous IP, but Javier had already narrowed it down to five high-level executives. And he had a plan to trap the traitor.One by one, he had fed each suspect tailored false information over the last two weeks—a fake merger deal, a forged scandal, a fictional acquisition. Each detail carefully planted and monitored.Now, one of those fabrications had leaked to the press."Got you," Javier muttered under his breath.He tapped a secure line on his phone. "Heather, activate the silent audit on Director Lannister's comms. Now.""Already done, sir. The metadata confirms it: encrypted message sent to an external line five hours after your planted
CHAPTER 169
The murmur of gossip still echoed in corners of the grand ballroom, but the man at its center — Javier Everhart — had already reclaimed his composure, retreating to the fringe of the crowd with his ever-unbothered calm. Yet Valeria noticed the subtle clench in his jaw, the way his eyes drifted toward the chandeliers as if trying to focus elsewhere.She knew that look.It was restraint.Pain, neatly hidden behind stillness.They thought he was weak. They thought he was beneath her. And tonight, they’d gone too far.As another waiter passed, Valeria plucked a champagne flute from the tray and turned toward the group of guests who had openly mocked her husband not five minutes ago. Theodore was gone — humiliated, hopefully nursing his pride somewhere — but others remained, chuckling among themselves, whispering cruel things masked as jokes.Valeria walked directly to them.The circle shifted, then straightened, surprised by her sudden presence.“Mrs. Everhart,” drawled one of the women,
CHAPTER 168
The ballroom shimmered with a thousand crystal lights, and the music of a live orchestra echoed beneath vaulted ceilings gilded in gold. The annual Delacroix Foundation Gala was one of the grandest affairs in the city — the kind of place where alliances were forged, secrets traded in whispers, and wealth measured not just in currency, but in confidence.Tonight, as guests mingled in gowns and suits tailored by designers flown in from Paris and Milan, a quiet murmur spread from one end of the hall to the other.“Who is she?”“She’s stunning.”“That dress… and the way she walks—who is she with?”Heads turned as Valeria Everhart descended the marble stairs with the kind of elegance that made silence fall. Clad in a sleek off-shoulder midnight blue gown that hugged her form like silk over fire, her poise was untouchable. Hair swept to one side, eyes cool yet gracious, she walked as if the world owed her reverence.But walking beside her, with one hand loosely tucked in his pocket and the
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