2025-06-23 04:32:45The file in Aiden’s hands was heavy, not from weight, but from what it meant, Photos, timestamps, bank statements. All tied together with a simple truth: Jason Cole had been working with Victor Lang for months, Money exchanged. Silent meetings at private airfields. Secret votes bought long before Aiden had even inherited a dime. It wasn’t coincidence.
It wasn’t luck. It was a trap, The woman beside him, half her face hidden by shadows, tapped the photo of Jason whispering into Lang’s ear. “They planned for you to refuse the inheritance,” she said. “They were going to declare you ‘unfit’ and absorb the consortium. But when you accepted… they shifted gears.”
“Who are you?” Aiden asked again, his voice quiet. She hesitated, then finally answered. “My name is Lyra Voss. I used to work for your uncle. Caleb Remington.”
“Used to?” “Until he was poisoned.” Aiden felt the breath leave his lungs. “Poisoned?” he echoed.
She nodded. “A neurotoxin that mimics a stroke. Took six hours to kill him. Silent. Untraceable. Unless… you knew what to look for.” “You think Jason”
“I know Jason helped orchestrate it. But he didn’t do it alone. Lang needed Caleb out of the way to open the path for a board-controlled empire.” Aiden gritted his teeth. “So they killed my uncle. Set me up to fail. And now they’re bleeding me dry from the inside.”
Lyra looked at him. “They’re not done. You’re the last loose thread.” Back at the estate, Whitmore listened carefully as Aiden explained everything, He didn’t blink when he heard the word poison, Instead, he rose and locked the door.
“There’s something you should see,” he said, walking toward the fireplace. He pressed a stone and a small safe opened. Inside: a letter. Handwritten. From Caleb. Aiden opened it with trembling fingers.
If you’re reading this, I’m already dead. They’ll tell you it was natural. It wasn’t. I trusted the wrong men for too long. and now the wolves are wearing suits. But I left something behind: knowledge. And leverage. And if you’re anything like your grandfather… maybe a chance to set things right. Remember this: everyone has a price. But not everyone has a soul. Find the difference, and you’ll survive.
Aiden stared at the letter long after the words blurred. This was bigger than revenge, This was a war for legacy, Later that night, as he walked back to his suite, he found Melissa waiting by his door. “Aiden,” she whispered, makeup smeared, eyes red. He froze. “What the hell are you doing here?”
“I was wrong,” she said. “Jason… he’s dangerous. He told me things I didn’t understand, and now, he’s watching me. I don’t feel safe.”
He didn’t move. “You expect me to believe this?”
“I can prove it,” she said. “He has a list. Names of board members. People he’s paying. He left it in a safe, Unit 32 at Paladin Storage downtown.”
Aiden’s heart stuttered. If she was lying, it could be a trap. But if she wasn’t… “Fine,” he said. “You’re coming with me.” They arrived at the storage unit just after midnight. The air was stale. The building was empty. Security lights flickered like dying stars, Melissa trembled as she typed the access code. Beep.
The metal door groaned open. Inside: files. Folders. A locked case. Aiden reached for it, Click. He froze. Melissa had stepped back. A gun was in her hand. “…I’m sorry,” she whispered, Behind her, footsteps.
Jason stepped out of the shadows, dressed in black, eyes gleaming like a predator, “Hey, cousin,” he said with a grin. “We need to stop meeting like this.”
Jason raises the gun. “I wanted you to back out. Quietly. But you just had to play the hero.”
Aiden’s hands slowly rise. “You don’t want to do this.”
“Oh, I do. But I’m not going to kill you. Not yet.” He nods to Melissa. She presses a button. A side door opens. Men in suits step in armed, Jason leans close.
“You’ll disappear tonight, Aiden. The world will say you cracked under pressure. Vanished. Stress. Suicide, maybe.” Aiden’s voice is steel. “I’m not dying in a storage unit.”
Jason smirks. “Then fight back.” Aiden lunges. Gunfire explodes. Darkness swallows everything.
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Chapter 107: Siege of the Vault
The first blast ripped through the air like a hurricane wrapped in fire. Steel beams twisted, molten rivulets streaming down the walls as the shockwave punched the breath from Jace’s lungs.He hit the ground hard, instinctively rolling behind a toppled server rack just as another shot vaporized the spot where he’d been seconds before.The armored behemoth clambered fully out of the core breach now, its legs drove like piledrivers into the collapsing vault floor, each step accompanied by a hiss of steam and a pulse of blue light deep in its joints. It was taller than the exo-suit, twice as heavily plated, and its front bristled with six rotating barrels already spinning to life.The other Jace didn’t run. He was grinning. “Finally,” he muttered, low enough for only Jace to catch.Then he moved, straight at the thing, The suited man swore and sprinted toward the far side of the vault, dodging debris and leaping over fractures like the collapsing steel was a well-mapped dance floor. “Jac
Chapter 106: Vault Collapse
The vault floor fractured like thin ice under a heavy boot. Sections of reinforced steel tilted and slid into the dark, yawning pit below. Molten cables spat sparks, lighting the fog in violent flashes.Jace barely managed to leap onto a still-solid platform, his breath ragged. His hand clamped tighter on the briefcase, it felt heavier now, not from weight but from the screaming awareness that every faction in this room wanted it.The other Jace moved like a predator, fluid and precise, leaping over collapsing panels with impossible balance. Each step he took seemed intentional, like he could read the vault’s death throes before they happened.The exo-suit, still limping from the earlier blow, tried to stabilize itself. Its clawed legs punctured through steel panels, anchoring it in place. “TARGET LOCKED,” it rasped through broken speakers, but before it could act, the other Jace ripped up one of the steel plates and hurled it like a discus. The slab smashed into the exo-suit’s torso,
Chapter 105: The Other Jace
The exo-suit hit the steel floor with the weight of a meteor, sending shockwaves through the room. The ceiling’s breach still rained debris as its cannon arm tracked between Jace, the suited man, and the glass cylinder.“IDENTIFY SUBJECT,” the machine’s voice boomed, a synthetic growl layered over a woman’s tone Jace swore he recognized.The suited man didn’t flinch. “You’re wasting your time,” he said to the machine, then flicked his gaze at Jace. “Step back.”Jace didn’t. His pistol was trained on both threats now, on the suit’s central optic and on the man’s smug, infuriatingly calm face.The cylinder hissed. A cascade of bubbles erupted in the shimmering fluid, and the other Jace inside opened his eyes fully. The pupils gleamed with a metallic glint. He pressed a palm against the glass from the inside, and a spiderweb of cracks bloomed outward.“Contain him!” the machine barked, yes, barked, like it knew exactly what would happen if the cylinder broke. The suited man smirked. “Too
Title: Chapter 104: Into the Pit
The instant the floor collapsed, Jace’s stomach lurched into his throat.Dust and splintered concrete swallowed him, the roar of crumbling steel drowning out every thought. Gravity yanked him down through darkness, the only light the faint, unnatural glow leaking from the bullet hole in the briefcase.Something heavy slammed into his shoulder mid-fall. A chunk of rebar, jagged and rusted, scraped across his arm, tearing fabric and skin. He gritted his teeth, twisting in the air, trying to avoid the rain of debris chasing him into the abyss. Then, impact.He hit hard, the air punched from his lungs. The briefcase clanged against the floor beside him. Pain rippled up his spine, but his survival instincts snapped him upright before he could even groan. The room around him wasn’t what he expected.It wasn’t rubble-filled or buried under tons of collapsed building. It was… intact. The walls were reinforced steel, the floor smooth, and the air unnaturally still, as though sealed from the ch
Chapter 103: The Fall
The world narrowed to wind and darkness, Jace’s body twisted in freefall, the blazing rooftop shrinking above him, flames licking at the night sky. The weight of the steel briefcase on his harness yanked at his shoulder, threatening to spin him midair.Below, the streets were a chaotic tapestry of sirens, honking cars, and the distant screams of panicked civilians. Somewhere down there, the ground was rushing up to greet him, and if he hit it, there’d be nothing left to scrape off the pavement.Instinct overrode fear. He yanked at the quick-release buckles on his rappelling harness, freeing the slack line he’d used to swing into the penthouse.The coil whipped upward, caught on a window frame three floors down, and jerked him sideways with bone-jarring force. His shoulder screamed in protest.Glass exploded around him as he crashed through a lower-level window.He landed hard on an office desk, scattering papers and a still-steaming coffee cup. The scalding liquid splashed across his
Chapter 102: The Whisper in the Contract
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