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ONE GOOD CANDIDATE
“I have heard enough warnings from you for one night,” Ethan replied. He pointed toward the corridor. “Get out of my room before I call Lorne.”Selene turned around slowly. “Do not ignore my warning about Dr. Hilton Verda.”Ethan’s expression changed at once. The name carried weight because she had warned him about Hilton before.Ethan still found this warning uncomfortable because Hilton was a member of the Khagan Council, a respected doctor, and someone who had access to people in the highest levels of government.“What does Hilton have to do with this?” Ethan asked. “Are you going to continue accusing every powerful man in Verdanis of trying to kill me?”“I am not accusing everyone,” Selene answered. “I am warning you about the ones who have already chosen you as their enemy.”Ethan stepped away from the bed. “You said Leon Voss arranged the trap tonight. Now you are bringing up Hilton once again into it. Which one of them should I blame, Selene?”“You are still searching for one e
YOU ARE LOOKING IN THE WRONG DIRECTION
“You controlled that compound,” Ethan replied. “The guards obeyed you. The executioner obeyed you. Do not stand in my bedroom and pretend you were only passing through.”“I have not asked you to believe I am innocent,” Selene said. “I have asked you to believe Leon Voss wanted you dead.”Ethan searched her face, hoping to find even the smallest crack in her confidence. There was none. She neither pleaded for his trust nor attempted to excuse everything he had witnessed. That calmness unsettled him far more than tears or anger would have. It was as though she had already accepted that he would never believe her, yet she had chosen to speak anyway.Ethan clenched his fists. “That is exactly how manipulation works. You admit enough darkness to make the next lie sound honest.”“Then investigate me,” Selene replied. “Search the compound. Question every soldier. Examine the bodies. Follow the stolen money. But while you are doing all of that, do not walk into another meeting with Leon Vos
THE CHAIN OF EVIDENCE
Selene’s eyes remained fixed on him. “A controlled collision near the service tunnel. Your vehicle despite the security detail that was going to be attached to it would have been forced against the security barrier. The men sent to assist you would have been wearing Xavier emergency uniforms.”Ethan felt his stomach tighten, but he showed no surprise. “And then?”“You would have been moved into another vehicle under the excuse that the first one was unsafe,” Selene replied. “Before your real security team understood what had happened, you would have been dead.”“That is a detailed story,” Ethan said. “However details are not proof.”Selene slowly shook her head. “Your official driver was already working for me. Did you never ask yourself how easily I replaced the normal procedure around you?”“He betrayed me,” Ethan replied. “That has nothing to do with Leon.”“It proves your protection was already compromised,” Selene said. “If I could place a loyal man behind the wheel of the vehicl
THE ROUTE TO DEATH
Could Ethan ever trust his wife again? The question remained in his mind, but he refused to let it weaken him. Selene had lied too many times, hidden too many secrets, and controlled too many dangerous people for him to accept this version of her story simply because several details seemed to fit.Ethan looked away from her and walked toward the window. Beyond the glass, Tribunal soldiers moved around the estate grounds with weapons in their hands. Their presence should have made him feel safe, yet Selene had entered his private bedroom without raising a single alarm.“You expect me to believe Leon Voss arranged my assassination because his delegation left the tower?” Ethan asked. He turned back toward her with a hard expression. “That is not evidence. It is a suspicious reaction, nothing more.”Selene remained beside the small table. “You are not rejecting my explanation because it lacks sense. You are rejecting it because you do not want the truth to come from me.”“I reject accusa
THE TRAP
"I know the real reason why he came to Xavier Global Tower tonight.” Selene said.“He came to sign a licensing agreement,” Ethan said. “Quantum Nexus was granting Xavier Technologies exclusive access to its next-generation encryption architecture.”“That is what the documents said.”Ethan frowned. The confidence in Selene's voice unsettled him more than the accusation itself. She was not speaking as someone making a guess. She sounded like someone who had already seen the truth and was waiting for him to catch up. That certainty made it harder to dismiss her words as another attempt at manipulation.“That is what the entire negotiation was about,” Ethan insisted. “My legal and technical teams reviewed the agreement for weeks.”Selene gave him a cold look. “Your teams reviewed the contract. They did not review the men who arrived to sign it.”Ethan’s mind began working faster. Mira had said Leon seemed afraid that something had gone wrong. She had also said he never asked whether Etha
THE MEETING WAS A LIE
Ethan stared at her for several seconds, certain he had heard incorrectly. “You protected me, are you sure you hear yourself correctly?”“Yes.” Selene’s answer came without hesitation. “Everything I did tonight was to keep you alive.”Ethan’s jaw tightened again. “You expect me to believe that being tied to an execution chair while a masked man held a knife over me was protection?”“You were never going to be executed,” Selene replied. “The knife was never meant to touch you. The chair, the guards, and the executioner were part of something you still do not understand.”“The prisoner died in front of me,” Ethan said. “Was his death also part of your protection?”Selene looked away for the first time. Her eyes moved toward the closed curtains before returning to him. “That man had already been sentenced to death long before you entered the compound.”“By whom?” Ethan demanded. “By you?”“That answer is not important tonight.”“It is important to me.” Ethan stepped closer until only a f
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