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A KING FORCED UNDERGROUND
“Wait, are you suggesting I sneak into my own company?”“I’m suggesting that we get you inside without forcing your soldiers to hurt civilians,” the commander answered carefully. “There is an underground executive passage from the eastern service route. Xavier security can open it for us, and the convoy can reach the private garage without passing through the main crowd.”Ethan did not answer immediately. The idea of entering his own headquarters through a hidden route while people outside demanded his arrest offended something deep inside him. Yet he knew the commander was right about one thing: proving his courage at the front gate was not worth creating dead civilians.“Use the passage,” Ethan finally ordered. “But understand this clearly. We are changing the route because I want those people alive, not because I’m afraid to face them.”The commander understood the distinction immediately. “No one in this convoy will mistake it for fear, Grand Master. But the people outside may tel
THEY'VE ALREADY CONVICTED ME
The first sound Ethan noticed was not the shouting. It was the repeated thud of something striking metal somewhere ahead of the convoy. His armored vehicle slowed, and he lifted his eyes from the phone in his hand, where Selene’s name still sat above the last unanswered messages from the hospital.“Why are we slowing down?” Ethan asked, turning toward the Tribunal commander seated across from him. His voice was controlled, but the man could hear the impatience beneath it. “Mira already told me the headquarters was surrounded. I didn’t come all this way to stop three streets away.”The commander checked the communication device clipped near his chest. “The roads ahead are almost completely blocked, Grand Master. Our forward vehicles are trying to move through without provoking the civilians.” He glanced through the darkened window. “There are far more people here than we were told to expect.”“Keep moving until we physically cannot,” Ethan replied. He placed his phone beside him and lo
STAY EXACTLY WHERE YOU ARE
Lorne turned toward the doctor. “What is that?”The doctor froze. “What do you mean?”Lorne pointed toward Selene’s neck. “Those blue veins. Were they like that before?”He leaned closer without touching her. “I was standing in this room earlier,” he added. “I don’t remember seeing them.”The doctor’s eyes moved briefly toward the monitor. “Changes can happen quickly when a patient is unstable,” he said, but the answer came too quickly to sound reassuring.The doctor looked at Selene, and his face changed for barely a second. It was a small reaction, but Lorne noticed it immediately. The man swallowed before moving closer, pretending to study the area.“It could be several things,” the doctor said. “Her body has been through considerable stress, and sometimes changes in circulation or physical strain can make veins appear more visible.”Lorne did not know enough medicine to challenge the explanation itself, but he knew how confident men behaved when they believed their own words. The
THE CHOICE HE COULDN'T ESCAPE
“Yes,” the doctor answered carefully. “That remains possible. She needs continued observation, and any change must be handled immediately.”That destroyed the easiest excuse Ethan could have used to walk away. He returned to Selene’s bedside and took her hand, while another vibration came from his phone. For years he had faced wars, political enemies, business attacks, and men who wanted him dead, yet he had always known which direction to move.“This time I don’t know what to do,” Ethan admitted, his voice low. “Xavier Group needs me, but so does she. And the person I need to speak to most is the same woman I was furious with a few hours ago.”Lorne remained near the door while Ethan finally rose from the chair. For a moment, it seemed he had made his decision. He looked toward the exit, thinking of Mira, the trapped employees, Adrian Aurelion, Victor Draven, Titan Crest, and the angry crowd waiting outside the headquarters.Then he looked back at Selene.Her warning returned to him
HIS WIFE OR HIS EMPIRE
Mira did not end the call immediately. “We will hold the headquarters together as long as we can, Master Ethan,” she said, and the noise behind her rose again as people shouted somewhere inside Xavier headquarters. “But there is something else you need to know before you come. A delegation has arrived and they are demanding to speak with you personally.”Ethan frowned. “A delegation? In the middle of a riot?” he asked. His eyes remained on Selene while his fingers tightened around the phone. “Who would come to Xavier headquarters tonight knowing what is happening there?”“Adrian Aurelion and Victor Draven are here,” Mira replied. “Both presidential candidates came with security. Adrian says Lionel’s death concerns him personally, and there are also senior representatives from Titan Crest Logistics. They want answers about Casper and Janet Yulian.”Ethan’s expression hardened. Lionel’s relative, two presidential candidates, and representatives of the Yulian business empire had all gath
BEFORE EVERYTHING FALLS
“Were you responsible for those assassinations?” she asked. “I need your answer as Ethan, not as Chairman of Xavier Group and not as Grand Master.”“No,” he answered. “I didn’t order those deaths.”“I will need to believe more than that,” Mira replied, her voice steady despite the tension. “Did you authorize anyone to deal with any of those people? Was there an older instruction someone could have interpreted that way? Is there an operation connected to you that I don’t know about?”Ethan’s eyes narrowed. He understood why she needed certainty, but understanding did not make the question less insulting. “I said no, Mira,” he replied. “Do you believe I would sit beside my unconscious wife while secretly sending people across Verdanis to murder five public figures?”“I’m not accusing you,” Mira said. “I’m standing inside a building being attacked because thousands of people already have. If I am going to defend you and tell others this is a lie, I need to know there isn’t something hidd
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