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Chapter 361
“‘No problem, Father. No problem at all.’” Those were Raymond’s words after his father gave him one final look and then walked away.The door shut behind him with a muted, expensive click, and the room seemed to exhale. For a few seconds Raymond kept the same solemn expression on his face, as if his father might somehow still be watching through the walls. Then, gradually, the performance dropped away.A smile spread across his face.It began at one corner of his mouth, then widened into something smug and glittering. He leaned back against the pillows, ignoring the ache in his body, and let the news settle over him in the way wealth and power always had—less as something to be earned than something that confirmed what he already believed about himself.Global Investment.Even the name sounded heavy. Important. World-sized.He repeated it softly under his breath once, as though tasting it.If that contract came through and in Raymond’s mind it already had—everything would change. Or a
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Then he delivered the part that mattered most.“Because if I find out that you have done anything anything at all—that brings this family into the public eye for the wrong reasons while we are this close to something this important, I will do more than get angry.”Raymond said nothing.His father looked directly into his eyes.“I will make sure you lose everything.”That landed.Raymond's expression changed with it not dramatically, but enough. Enough for his father to know the words had found their target.“I mean exactly what I am saying,” his father went on. “Everything I have bought under your name. Everything I have transferred under your name. Every property, every account, every advantage, every convenience you currently enjoy because you happen to be my son—I will take them all away.”His tone did not rise, It did not need to.The threat was made more severe by the absence of theatrics. This was not a father speaking in temper and reaching for exaggerated punishment. This was
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The change in Raymond was immediate.The moment the words **Global Investment** left his father's mouth, it was as if everything else in the room the nurses, the disgrace, the lecture, the threat of discharge, even his own recent humiliation fell away. His expression transformed so quickly that it would have been almost comical if his father had been in any mood to find comedy in him.Raymond's eyes widened, then he smiled.Then, with the sudden energy of a man who had just been handed exactly the kind of news his mind was built to worship, he pushed himself up straighter from where he had been seated and nearly rose in full before the discomfort in his body reminded him he was still not entirely well.“Wow,” he said.The word came out with genuine delight.“Wow. This is good news.”He laughed once short and breathy, almost unbelieving.“Now I understand,” he said quickly. “Now I see why you came in here looking like that. Now I see why you were so excited.” His grin widened. “And no
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His voice, when he spoke, was colder than before.“Because you are not fully fine,” he said, “that is the only reason you will not receive a very clean slap from me today.”Raymond exhaled, just once, almost imperceptibly.His father saw it and hated it.“Do not mistake this restraint for approval,” he continued. “And do not mistake it for weakness. This attitude of yours this rotten, good-for-nothing attitude of yours has to stop. It has to stop now.”He pointed at him.“I will never allow this kind of nonsense to continue. Never. Because if it does, you know very well what will happen, and I will not take it lightly with you. Not now. Not when our family's reputation is about to rise higher than it has ever risen. Not when our family's dignity is on the verge of entering a new level entirely.”That got Raymond's attention, It showed instantly.The defensiveness did not disappear, but curiosity moved through it. Raymond had always responded to the scent of advantage, the suggestion o
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Raymond's father was still breathing hard.Not visibly he was too disciplined a man to allow the full extent of his anger to show itself in something as crude as ragged breath but there was tension in him, unmistakable and alive, tension in the set of his shoulders, in the way his jaw locked and unlocked, in the slight flare of his nostrils when he looked at his son.The room itself seemed to feel it.Hospitals always carried a certain kind of silence, but this silence had become personal. Tense. Heavy. The nurses had slipped out with grateful haste the moment Raymond's father stepped fully inside and turned his attention toward his son, and now the large VIP room felt too quiet, too polished, too expensive for the ugliness that had just taken place inside it.Raymond, who only moments ago had looked smug in his own reckless entitlement, now sat with that brittle, defensive stiffness of a man who knew he had been caught and had already begun looking for a way to reduce the size of hi
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The automatic door to the VIP recovery room slid open with a soft mechanical sound.Raymond's father stepped inside—and stopped.For one brief, suspended second, the scene in front of him did not fully register. His mind saw it before it understood it: the half-drawn curtains, the disordered bed sheets, one nurse stepping back too quickly, another fumbling with the buttons of her uniform, Raymond half-upright on the bed with the wild, careless expression of someone who had been caught in the middle of something he had not expected to be interrupted.Then understanding arrived.And with it, disgust.Not the distant, abstract kind. Not the controlled disapproval of a father observing disappointing behaviour. This was immediate, physical disgust—the kind that tightens the jaw and hardens the eyes and moves through the body like a shock.Raymond was not simply being attended to by the nurses.He was grabbing at them.Touching where he should not have been touching.Pulling one closer whil
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