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CHAPTER 103: Shadow Union
Author: Jejewiyyah
last update2025-08-17 05:20:54

The chamber was dark, but not silent. The low hum of an old ventilation shaft whispered through the corners like a ghost, the faint flicker of candlelight casting long, jagged silhouettes across the stone walls. Three figures sat apart, cloaked in darkness more profound than their hoods could provide. Their gathering was never casual, each meeting meant a shift, a decision that could redraw the balance of power within the empire they had been circling for years. It's indeed a very deep union everytime.

A large monitor sat on a stand between them, muted but playing clips of the news. Across the screen, the chyron blared the headline that had turned the Brown boardroom upside down:

“Alex’s son to appear on national television, vows to reveal everything about Brown Empire.”

Said one of the figures, the tone of a man who’d been forged in anger, his knuckles pressing into the table.

“Look at them,” he sneered. “Like children caught in a storm they never saw coming. The board is fractured,
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