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CHAPTER SEVENTY FOUR: Shadows
The room was too quiet for a place with such bloodied history.A place that seemed beneath the earth, hidden below a defunct observatory on the outskirts of the city, beyond the reach of cameras or casual eyes. The air was crisp, the walls thick, and the furniture minimal. Three high-backed chairs faced each other in a perfect triangle, surrounding a table of blackened steel, smooth and spotless.No names were used here. No files were carried. Only memory and power came through the door.They arrived without sound.The first wore a charcoal coat and thin gloves, face obscured in shadow.The second leaned heavily on a polished cane, though his voice never hinted at weakness.The third one still, sharp, and bare-handed carried nothing but silence and cold eyes.When they all had settled, the lights above dimmed slightly. The silence lingered like ceremony.Then the one with the cane broke it.“Brown is slipping.”The second nodded once. A single movement, but heavy in implication.“It w
SEVENTY THREE: Dangerous Ambush
The rain began just before midnight. A steady drizzle that turned the city streets into reflection of blurred lights and secrets.Davis hated late-night meetings, but Victory had insisted. “Neutral ground,” he’d said, pointing to a secluded private club near the harbor. “Somewhere quiet. Somewhere we won’t be followed.”They've decided to see it as an internal attack,not paying any attention to any significant information linking it to an external attack.To them,if everything plays well as they are trying to prepare for,They could exclusively get the whole Empire.They had no security with them, both men paranoid of being spied on, especially now. The board was fractured. Whispers of Kate consolidating more power circulated like a virus. Davis wanted to crush the resistance. Victory wanted to manipulate it. Both were tired of each other.The black Mercedes eased onto the side of the wet road. A second black car had followed at a distance, Victory’s driver dropping him just seconds be
SEVENTY- TWO: Kate's Dilemma
The silence inside Kate Brown’s office was never complete. A domineering and castigating feeling breath in the office.There was always something humming, from the hidden pulse of an empire built on ambition, secrets, and betrayal. The faint ticking of the old brass clock her father had left behind an heirloom, or maybe a curse. Or was it the occasional whisper of her own breath as she read and re-read the reports that made no sense.Today, it was the tension she heard most. The sound of something crumbling just beyond her reach.She stood by the window, arms folded, watching the city below. Everything looked normal, from the polished towers, traffic flowing like clockwork, but Kate had lived long enough in the Brown Empire to know that appearances were nothing but delayed tactics. Lies dressed in suits and marble.And lately, those lies were unravelling.Three canceled deals in under two weeks. Two investors vanishing. A quiet government audit in Spain. Foreign interest dying mid-n
Chapter SEVENTY ONE: Ambushing Brown logistics
The first report landed on Ven’s desk just after midnight.Bryan had forwarded it without comment — just a subject line:“You didn’t do this, did you?”Ven read it in silence. Then read it again.A mid-tier Brown subsidiary, Brown Logistics, had just suffered a massive loss after a last-minute international investor abruptly pulled out. A $22 million shipping deal dissolved overnight, leaving the company exposed and its stock dipping by nearly 7%.But Ven hadn’t touched it.He tapped the side of the tablet and brought up his own log of current targets. The subsidiary wasn’t one of them. It hadn’t even been on his watchlist. And yet the investor in question — a firm registered in Singapore — had only appeared three months ago and had rapidly bought influence… just to vanish before the closing date.He leaned back in his chair.“Someone else is hunting.”Bryan walked in, rubbing his eyes, still in a dark hoodie from an earlier field meet.“You saw it?”Ven nodded. “We didn’t leak any fa
CHAPTER SEVENTY: Strange Enemy
The room was dreadfully silent like a graveyard. Everyone expecting the grand order from the boss.A long black table stretched across the center of the chamber, its surface matte and fingerprintless. At the far end, sitting with the poise of a man who never rushed a decision, was Cyrus Vane.He didn’t speak right away. He never did.Six men and two women of his senior operatives sat around the table, each waiting for the moment he would lift his head. He was reading a single folder, thin but weighted with implications. When he finally closed it, he removed his gloves with exact, soundless precision, and looked up.“I want a fire lit beneath the Brown Empire,” he said quietly.The words didn’t boom, but they echoed with effect.Across from him, Mina Odoru, his intelligence chief, leaned forward. “Your confirmation, sir?”Cyrus nodded once.“The entire empire,” he added. “From the board to the last shadow subsidiary in . I want the empire destroyed.He turned to his left. “Lucan?”“Yes
CHAPTER SIXTY NINE: Shifting The Empire
Ven stood in front of the glass board, marker in hand, circling the name of a mid-tier shareholder with a practiced calm. The strategy was unfolding piece by piece, like a master chessboard, and he was finally moving into the middle game.Bryan leaned against the far wall, arms folded, watching the symbols and names being linked with colored lines. “Victory and Davis have spent the last two days throwing audits at Kate’s hotel division. She pushed back this morning. Legal’s getting involved.”Ven didn’t look away from the board. “Good. It keeps their focus on each other.”He stepped back and scanned the latest additions. Red for Davis, blue for Victory, green for Kate, and grey for unknown players. Dozens of threads snaked between names, some with dotted lines, proof of rumors, not facts and others with thick arrows leading to a single bold circle in the middle: Brown Empire and the Board of Directors.Daniella entered, dropping a flash drive onto the table.“Felix Marron,” she said.
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