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Chapter 140: Later that Night
Later that night.Somewhere across a quieter side of the Monte Carlo Gambling University Campus.Chloe sat alone in her dorm room, a small island of light amid the creeping darkness. A vintage brass desk lamp cast a warm, narrow glow across her cluttered workspace. The rest of the room was draped in shadows — the only other light came from her laptop, its screen flickering softly, washing her face in cold blue.A notebook lay open beside her, its pages crowded with scrawled diagrams and hurried annotations. Pen in hand, she hovered just above the paper, deep in thought.She was studying. But not textbooks. Not theoretical models. No — in front of her was something far more specific, more obsessive.A recorded gamble.On screen: Peter Donovan facing off against Noami. The match had long since ended, yet Chloe — known to most by her gambling alias, Noir — had watched this tape at least six times already. Probably more. She clicked the timeline backward again, freezing the frame on Peter
Chapter 139– Six-Pointed Silence and the Queen Crown
Round Six.This time, there was no introduction. No glib remark from the Chancellor. No dramatic reset. Just the faint sound of the wind pressing against the tall windows, and the distant tick of a grandfather clock in the hall.Peter hadn’t realized it, but everyone had stopped whispering. The crowd wasn’t holding its breath anymore — it had simply stopped breathing.Even the air seemed afraid to make a sound.Noir didn’t speak. She just waited.The Chancellor sat across from her like a man walking into his own execution — no illusions left, just grim resolve.He opened with 1. e4Not bold. Not strange.Just… standard.But even Peter could tell it wasn’t about strategy anymore.It was about pride.Noir responded with 1...c5 — the Sicilian Defense.A dangerous reply. Unforgiving. Peter remembered Logan once saying: “The Sicilian doesn’t forgive lazy moves. You either control it or collapse in it.”The Chancellor tried. He really tried.He played the Open Sicilian, fighting for the cen
Chapter 136 – The Fifth Flame
---“Round four,” the Chancellor said, his voice tight, “let’s make this one... memorable.”Noir didn’t respond.She placed her hand on the black pieces.Let him go first.The Chancellor opened with 1. d4A flexible, positional start.Noir mirrored with 1...d5What followed was a classical Queen’s Gambit Declined, the kind of opening Peter always struggled with—because it wasn’t loud. It was deceptive. Every pawn, every piece, every movement masked a dozen intentions.But Noir wasn’t playing defensively.She was luring.By move 6, the Chancellor played Bg5, pinning Noir’s knight.By move 8, Noir offered a pawn with c5, cracking open the center. The Chancellor accepted — and that’s when the game began bleeding.Move 10: Noir pushed e5, an aggressive pawn thrust. It looked like a blunder.Peter leaned in. “No… she’s baiting him again.”The Chancellor grinned for the first time in two rounds.He took the pawn.It was the mistake she was waiting for.Move 11. Noir traded queens.Move 12.
Chapter 136 – The First Game
The ceremonial chess clock buzzed softly as the Chancellor tapped it with a controlled flick of his fingers. The timer began — a ten-minute blitz countdown.Noir opened with e4.Classic. Aggressive. A Queen’s Pawn gambit. It was a declaration more than a strategy: I’m not afraid of you.The Chancellor smirked. He replied with c5 — the Sicilian Defense. Equally aggressive. A test of precision, prediction, and pressure.Peter stood at the edge of the room, spine straight, hands clenched behind his back. He had never seen Noir look like this before. This wasn’t the same young woman who used to joke with him during card games or leave cryptic riddles on his door. This was someone else entirely.Noir, the Queen.But even so, her eyes carried something different from the Chancellor’s — less sharp-edged malice, more burning purpose.Click.The Chancellor made his second move. Click. Noir mirrored it. Click. Click. Pieces moved with the rhythm of a ritual. Their hands moved like dancers, flic
Chapter 136 – Queen’s Gambit Declared
The room was silent.A silence so complete it felt sacred.The kind of silence found in cathedrals, war rooms… or places where the future was about to be rewritten.Word hadn’t even had time to travel. No buzzing crowd, no eager reporters, no cheering students. Just silence. Heavy. Intentional. Like the academy itself was holding its breath.Peter stood frozen just inside the hall, watching as Noir stepped up to the board, her coat already off, her sleeves rolled high, her expression unreadable. Across from her, the Chancellor looked more amused than annoyed, like a man indulging a child before bedtime.“Seven rounds,” Noir said simply, placing a single, obsidian chess piece—her queen—on the edge of the board. “If I win all seven, Peter stays enrolled. No conditions. No bargains. No loopholes.”The Chancellor tilted his head, eyebrow arched. “And if I win even one?”Peter leaned forward, holding his breath.Noir didn’t blink.“Then I lose everything. My seat in the Noir Clan. My power
Chapter 135 – The Queen’s Move
The Monte Carlo Chancellor’s Tower loomed above them like a black rook etched against the stormy sky. Peter had never been inside before — the gates weren’t barred, just... uninviting. Like the kind of place you didn’t step into unless summoned. And now, here he was, trailing behind Noir, the Queen herself, as she marched toward the lion’s den.She didn’t knock.She didn’t need to.The guards at the door recognized her instantly. One of them, a young man in a stiff gray uniform, barely managed to stammer out, “Miss Noir, the Chancellor is currently—”“About to be interrupted,” she said coolly.The doors opened.Inside, the chamber was exactly what Peter imagined — marble floors that felt colder than they looked, windows tall enough to swallow a cathedral, and in the center: a raised, circular desk with a throne-like chair behind it.There sat the Chancellor. Frank.Still in the same three-piece suit. Still playing his solo chess game. Still impossibly composed.He didn’t look up.“No
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