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CHAPTER 65
There were a lot of strange things about Kingston I was still getting to learn about. First, was the audacity of rivals to openly organize a meeting with someone actively trying to run them into the mud.Hale requested a meeting through his counsel, and made sure that every detail was carefully and duly documented. The physician’s report was on the table before the coffee was even served.It presented a case of advanced cardiac failure, it was irreversible, and looked more like a ticking clock that rendered any prison sentence irrelevant. Hale made it clear that he didn't want a fight, he simply wanted to fade away without the indignity of a steel cell.I didn't invite a crowd to the meeting. I brought Weil to handle the ink, Davis to verify the data, Constance Albright to serve as a witness to the dissolution of her former masters, and a high-ranking official from the Kingston regulatory board to ensure the records were sealed the moment they were typed.For two hours, Victor Hale d
CHAPTER 64
That same night, Vera had sent a documentation to me later that night. I read it all, my heart thumping as the documentation revealed everything to me.This was a thorough roadmap of Thomas Van Alen’s moral decay. There were two specific transactions which caught my attention, buried under layers of shell accounts, that constituted multiple frauds.I swallowed hard as I read through it, knowing that this all was more than enough to strip the Van Alen legacy of its remaining legitimacy and put Marcus behind bars for a decade.Hale had been holding a guillotine blade over Marcus’s throat this entire time and the dummy had decided to keep it all to his foolish self!I made the copies of the documentation myself that same night and decided that Helen wasn’t going to be my mediator this time around.I didn't take a security team to Marcus’s private address or even Sloane. This was personal and so I took a single folder and drove down the three streets myself.Marcus opened the door, his sh
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Sloane was like a ghost in the corridor and that was one thing I really loved about him. His arrival was so silent and swift that by the time I breached the medical wing, he had already established a three-point containment perimeter on my orders.Thankfully, my parents were untouched, safe and healthy. Patrick was dozing peacefully,and the steady hissing of the ventilator was the only sign of his struggle. Meanwhile, Elena sat in the corner, looking confused and terrified.I heaved a sigh of relief, but my anger was already brewing. This had been a warning, not an attempt. A simple, yet arrogant demonstration of just how far their reach went.I stood in the hallway until the hammering in my chest slowed down slightly. I didn't go in immediately because I couldn't bear for them to see the anxiety on my face."Two hours," I said to Sloane flatly, my voice choked with anger and relief. "Find the breach and bring whoever it is to me.”We didn't need the surveillance footage, the logisti
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The Meridian District permits were entirely wrong, but it all worked in the favor of whoever wanted me down and at this moment, I couldn’t pinpoint who exactly wanted it more.Julian had played it with a precision that was almost impressive to me. The corporate entity was clean, the filing was near perfection, and the timing was designed to turn my flagship project into a dead end.On paper, it would take a standard audit three weeks to trace the ownership back to his restructured holdings.But I didn't have three weeks, not even three bloody days!I had Davis and Weil on the line simultaneously,working their asses off to feed me all the right data at once. "Six hours," I said. "Break the corporate veil or don't bother reporting back."Davis tracked it in four hours actually, proving his efficiency to me once again. It took less time than I expected to confirm that the shell company was a direct, heavily insulated branch of the businesses Julian had been building while he let me beli
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I stared at the documents Elara had provided later that night and something felt awfully wrong about it. They were perfect, but that was the problem. They were too perfect. Every account number, every offshore shadow-path, every structural flaw in Hale’s operation lined up with an accuracy that seemed nearly impossible. In a war like this, nothing was ever that clean."Sloane has her in the hold," Helen said, her voice cutting through the silence of the library. She was standing by the door, watching me. "She’s safe, secure, and she has no way to signal the outside world. She's completely off the grid.""Pull the Brentwood collapse filings," I said, my voice sounding distant, even to my own ears. "Compare Julian’s asset liquidation from the last six months against these files. I want a cross-reference on every shell company he used to 'go broke.'"Helen squinted at me curiously for a while, then nodded and keyed the commands into the console. As the data showed on the wall screen, th
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Elara sat in the wingback chair, the shadows of the library stretching across her face, and for ninety minutes, she spoke without pausing.I thought she would, but she didn't offer apologies for her past or excuses for her current predicament. She simply began to tell me everything she knew of a nightmare she’d been dragged into.She went on to map out the operational structure of Hale’s network with a nervous, trembling note in her voice. She stripped down every layer, every instrument, every remaining active player who still held a knife to the city’s throat.She confirmed the name my father had whispered in the clinic, verifying it with a detail that made my stomach turn and made me feel sick. She also laid out the financial siphoning routes, providing two offshore account numbers that Davis’s algorithms had missed entirely. She explained the leverage Hale held over Marcus Callum too. Marcus wasn't a true believer in the GLASSWING ideology; he was just a hostage. Hale possessed do
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