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CHAPTER 65 PART 3
For a long moment, Ethan did not move. He sat with his hands folded on the desk, staring at the closed laptop as though he could still see the list of names and dates through its cover.A year ago, he might have shouted. He might have called every employee into the conference room and demanded answers. He might have fired half the staff in a single afternoon just to feel that he was doing something.But he had learned since then that anger was exactly what his enemies wanted from him."Ethan," Marcus said carefully. "What do you want to do?"Ethan looked up. His face was calm, almost unnaturally so."Nothing," he said quietly.Marcus frowned. "Nothing?""Nothing that anyone can see," Ethan replied evenly. "Keep this discovery between the two of us. Do not tell the managers. Do not tell security. Do not change any passwords or lock any files.""If we leave everything open, they will keep taking information," Marcus said, his voice tight with concern."Yes," Ethan said. "They will. Beca
CHAPTER 65 PART 2
The next morning, the problem became worse.Ethan had barely sat down at his desk when there was a knock at the door. Tommaso, the senior engineer who had led the development of the new platform, stepped inside. He was holding his phone in one hand and looked deeply uncomfortable."Do you have a minute?" Tommaso asked quietly, closing the door behind him."Of course," Ethan said, gesturing to the chair across from him. "What is wrong?"Tommaso did not sit. He shifted his weight from one foot to the other, rubbing the back of his neck."I received an offer last night," he said finally, his voice low. "From a rival company. They want me to leave and join them as their head of development."Ethan kept his expression calm. "I see.""The salary is almost double what I earn here," Tommaso continued, glancing down at his phone. "They want an answer by the end of the week. I wanted you to hear it from me first. I have not accepted. I do not want to leave. But I thought you should know."Ethan
CHAPTER 65 PART 1
About a week after the attack, things around Ethan finally became quiet.The police were still looking for the attackers. Inspector Conti called every few days with the same tired update. They were following leads, checking vehicles and studying camera footage, but no one had been caught. The men who had come to kill Ethan seemed to have disappeared as completely as smoke.At first, Ethan found the silence harder to bear than the danger. He kept waiting for something to happen. Every unknown number on his phone made his chest tighten, and every car that slowed near the office made him look twice.But slowly, as the days passed and nothing came, he forced himself to breathe again.He returned his full attention to his company. It was the one thing he had built with his own hands, and it was the one place where he still felt in control.There was good reason to focus on it. Despite the chaos at the end, the technology demonstration had created a great deal of interest.The investors who
CHAPTER 64 PART 3
Ethan did not let her stop there. He leaned forward, his elbows resting on his knees, and began to question her again, slowly and carefully, the way Marcus questioned witnesses."Did you ever see John meet anyone else like that?" he asked. "Anyone who made him look the same way?"Clara shook her head. "No. Never.""Did John ever mention a man he worked for?" Ethan asked, his voice even. "A partner? Someone he answered to?""John did not answer to anyone," Clara said, almost bitterly. "At least, that is what he always wanted people to believe.""Did you see the man arrive?" Ethan pressed. "Did he come in a car? Did anyone come with him?""I do not know," Clara said, her voice growing tired. "I only noticed them when they were already sitting together. And when he left the table, I did not follow him to see where he went.""Did you hear any words at all?" Ethan asked. "A name, a place, a number?""Nothing," she said, pressing her fingers against her forehead. "Ethan, I have told you eve
CHAPTER 64 PART 2
Ethan was quiet for a long moment. When he spoke again, his voice was calm, but there was an edge beneath it that Clara could not miss."Why did you never tell me?" he asked.Clara looked at him, surprised by the question. "Tell you what?""About the meeting," Ethan said evenly. "About John sitting in a hidden corner with a stranger, looking frightened. You were my wife, Clara. John was already my rival. And you never thought to mention it?"For a moment, Clara's old defensiveness flared in her eyes. Then it faded again, and she let out a slow breath."Because I never considered it important," she admitted quietly. "Not at the time. It was one strange lunch, Ethan. One strange look on a man's face. People in this city have secret meetings every day.""With John Cavesh," Ethan said."With anyone," Clara replied tiredly. "I did not think about it the way you are thinking about it now. I had no idea that man would ever have anything to do with your life."She looked down at the photograp
CHAPTER 64 PART 1
For a moment, nobody in the waiting room moved. Clara's words seemed to hang in the air between them, quiet and heavy.Before your accident.Ethan felt something cold settle in his chest. He leaned forward at once, his eyes fixed on her face."Where?" he asked immediately, his voice low and urgent. "Where did you see him?"Clara did not answer straight away. She was still staring at the photograph, her fingers hovering over it as if she were afraid to touch the faded face."Clara," Ethan said again, more sharply. "Where?"She blinked and looked up at him. "With John," she said slowly. "I saw him with John."Lena drew in a quiet breath in the corner. Ethan did not move. Only his hands tightened slightly on his knee."Tell me exactly what happened," he said, keeping his voice steady. "From the beginning."Clara leaned back in her chair. She looked tired now, the anger drained out of her, and her eyes drifted toward the window as she searched her memory."It was years ago," she began qui
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