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Chapter 40: Disappeared part-1
Author: Kashish
last update2026-06-24 20:24:26

The hall had not settled since Vivien's last words.

Two hundred people were still processing the image of Ken Norton and Peter Henderson on their knees on the Holden family stage when Vivien raised her hand again, a single clean gesture, unhurried, the way someone turns a page.

The side door opened.

Four bodyguards came through it, and between them, bound at the wrists and moving with the small, shuffling steps of a man whose legs had not fully decided to cooperate, was the fake Medical Saint.

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    Seven chairs around a table built for thirty.The room felt like a funeral where the body had not yet arrived. The walls were the same. The lighting was the same. The heavy oak table, polished by a century of hands resting on its surface during decisions that shaped a city, was the same.But the room was almost empty.Seven people sat where generations of power had once filled every seat. Their faces carried the particular exhaustion of men and women who had spent decades believing they were permanent and had discovered in the space of a few months that they were not.Edward walked in alone.He did not sit."Thank you for coming," the eldest member said. A woman named Margaret Hale, no relation to Catherine. She had served the Council for nineteen years and had been the only member to vote against Edward's imprisonment."I did not come for gratitude," Edward said."No. I imagine you did not." Margaret folded her hands on the table. "We asked for this meeting because we have a proposal

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    The building had no sign on the door.It sat in the center of Geneva's private financial district, surrounded by institutions that managed money for people whose names never appeared in newspapers. The kind of place where billions moved between breakfast and lunch and nobody discussed it over dinner.Sebastian Roe was waiting in a conference room on the seventh floor.He stood as Edward entered, his arms open slightly, the gesture of a host welcoming someone into territory he controlled completely."Edward." Sebastian smiled. "I must admit, I was not certain you would actually come.""You were certain." Edward walked past the offered handshake and sat down. "Otherwise you would not have booked the room."Sebastian lowered his arms. The smile stayed."This is not your city," Sebastian said, settling into the chair across from him. "The Holden name carries no weight inside these walls. Neither does your grandfather's legacy, your master's reputation, or the sympathy of a few dozen small

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