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CHAPTER 249
The press room was quieter than Jared expected, which in itself was its own kind of pressure.Rows of cameras sat aligned like disciplined witnesses, their red recording lights steady and unblinking. Behind them, analysts, investors, and selected media representatives filled the hall in a controlled arrangement that looked orderly on the surface, though the tension underneath it had already begun to tighten long before he entered.Jared stood at the podium with both hands resting lightly on either side, his posture composed, his expression carefully neutral in a way that suggested preparation rather than comfort. The room had seen him in different states before—dominant, dismissive, untouchable—but this version was different. This one was measured.And everyone could feel it.A reporter raised her hand almost immediately after the opening statement was delivered. “There are concerns that your company is experiencing coordinated instability,” she said carefully, her tone professional b
CHAPTER 248
It didn’t begin as violence.It began as certainty.Shelly had stopped treating Becky like a rival she could argue with and started treating her like a problem that had already been identified, classified, and only needed execution of response. When she found her that afternoon near the side walkway leading toward the academic block, she didn’t hesitate or wait for witnesses to gather.She simply walked straight in.Becky noticed her approach immediately, her posture shifting subtly—not defensive yet, but no longer relaxed either. The space between them had become familiar in a way neither of them had ever agreed to.“You keep acting like this is accidental,” Shelly said coldly as she stopped just a few steps away. Her voice was controlled, but it carried an edge that suggested restraint was no longer voluntary. “Like you just keep showing up around him and it means nothing.”Becky didn’t respond right away. She studied Shelly for a moment, then exhaled quietly through her nose. “I’m
CHAPTER 247
The first alarm wasn’t loud.It was worse than that.It was precise.Inside Jared’s corporate command floor, every screen shifted at once, not into panic, but into synchronized red indicators that told a clearer story than any human voice could. Data streams that had been stable only hours earlier now fractured into cascading exposure points, as if someone had opened sealed vaults across multiple systems simultaneously and simply walked away.A junior analyst was the first to speak, his voice tight with disbelief as he leaned forward over his terminal. “Sir… we’ve got a full breach event across three internal clusters. Confidential archives are being accessed externally.”Another voice followed almost immediately, sharper now. “No, it’s not just access—it’s export. Someone is pulling entire datasets out in structured batches. This isn’t theft in fragments. It’s extraction.”Jared stood still at the center of the room, his posture unchanged, but his focus had narrowed to a dangerous cl
CHAPTER 246
Becky found Jared near the quieter edge of the administrative courtyard where the campus noise dulled into distant echoes of movement and conversation. He wasn’t surrounded by anyone, which made the distance between his presence and everything else feel even more deliberate, as if space itself had been negotiated around him without consent. He stood with one hand in his pocket, the other holding a tablet angled slightly downward, though his attention wasn’t truly on it.It shifted the moment she approached.Not fully toward her, not immediately, but enough to acknowledge her presence without breaking whatever internal thread of thought he had been following.“Are you responsible for this?” Becky asked directly, stopping a few steps away from him.There was no hesitation in her voice, only exhaustion layered beneath the question, as if she had already considered every possible answer and none of them had been acceptable.Jared didn’t look up right away. When he finally did, his express
CHAPTER 245
The quiet inside Jared’s private analysis room felt heavier than usual, not because anything was missing, but because everything had become too structured to ignore. Lines of data moved across the curved screens in controlled streams, each one representing financial activity that, on the surface, looked fragmented and unrelated. But Jared had stopped trusting surface-level chaos days ago.He stood with one hand resting lightly on the edge of the console, his eyes moving steadily from one projection to the next. Offshore transfers. Shell companies. Micro-transactions routed through layered intermediaries that dissolved ownership the moment it was traced.Nothing was accidental. Nothing was rushed. It was precise.“They’re not reacting,” one of his analysts said carefully, adjusting the timeline display. “This isn’t defensive trading. It’s structured depletion. Whoever is doing this knows exactly how long they can sustain pressure before triggering instability.”Jared didn’t look away f
CHAPTER 244
The courtyard had not yet recovered from the tension of the previous encounter when it began again, this time with no warning and no audience expectation that things would escalate so quickly. Becky had only just stepped away from the edge of the walkway when Shelly returned, no longer accompanied by hesitation or restraint, but with a kind of focus that made her presence heavier than before.Becky noticed her approach immediately and slowed her steps, her expression tightening slightly as she realized Shelly was not here to continue a conversation. The space between them closed fast, too fast for it to feel accidental, and before anyone nearby could properly react, Shelly reached out and grabbed Becky’s arm.“You think I’m joking?” Shelly said sharply, her voice cracking slightly with frustration as she pulled her closer. “You think this is just some campus drama you can ignore?”Becky’s eyes dropped briefly to Shelly’s hand before she pulled her arm back with controlled force, her t
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