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CHAPTER 301
The table fell silent for a moment.Ethan's face brightened almost immediately after reading the message. "That's perfect."Becky stared at him across the table as if he had suddenly started speaking another language. "How is that perfect?" she asked, genuinely baffled."It's a party.""Exactly," she shot back, throwing a hand toward him in exasperation. "That's the problem."Ethan looked completely unconcerned by her reaction. Leaning back in his chair, he took a slow sip of coffee before answering. "No, Becky. The fact that she's inviting you into her personal life is the point. People don't bring strangers into their homes. They bring people they actually want around.""That's your argument?" she asked incredulously."It's a very good argument."Unable to get anywhere with him, Becky immediately turned toward Jared, hoping for at least one ally. "Please tell me you're making more sense than he is."Unfortunately, the moment she saw the look on Jared's face, she already knew she was
CHAPTER 300
The campus café buzzed with the familiar rhythm of a normal afternoon.Students filled most of the tables near the windows, laptops open beside half-finished drinks while conversations drifted through the warm air in overlapping waves. Outside, sunlight spilled across the university courtyard, turning the damp stone pathways into bright ribbons that stretched between the academic buildings.Near the back of the café, Jared sat across from Becky, stirring his coffee absentmindedly while scanning messages on his phone. Even during quieter weeks, Diamond Global never stopped demanding his attention.Becky, however, looked far more distracted than he did.She had been unusually quiet for the past ten minutes, which Jared immediately recognized as a warning sign. Whenever Becky stopped talking, it usually meant she was busy overthinking something.Sure enough, she suddenly dropped her spoon into her cup with an irritated clink and leaned back in her chair."This is weird."Jared looked up
CHAPTER 299
Days slipped into one another with a deceptive sense of calm.Los Angeles University returned to its usual rhythm of lectures, club meetings, late assignments, and crowded walkways filled with students who had no idea how close they stood to something far more calculated than any of them could imagine. The storm that had once dominated every corner of Jared’s world seemed, for the moment, to have shifted its weight elsewhere.And within that quiet space, Becky kept her role exactly as Ethan had designed it.Natalie Stone, on the other hand, had become unexpectedly easy to be around.At first, Becky had expected resistance. Distance. Maybe even subtle suspicion that would make every interaction feel like walking on glass. Instead, Natalie moved through their conversations with an ease that made the entire process feel almost ordinary.They met after classes more often than not.Sometimes it was coffee.Sometimes it was walking through campus while talking about lectures neither of them
CHAPTER 298
Becky arrived at Los Angeles University earlier than usual that morning.The campus still carried the soft haze of overnight rain, the stone pathways damp and reflective beneath the rising sun. Students moved in scattered clusters across the courtyards, their conversations light, unaware of the silent tension tightening around the university from forces none of them could see.Becky, however, felt it immediately.Ever since she agreed to Ethan’s plan, nothing about the world around her felt ordinary anymore.She adjusted the strap of her bag while walking past the main academic building, her thoughts looping through everything Jared had told her the night before. Natalie Stone’s file had been burned into her memory more than she cared to admit, not because of who she was, but because of what she represented.A doorway.A fragile one.And someone dangerous stood on the other side.Becky exhaled quietly as she turned down the corridor leading toward the student library wing. Ethan had k
CHAPTER 297
The office grew quieter after Ethan’s discovery.Not calmer.Just sharper.The holographic display continued glowing across the center of Jared’s executive office while Natalie Stone’s university file remained suspended above the table in rotating layers of personal data, enrollment records, housing reports, and financial activity. Rain still pressed softly against the windows overlooking West Angeles, but neither Jared nor Ethan paid attention to the storm anymore.Because for the first time since Damien launched his campaign, they had finally uncovered an opening.Jared studied Natalie’s photograph carefully.She looked nothing like the image he had built in his mind whenever he thought about Damien Stone. There was no coldness in her eyes. No visible arrogance. No sign of the calculated malice her brother carried so naturally.She looked normal.Which made her dangerous in a completely different way.Ethan continued scrolling through the intelligence file while muttering quietly to
CHAPTER 296
The executive floor inside Diamond Global remained active long after midnight.Most of the lower departments had already emptied hours ago, but the upper security and intelligence divisions continued operating at full capacity beneath the cold glow of holographic displays and surveillance monitors. Analysts rotated through encrypted data streams while Diamond Security teams coordinated movement schedules for every member of the Diamond family across the state.Nobody treated the situation lightly anymore.Not after Howard Diamond’s convoy had been followed.Inside Jared’s private executive office, the atmosphere carried a quieter tension. The city skyline stretched beyond the massive glass walls while rain drifted lightly across West Angeles once again, turning the streets below into fractured reflections of red and white light.Jared sat behind the dark marble desk reviewing a collection of encrypted reports Ethan had compiled over the last two hours. Most of them contained the same
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