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Chapter 149: Nathaniel Chooses Transparency
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2026-01-21 07:18:21The documents lay open across the long table in the study, their pages spread like a confession Nathaniel had postponed too long. Market projections. Regulatory correspondence. Security briefings marked confidential. Names circled in careful ink. Timelines drawn with ruthless clarity.
Lillian stood at the doorway, one hand resting against the carved frame, unsure whether she had been summoned or simply permitted.
Nathaniel looked up from the table. He did not rise. He did not gesture her forward. For once, he did not control the moment with movement.
“You should see this,” he said.
Not should know. Not trust me. See.
She crossed the room slowly, aware that this space had always belonged to strategy, not conversation. She had
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The argument did not end with raised voices.It ended with silence.Not the brittle kind that demanded distance, but the heavy kind that settled between two people who had finally said too much and still not enough.Lillian stood by the window in Nathaniel’s study, arms wrapped around herself, watching the lights of Virex City pulse like a living thing below. She felt exposed in a way that had nothing to do with words. She had accused him of control. He had admitted fear. Neither of them had known where to place what came after.Nathaniel remained near the desk, one hand braced against its edge, his posture contained but no longer rigid. He had not moved to leave. That alone felt like a choice.“I am not trying to own you,&rdquo
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The argument did not begin loudly.It began with silence.They stood in the upper sitting room of the residence, windows dark with night, city lights scattered like restrained stars beyond the glass. Lillian had finished speaking several minutes earlier. Nathaniel had not interrupted her. That alone told her something was wrong.“You cannot keep deciding for me,” she said again, quieter now. “Protection stops being protection when it removes choice.”Nathaniel remained still. His jacket lay folded on a chair. His sleeves were rolled to his forearms, a habit that appeared only when his control required effort. His gaze was not on her, but on the floor between them, as if the distance itself demanded examination.“
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Lillian did not raise her voice.That, more than anything, unsettled Beatrice.They sat in the smaller sitting room at Celestine Heights, the one that overlooked the inner garden rather than the city. It was a deliberate choice. Fewer eyes. Fewer echoes. Beatrice always chose spaces like this when she intended to steer rather than confront.Lillian remained standing.She had learned, over the past months, that sitting invited control. Standing kept her spine aligned with her will.“You have elevated me,” Lillian said calmly. “Publicly. Repeatedly. You have praised me in rooms where praise becomes currency.” She paused. “I need to know why.”Beatrice folded her ha
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Lillian waited until the house settled into its evening quiet before she sought Beatrice out.Celestine Heights changed character after dusk. During the day it was ceremonial, full of measured footsteps and curated light. At night it softened. Lamps glowed instead of gleamed. Corridors held shadows that felt less like surveillance and more like memory.Beatrice sat in the small sitting room adjacent to the garden, a space she used rarely and never for guests of consequence. That alone felt deliberate. A fire burned low in the hearth, unnecessary for warmth in Aurelia’s climate, but comforting in its symbolism.“You asked to see me,” Beatrice said, not turning from the window.Lillian remained standing. “Yes.”
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