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Chapter 58- Threat

Author: Jechera
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— CASSIAN HALE —

The doors to Orion closed behind me with a soft hiss.

Too soft.

Too final.

The sound followed me down the corridor like an accusation, echoing in the polished marble halls of a building that had once bowed to my presence. I didn’t slow my stride, didn’t acknowledge the stares or the way conversations died as I passed. Control meant never letting them see the fracture.

I kept walking until the elevator doors slid open and swallowed me whole.

Only then—alone in the mirrored box of steel and silence—did my composure crack.

Just slightly.

My jaw throbbed.

A deep, pulsing ache that radiated up toward my temples. I hadn’t even realized how hard I’d been clenching it until the pain bloomed, sharp and insistent, like my body rebelling against the restraint I’d forced on it for the last hour.

Legal father.

The words burned like acid.

I stared at my reflection in the elevator wall. Immaculate suit. Crisp lines. Perfectly styled hair. The image of control. The image investors tr
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