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CHAPTER 29- Lines forward

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last update Tanggal publikasi: 2025-12-20 01:23:09

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE — Lines Forward

The proposal arrived without ceremony.

No dramatic delivery. No urgent phone call. Just a neatly formatted briefing sent to Jesse’s secure inbox late one evening, marked Time-Sensitive, Strategic Review Requested.

Jesse read it once.

Then again.

Evelyn noticed the pause. “That serious?”

“Yes,” he said. “Because it’s reasonable.”

He handed her the tablet.

It was an expansion initiative long term, influential, and deliberately framed as collaborative. A cross-s
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