로그인ELON’S POVAdrian left forty minutes later.Not dramatically.Which somehow felt more dramatic for him.One moment he was leaning against the kitchen counter drinking expensive whiskey like a morally questionable cryptid, and the next he was buttoning his coat while the storm battered the penthouse windows.Before leaving, he paused near the doorway and looked directly at Fort.“You’re spiraling,” he said calmly.Fort didn’t even glance up from the documents spread across the dining table.“I’m working.”“No,” Adrian replied. “You’re avoiding.”I looked between them cautiously.Honestly, it felt less like a conversation and more like two dangerous men fencing emotionally.Fort finally lifted his eyes.“And yet you’re still here.”Adrian smiled faintly.“Unfortunately, I like you.”“That sounds like poor judgment.”“Usually.”Then Adrian’s gaze shifted toward me briefly.“Try not to let him isolate himself tonight.”Fort looked deeply unimpressed.“Elon is not my emotional support anim
FORT’S POVI disliked fear.Not because it made people weak.Because it made them irrational.And irrational people made mistakes.The problem was that The Circle understood leverage exceptionally well.Which meant the phone in my hand was not a bluff.By the time we returned to the penthouse, the rain had become violent enough to drown the city in silver.Elijah was in surgery under federal protection.Police had flooded the Harbor District.And somewhere in the middle of the chaos, Nathaniel Hale had vanished completely.Convenient.Very convenient.The elevator ride upstairs passed in tense silence.Elon stood beside me watching carefully without asking questions for once.Adrian remained near the back wall, expression unreadable.Still thinking.Still calculating.The moment the penthouse doors opened, I walked directly toward my private office.“Elon,” I said calmly, “go to bed.”He stared at me.“You cannot possibly think I’m going to sleep right now.”“Yes.”“That’s actually in
ELON’S POVThe moment the stranger uttered her name, everything shifted.Not with a dramatic flourish.Not in a loud, unsettling manner.But worse.Silently.Fort became completely still beside me, his body radiating a tension that felt sharp enough to crack bone.Rain pounded against the dockyard, each drop merging with the thick, stranglehold of tension that saturated the air, making it difficult to breathe. And suddenly—An unsettling realization dawned on me: there were vast, shadowy corners of Fort’s life that I hadn’t even begun to understand.“Especially the files connected to Evelyn.”The stranger’s voice was calm, almost chillingly so.Controlled.Like he had just dropped a lit match into a pool of gasoline, waiting for the inevitable explosion.My gaze flicked to Fort, instinctively searching for a glimpse of the man I thought I knew.His expression had turned cold, a chilling frost I hadn’t seen before.Not anger.Not irritation.This was something deeper.Older.And that,
FORT’S POVThere were very few things capable of genuinely unsettling me, but “The Circle” was one of them.Rain pelted relentlessly against the dockyard, drowning out the usual sounds of the night as I watched Elijah struggle for breath inside the confined space of the car. His face was pale, as if the life was seeping out of him with each labored gasp.Beside me, Elon noticed the shift in my expression almost instantly, his brow furrowing with concern and curiosity.“What,” he said, his voice laced with caution, “was that look?”I chose to ignore his question, focusing instead on the matter at hand.“Elijah,” I said sharply, forcing my voice to cut through the cacophony of the rain, “who in The Circle authorized this operation?”His trembling fingers tightened weakly around my sleeve, a feeble attempt to anchor himself to reality.“I never met them directly,” he managed to whisper, his voice trembling like a fragile leaf in the wind.Not useful.“Then who did?” I pressed, urgency cr
Harbor LightsELON’S POVI took an instant dislike to the Harbor District.The moment we drove into the waterfront area, the air thickened with an uneasy chill, and the vibrant skyline we had left behind seemed to vanish. In its place loomed rusted warehouses, their dark silhouettes punctuated by flickering streetlights casting ghostly shadows. An eerie silence enveloped us, a silence that felt heavy with unspoken dangers.The rain had begun its descent during our drive, starting as mere sprinkles but now pouring down in relentless sheets that blurred the windshield into streaks of silver. Fort, ever the relentless driver, pressed on without a hint of hesitation.“You know,” I ventured cautiously, my grip tightening around the door handle as the car took another sharp turn, “normal people usually contact authorities before plunging into what feels like the opening scene of a crime documentary.”Fort’s eyes remained locked on the road, unblinking.“We are contacting authorities.”“No,
FORT’S POVRecognition was a double-edged sword.Once you noticed a pattern, it clung to the edges of your mind like a stubborn ink stain—you couldn’t unsee it.As the city lights blurred and streaked past the windshield, a dense silence settled heavily in the car. Outside, the world whirred by in vibrant splashes of color, but inside was a cocoon of tension. Elon, his intense gaze fixed upon me from the passenger seat, watched with an unsettling mixture of concern and expectation. In the rearview mirror, Adrian’s eyes simpered with scrutiny, his arms crossed defiantly. Both men were waiting, a silent demand hovering in the air for me to break the stifling stillness.But I was lost in thought—a place where interruptions didn't just break concentration; they shattered it.“Nathaniel,” I finally spoke, the name hanging in the air like a dark omen.Elon's brow furrowed instantly, doubt etched across his features. “Your security guy?” he asked, his tone dripping with skepticism.“Head o
Elon's POV "I've heard through reliable sources that you have informations that I might find valuable in your possession. But if you must know, I don't ask for free...I offer entertainment in exchange for whatever you might be offering..."The moment I said that, Chen's eyes narrowed sharply, this
Elon’s POVThey didn’t take me far.Just down a corridor, through a side passage, and into a room that felt like it had never seen daylight.The moment the door slammed shut behind us, Everything narrowed int
Fort’s POVThe moment the lights went out, something in me shifted.It was the knowledge that something or someone a lot more dangerous than we can assume, wanted that package desperate enough to play dirty.An emo
Fort’s POVThirty minutes, My eyes flicked to my watch again.It had been Thirty Minutes.My jaw clenched slightly as I lowered my wrist, forcing my facial expression to remain neutral as another guest passed by me with a polite smile I didn&







