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CHAPTER 42: THE FALLOUT.

Author: Iamur_Light
last update Last Updated: 2025-08-21 17:59:25

Noah’s POV

The world had teeth. It didn’t bite gently, it tore, and Adrian was caught right in its jaws.

The morning after Mason’s arrest, the media frenzy hit like a hurricane. Every network, every paper, every online blog ran the same searing headlines, dragging Adrian’s name through the mud as though he were the architect of Mason’s sins. Old photographs resurfaced, boardroom whispers turned into bold declarations, and speculation bloomed unchecked into narrative. He was no longer a man but a scandal, an object for dissection, a symbol of everything wrong with wealth and power.

I saw the toll almost immediately. Adrian, who had once carried himself with an ease that made people stop and listen, shrank into silence. His phone buzzed endlessly, his inbox flooded, and though he tried to ignore it, I saw the tremor in his hands whenever he caught a glimpse of a headline. His face had grown paler in the span of hours, the dark circles under his eyes deepening with every sleepless nig
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