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My legs were shaking so badly I could barely find the steps as I walked down from the stand. The room felt like it was spinning, the faces of the reporters blurring into a wash of pale skin and flashing lenses. But then a hand caught my elbow—thick, warm, and solid. Roman didn't wait for the bailiff to clear the path. He stepped right into the well of the court, pulling my arm over his shoulder and guiding me through the heavy wooden gate before the press could even stand up.We didn't go to the public hallway. We pushed straight through the side exit Miller had left unlatched, into the concrete maintenance tunnel that ran behind the utility rooms. The moment the heavy steel door slammed shut behind us, cutting off the sudden roar of the courtroom crowd, my knees completely gave out.Roman caught me before I hit the floor, his back hitting the concrete wall as he slid down with me, pu
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"State your name for the record, please," the prosecutor said, her voice dropping into that quiet, rhythmic cadence meant to make the jury lean forward."Roman Sterling," Roman said.He didn't shake. He didn't look at the sketch artists or the row of reporters jammed into the back pews with their tablets balanced on their knees. He was wearing a plain gray suit that didn't have a label, his dark hair pushed back from his forehead, looking completely unlike the wild, broken boy Marcus had dragged out of the gala in handcuffs weeks ago. He looked steady. He looked like the stone walls of the quarry we’d just left behind."Mr. Sterling, what was your role within the network structure of Reed Global between the years of 2022 and 2025?""I didn't have an official title," Roman said, his microphone catching the low, raspy gravel in his throat. "Marcus Reed didn't put me on the payroll. I managed the offshore infrastructure. Specifically, the encrypted routing protocols that shielded his sec
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