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Chapter 28: The Press Conference
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2026-06-19 06:25:19
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"I'll do it," Aria said.Damien looked up from his phone. The motel room's single lamp cast shadows across his face. "Do what?""Wear the wire. Meet Marcus alone." She held his gaze without flinching. "Victor won't talk if he sees you. He'll only speak freely when he thinks I'm desperate and isolated.""That's exactly what he wants you to feel." Damien stood, crossing the room in three quick strides. His hand found her arm, gentle but firm. "Desperate people make mistakes. He's counting on that.""Then I'll make him think I'm making one." Aria pulled the device from her pocket. The recorder sat cold and small against her palm. "Marcus called. He said Victor wants to meet. Just me. No backup.""Where?""The Half Moon. Where this all started." She clipped the wire beneath her shirt, positioning it carefully. "He wants to watch me walk into that bar alone. He wants to see if I'm brave enough or stupid enough to come."Damien studied her face. His jaw tightened. "You're both. That's why I
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"Tell me she's not working with him," Aria said.Damien stared at the photo on her phone. Elena smiled beside Victor at a candlelit dinner, both holding wine glasses, both looking relaxed. The image seemed intimate, comfortable, like old friends catching up over a meal. "I can't tell you that. I don't know the truth any more than you do.""You can't confirm it either.""No." He handed the phone back, his fingers brushing hers. "But the woman in that photograph doesn't look like a prisoner. She looks like a guest. Someone who chose to be there."Aria's stomach turned. The eggs she had eaten for breakfast threatened to come back up. "My mother wouldn't betray me. She wouldn't sit at a table with the man who kept her hidden for five years.""Your mother signed a contract selling your future before you could walk. She attended a Harrington gala years before you were born. She disappeared without telling anyone why or where she was going." Damien's voice stayed gentle, but the words cut de
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"We need to go public," Damien said.Aria stared at him across the motel room. Dawn light crept through the curtains, painting everything grey and tired. "You want to hold a press conference?""Victor already controls the narrative. Every headline is his version of the truth." Damien stood by the window, hands in his pockets, shoulders squared. "I need to tell my side before he buries us completely.""And what is your side?""The truth." He turned to face her. "My father was a criminal. I spent ten years cleaning up his mess. I failed in some ways. I succeeded in others. But I never stopped trying."Aria rose from the bed. Crossed the room to stand beside him. "They'll tear you apart.""Probably." His mouth curved into something that wasn't quite a smile. "But you'll be standing beside me. That makes it bearable."The press conference was scheduled for noon.Damien made calls from the motel bathroom while Aria sat on the bed, scrolling through news feeds. The stock had dropped forty p
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"The headline just dropped," Aria said.She held her phone toward Damien, screen glowing in the dim light of the car. The words blazed across the news feed: "Blackwood Enterprises Linked to Decades of Corporate Crimes."Damien's expression remained unchanged. His hands stayed steady on the wheel. "How bad?""Bad. They named your father. Listed victims. Mentioned the unsolved deaths." She scrolled further. "Victor gave them everything. The files. The timeline. The bodies."He said nothing for several miles. The highway stretched ahead, empty and grey beneath a cloud-heavy sky.Then his mask cracked. Just once. A muscle flickered beneath his eye. He gripped the wheel harder, his knuckles bone-white against the leather."Stock will crash by noon," he finally said. His voice came out flat, but Aria heard something beneath it. Fatigue. Grief. "The board will call an emergency meeting. Victor will offer to buy shares at a discount."Aria turned away from the screen. "You sound calm.""I've
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