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Xavier’s POVThe apartment was in Brooklyn Heights. It was rented under a name that didn’t connect to anything. The view of the Manhattan skyline from the window was almost ironic given that I was watching everything I’d built over there slowly fall apart in the press while the internet decided Morana Mortaine was their new obsession.I’d been watching it all week. Every article. Every comment section that buried my PR team’s statement in four minutes flat.I’d paid that firm sixty thousand dollars a month for three years and the internet destroyed their work in four minutes because Morana wore a good suit to her first board meeting and smiled at the right camera. I turned away from the window.The apartment was sparse. A laptop, case files, a whiteboard I’d bought from a office supply store two blocks away. Coffee I made myself because I wasn’t using a phone that could be tracked to order anything.The criminal complaint was moving. But my lawyers were good. Expensive enough to be ex
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Morana’s POVThe helicopter thing happened because of traffic. That’s what Tristan said anyway. Traffic was bad on the LIE and he had a dinner in the Hamptons. So apparently when you were Tristan Rothschild the correct response to traffic was a single phone call and a helicopter waiting on a midtown rooftop twenty minutes later.I stood on that rooftop in a camel coat with my hair doing something chaotic in the wind and looked at him.“This is insane” I breathed as if I wasn’t born into wealth.“It’s efficient” he shrugged and got in.I got in too because what else was I going to do? Stand on the rooftop alone out of principle?The view from the helicopter over Manhattan was something that shouldn’t be legal for regular people to experience. The city spread out below us like a circuit board and the water caught the last light and I pressed my face slightly toward the window like a child and didn’t care.Tristan watched me do it. I could feel him watching me do it. When I turned he wa
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Morana’s POVI found out I was trending on a Tuesday when Felix called me mid meeting and I declined it and he immediately texted: pick up your phone morana mortaine dot com is trending on twitter I am not joking.I excused myself from the meeting because he won’t pressure me if it’s not serious. I need everything I could to throw off Xavier Lancaster right now. He has been silent but I know he is watching. Getting my position as the CEO isn’t the end of my troubles. Making sure Xavier is off my back is. “What happened?” I asked.“Someone found your 2019 paper on regenerative cellular mechanics” Felix said and I could hear him typing rapidly in the background. “The one you published six months before you disappeared. They wrote a thread about it. How everything you predicted has basically happened in the last three years. The compounds, the market movements, the research directions. All of it.”“Felix—”“Morana it has four hundred thousand impressions. Academics are quoting you. The
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Tristan’s POVThe file had been in the bottom drawer of my private office cabinet since 2019. Before that it lived in a locked box in my apartment. Before that it was just a folder on my laptop that I told myself was competitive research.Reid found it while reorganizing the cabinet Thursday morning because I’d asked him to consolidate the Xavier documentation and he’d opened the wrong drawer.He didn’t say anything for a full minute. Just stood there holding it and reading the tab I’d labeled simply M.M in my own handwriting.I was at my desk going through Xavier’s legal filings and I heard the silence so I looked up.Reid was holding the file open. Looking at a newspaper clipping from 2017. To Morana Mortaine at twenty-two winning the pharmaceutical industry’s emerging researcher award. Her first major press. She was laughing at something outside the frame and her PhD was three months old and she had absolutely no idea that a twenty-six year old across the city had read her dissert
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Morana’s POVMonday morning I wore the Bottega Veneta suit. The deep brown one that made my shoulders look broader and my waist look smaller and my whole existence look like a threat. Heels that clicked against marble with authority I’d spent five years suppressing.I walked into Mortaine Patent at 8am sharp and the lobby went quiet the way buildings quieten when they understood something had permanently changed.The receptionist who last week had looked at me with cautious sympathy stood up so fast her chair scraped back. “Good morning Ms. Mortaine.”“Good morning.” I said and kept walking.The elevator ride to the executive floor gave me exactly enough time to review the restructuring plan I’d drafted on Sunday while Tristan slept and I sat at his kitchen island with Mrs. Thompson’s leftover and my laptop Gerald from the board was already in the corridor when I arrived. He straightened immediately with the expression of a man recalibrating which way the wind was blowing.“Ms. Mort
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Tristan’s POVShe fell asleep in the car twenty minutes outside Manhattan. Well that half sleep where your head keeps dropping and you keep jerking it back up and then giving up entirely. Her cheek pressed against the cold window and her fingers still wrapped around the folder in her lap. I drove the rest of the way watching her in my peripheral vision more than I watched the road.Which was a problem. A separate problem for a separate day.By the time we pulled into the garage she was properly out. Deep breathing and face finally relaxed in a way it almost never was when she was awake and running seventeen things simultaneously in that head of hers.I sat in the parked car for a moment. Morana Mortaine asleep in my passenger seat with dried tears on her face and her hair coming loose around her shoulders. I’d been watching her from a distance for years. Before Rothschild had a name worth saying out loud. Even before she disappeared into Xavier’s orbit and became Morana Greene and s
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