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Chapter 111: Adrian's Advice

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The shredder in Liam's home office had long since gone silent, but the confetti of legal documents still sat in the bin, a pile of white, jagged promises he had made to himself in the dark.

I'm firing the lawyers. I'm asking for permission.

He had done it. He had gone to Aurora. He had been welcomed into the penthouse, into the warmth of a Saturday morning cartoon session.

But now, it was Monday.

The warmth had evaporated, replaced by the cold, hard light of the boardroom.

Liam sat at the
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    The vibration against Ethan’s thigh was soft.Bzzt.It wasn't the long, angry buzz of a phone call. It was the short, stuttering pulse of a warning.Ethan sat perfectly still in the velvet chair. His hands were folded on the table, just like Isabella’s. He tried to keep his face blank, the way Uncle Marcus had taught him when they played poker with pretzels. Don't let them see your cards, kid.But his heart was beating so hard he thought Isabella could hear it.Bzzt.Another one.Ethan knew what that meant. He played games on his iPad. He knew the warnings.Low Battery. 20%. Or maybe 10%.He had been recording for over an hour. Audio files were big. They ate battery. And he hadn't charged his phone since last night because he had fallen asleep reading The Hobbit to River.He squeezed the worry stone in his left pocket. He squeezed the phone in his right pocket. It felt warm. Too warm. Like it was working too hard."You're fidgeting," Isabella said.Ethan froze.Isabella was refilling

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    The tea in the china cup had gone cold.Ethan looked at the dark liquid. It reflected the single, battery-powered lantern sitting on the table, a tiny artificial sun in a universe of shadows.Across from him, Isabella Voss was refilling her own cup. She poured with a steady hand, the stream of tea perfect and graceful, as if she weren't sitting in a rotting warehouse in Queens, plotting the destruction of his family.Ethan shifted in the velvet chair. His legs didn't reach the floor. He pressed his heels against the chair legs to stop them from shaking.Be a spy, Uncle Marcus had told him once, when they were playing hide-and-seek. Spies don't wiggle. Spies wait.Ethan touched the phone in his pocket. It was still there. Still humming with the silent vibration of the recording app.He looked at Isabella. She looked like a witch from a fairy tale who had dressed up as a queen."You're quiet," Isabella said. She took a sip of tea. "Henry was quiet when he was plotting. Are you plotting,

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    The warehouse district in Queens smelled of wet cardboard, diesel fumes, and secrets.Ethan Vale-Cross stood on the corner of a cracked sidewalk, the hood of his navy puffer jacket pulled up against the biting wind. The sky was the color of a bruise—purple and gray and swollen with rain that hadn't fallen yet.He wasn't supposed to be here.He was supposed to be at the robotics camp in Manhattan. He had told the driver, Russo, that the session ran late. He had told the instructor he was getting picked up early by his uncle. He had slipped out the back door, walked three blocks, and used the prepaid debit card he had saved his allowance for to hail a yellow cab.It was the first time he had ever been in a taxi alone. The driver hadn't even looked at him, just grunted when Ethan gave the address he had found on his father's desk.1402 Borden Avenue.The address was written on a sticky note stuck to the back of the embezzlement spreadsheet Liam had been staring at for days. Ethan had see

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    The offices of Vale-Cross Global hummed with the quiet, expensive efficiency of a machine that had finally been calibrated correctly.It was 4:45 PM on a Friday. The sun was slanting through the floor-to-ceiling glass of Liam’s corner office, bathing the room in a warm, amber glow.Outside, the city was winding down for the weekend. Inside, the "Humanity Mandate" was in full effect—designers were packing up bags, logistics managers were logging off, and the air smelled of anticipation rather than adrenaline.Liam sat at his desk. He should have been packing up too. He had promised Ethan a round of Mario Kart before dinner.But his eyes were fixed on a spreadsheet.It was the Q3 preliminary audit. A boring, dense document filled with thousands of rows of operational costs, vendor payments, and supply chain margins."You're squinting," a voice said.Marcus walked in. He was wearing his version of business casual—dark jeans, a blazer, and boots that had seen actual construction sites. He

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