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CHAPTER SEVENTY ; No More Lies

Author: OPRAH JAE
last update Last Updated: 2025-12-17 06:22:28

No one spoke.

That was what Elena remembered most about the moment after the screen went dark, not outrage, not gasps, not chaos. Just silence. Thick, heavy, collective silence that pressed down on the room like a held breath.

The kind of silence that meant people were thinking.

The kind Helen had never prepared for.

The lights slowly brightened, restoring La Rivera to its polished elegance, but something essential had shifted. The room no longer felt celebratory. Conversations didn’t resume. Applause never came. Guests sat frozen in their seats, eyes darting from the blank screen to Helen, then to Harry, then back again—as though hoping someone else would explain what they had just witnessed.

Helen stood perfectly still.

If panic existed inside her, she did not show it. Years of discipline held her posture upright, her expression composed. She did not gasp. Did not protest. Did not reach for the microphone or attempt to justify what had just been revealed.

She smiled.

It was small. C
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