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CHAPTER 38 – A BROTHER’S BETRAYAL

Author: MJG
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CHAPTER 38 – A BROTHER’S BETRAYAL

(Damian’s POV)

The truth didn’t arrive all at once.

It crept in.

Like rot beneath polished wood. Like a hairline fracture spreading through glass until the shatter was inevitable.

Damian noticed it first in the silences.

The way Darius avoided his eyes.

The way conversations stopped when he entered rooms.

The way Althea’s name—once spoken freely—now carried weight, hesitation, consequence.

It was subtle. Insidious.

And it gnawed at him.

He stood alone in his office late that night, lights dimmed, city stretched beneath him like a living organism. The letter opener lay idle on his desk, beside a stack of documents he hadn’t touched. His thoughts circled endlessly around the same axis.

They know something I don’t.

The realization made his jaw clench.

Damian Navarro had built his empire on informati
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