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Chapter Hundred - Eighteen

Author: Andrea Katie
last update Last Updated: 2025-09-25 09:03:20

The room was dark except for the glow of three screens, their shifting light painting Leo’s face in hues of blue and green. Outside, the neighborhood had gone quiet — no traffic, no chatter, no footsteps in the hall. It was past midnight, but Leo thrived at these hours, when the world finally gave him silence.

His room was a strange reflection of himself: the chaos of a child and the order of a strategist. A toy robot missing one arm sat beside neatly stacked notebooks labeled in his precise block handwriting: “Share Acquisition,” “Coding Scripts,” “Probability Trees.” Empty soda cans and candy wrappers cluttered the edge of his desk, but right next to them sat a perfectly balanced chess set frozen mid-game, his side one move from checkmate.

He adjusted his headset, cracked his knuckles, and leaned back into the chair that was slightly too big for him. His voice was still boyish when he muttered aloud — a habit of focus.

“Win the tournament. Secure the prize. Convert to shares. Gro
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