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Chapter Nine: Elena
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2026-06-10 13:14:23
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Six Months Of You Chapter Fourteen: After
#LENA Three weeks later the investigation produces its first formal finding. Marcus Hale accepts a cooperation agreement. Richard Cross retains counsel and issues no public statement. Cross Capital is placed under regulatory review pending the investigation outcome. The merger is formally withdrawn. I find out from Priya who finds out from a school wide email that the Westbrook gymnasium naming rights are under review pending the investigation into Cross Capital's conduct. I read that line twice. Then I close my laptop and I go to practice. I have a conservatory audition in two months. Not Paris yet, that comes later, but a regional program that leads there if you work hard enough and want it clearly enough. Professor Valdez thinks I am ready. I think I need eight more weeks. We have agreed to meet in the middle. I play Bach. The suite my grandfather taught me. The one that always sounds like a door opening in a wall you thought was solid. My phone buzzes on the chair. Landon
Six Months Of You Chapter Thirteen: Both Depending
#LENA He is at Common Grounds when I arrive. He has two coffees and he looks like someone who has been thinking hard all day and has arrived at something he is not sure how to say. I sit down. I take the coffee. I wait. "My father called his attorney this morning," he says. "Not about the investigation. About me." He looks at the table for a moment. "He is moving to cut me off entirely. Tuition. Living expenses. Everything. He filed the paperwork this morning." I look at him. "When does it take effect." "End of the month." He pauses. "I have four weeks of funding left." I think about that. "Football." "My scholarship covers tuition. Room and board is separate." He meets my eyes. "I can manage. I have savings. Enough to get through the year." He says it like someone who has already done the math and is not looking for reassurance. "That is not the part I needed to tell you." I wait. "The investigation is moving fast," he says. "Faster than Grace expected. Marcus Hale retained
Six Months Of You Chapter Twelve: The Scholarship
#LENA The academic review board meets Wednesday at nine AM. I walk in with three things. My dated draft files showing the composition's development across eight weeks. An email chain with Professor Valdez discussing the theoretical framework. And a one page document from Grace Okafor's office demonstrating that the misconduct complaint originated through a firm with documented financial ties to an individual currently under financial crimes investigation. The conflict of interest is explicit. The board chair reads the conflict of interest document first. She reads it twice. She looks at the other two board members. One of them I recognize as the deputy head who dropped the earlier review. She is looking at the table. The chair looks at me. "Miss Kato. This review was initiated by a third party complaint. Given the documentation you have provided regarding the complainant's conflict of interest, this board is required to assess the validity of the complaint's origin before proceed
Six Months Of You Chapter Eleven: Seven Forty Five
#LENA The attorney's name is Grace Okafor and she meets us in the lobby of her office building at seven forty two wearing a coat over what is clearly a very early morning and carrying a coffee that suggests she has been awake since Elena called. She looks at me. She looks at Landon. She looks at the folder. "Come in," she says. Her office is small and very organized. She puts on reading glasses and she reads every page of Elena's file without rushing. Landon sits beside me and neither of us speaks. I watch Grace Okafor's face as she reads. She does not react dramatically. She turns pages. She makes small notations on a pad. When she finishes she takes off her glasses. "This is thorough," she says to Elena. "Twelve years," Elena says. Grace looks at the trust document. At the blank line. At the restructuring clause. "You want this filled in and notarized this morning." "Before eight thirty," I say. "His father makes a call to the clinic at business hours." "You know that." "
Six Months Of You Chapter Ten: Monday
#LENA Landon texts me at six AM. My father knows about Elena. I sit up in bed and stare at the screen. How. I do not know. He called me twenty minutes ago. He knows she met with you. He knows about the folder. I get up. I dress. My hands are steady because I decide they are going to be steady. What did he say to you, I type. He told me to get the folder back. He told me if the folder reaches anyone with legal standing he will make sure my mother's treatment is terminated before any investigation can restructure the trust. I stop moving. He is threatening to terminate the treatment himself. Before we can protect it. Before the trust can transfer. He is not waiting for an investigation to freeze the assets. He is threatening to do it voluntarily. To cut his own wife's treatment to stop us from stopping him. I sit on the edge of my bed and I think about that. This is a man who will hurt his own family to protect his business. I already knew that. Landon has been living insi
Six Months Of You Chapter Nine: Elena
#LENA Elena Marsh is fifty three years old and she has kind eyes and the particular posture of someone who has spent years being careful. She meets me at a coffee shop twenty minutes from campus, Sunday morning, no Landon. He arranged it and stepped back the way I asked. I am at the table first. She walks in, finds me, sits down, and looks at me for a full ten seconds before she says anything. "You are younger than I expected," she says. "You are exactly what I expected," I say. Something shifts in her expression. Close to a smile. "Landon said you were direct." "He also said you have been waiting twelve years for the right person to give a file to." "I have been waiting twelve years for a reason that was worth the risk." She wraps her hands around her coffee. "Those are different things." I look at her. "What makes this reason worth the risk." "Because this time it is not just about stopping the merger," she says. "This time there is a boy who finally decided his father is w
Six Months Of You Chapter Eight: What It Was Always About
#LENA He is already at the table when I arrive. Small place off campus. Not Common Grounds. Somewhere without Westbrook eyes, which tells me he thought about the location before he suggested it. He has two coffees and a closed notebook and the look of someone who has been sitting with something h
Six Months Of You Chapter Seven: What Richard Cross Does Next
#LENA The letter arrives Friday morning. Not an email. A physical letter, sealed, delivered to the Westbrook scholarship office with a reference number and a formal header from a firm I do not recognize. The scholarship coordinator calls me in at eight AM and she has the look of someone delivering
Six Months Of You Chapter Six: Cassidy
# LENA She finds me on a Thursday. Not a message through Priya this time. Not a phone call from a representative. Cassidy Hale herself, in the corridor outside the science building, leaning against the wall like she has been waiting long enough to make a point. She is exactly what I expected. Pol
Six Months Of You Chapter Five: What Priya Knows
# LENATwo days after the hospital Priya shows up at my door with tea and a look that means the waiting period is over."Talk," she says."Leo is recovering. He is home. He is already complaining about the food which means he is fine.""I know about Leo. Talk about the other thing."I let her in. S
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