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Third person's POV Officer Eve Dove sat in the waiting room, her laptop bag resting against her leg, watching corrections officers move through their routines with the kind of bored efficiency that came from years of seeing the same walls, the same faces, the same cycles of human failure playing out on repeat.She'd driven three hours to get here, leaving before dawn while the city was still dark and quiet. Mackenzie had made the call personally, pulling strings to get her this meeting on short notice. Astor Sinclair didn't take visitors anymore. Hadn't since his son Liam had walked out of the last visitation six weeks ago and never looked back.But Dove had leverage now. Richard Maddox's confession had opened doors that had been sealed shut. And she needed answers from the man who had built West Ark, who had orchestrated murders and money laundering on a scale that made her head spin, who was now sitting in a cage waiting to die.The door buzzed and clicked open. A corrections offic
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Third person's POV Richard stood up, his face flushing. "You don't understand what it was like. The pressure. The constant need to maintain appearances. To keep the money flowing. To keep all the plates spinning.""I understand perfectly. You're a coward and a murderer who sacrificed everyone around you to protect your precious empire." Jackson pulled out his phone. "The police know I'm here. They're watching this building right now. And I'm going to walk out of here and tell them everything you just told me.""Jackson, wait—" Richard took a step forward, and Jackson instinctively stepped back."Don't come near me. Don't call me. Don't text me. As of right now, you don't have a son." Jackson moved toward the door, his hand on the knob. "And when they come to arrest you, I hope you remember this conversation. I hope you remember choosing money over family. Choosing lies over the truth. I thought you are better than Astor, Liam's father. But it turns out you both are the same.""You ca
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Third person's POV Richard Maddox opened the door before Jackson's finger left the buzzer, like he'd been standing there waiting, counting down the seconds. He looked older than Jackson remembered from just a few months ago. The lines around his eyes had deepened into crevices. His hair had gone almost completely gray at the temples. The expensive suit he wore hung slightly loose, like he'd lost weight he couldn't afford to lose."Jackson." Richard's voice cracked on the name, and he cleared his throat. "Come in. Please."Jackson stepped into the apartment and immediately felt the weight of downward mobility pressing down on him. This wasn't the sprawling mansion where he'd grown up, with its marble floors and spiral staircases and rooms they'd never even used. This was four walls and expensive furniture that looked wrong in the smaller space, like artifacts from a life that no longer existed.The living room held a leather couch that had cost fifteen thousand dollars when it was new
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Third person's POV The city slid past the car windows in a blur of glass and concrete, the afternoon sun turning everything into a washed-out photograph. Liam kept his hands at ten and two on the steering wheel, his focus supposedly on the traffic but really on the man sitting beside him. Jackson stared out the passenger window, his reflection ghostly in the glass, and Liam could see the tension in every line of his body.They were heading to Richard Maddox's apartment, to a conversation neither of them wanted to have but couldn't avoid. The address was programmed into the GPS, counting down the minutes and miles until they arrived at a reckoning that had been building since Astor Sinclair went to prison two months ago.Liam had wanted Jackson to stay home. Had argued that morning that Jackson needed rest, that the stress of confronting his father could wait another day. But Jackson had shut that down fast, his voice sharp with frustration."I'm not staying locked up in the apartment
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Third person's POV Three Days LaterThe precinct conference room felt smaller than it should have, the walls pressing in as Liam and Jackson sat across from Mackenzie, Torres, and Dove. The fluorescent lights hummed overhead, casting everything in a harsh white glow that made the whole situation feel even more surreal. It had been less than two months since Astor Sinclair had been locked away, and already the empire he'd built was threatening to collapse and take everyone with it."Let me make sure I understand this," Mackenzie said, his fingers drumming on the table in a rhythm that suggested he'd heard a lot of bullshit in his career and was trying to determine if this qualified. "You're telling me West Ark is still active. That there are people threatening to restart operations and using you two as leverage.""Morgana Prescott made that very clear," Liam said. His coffee had gone cold in the styrofoam cup in front of him, but he kept holding it anyway, needing something to do with
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Third person's POV Liam stared at his phone screen in the quiet of his office, the late afternoon sun slanting through the blinds and casting bars of light across his desk. The address glowed back at him like a beacon: 142 Oakwood Lane, Riverside. It was a forty-minute drive from downtown, through winding suburbs where big money hid behind tall gates and manicured lawns that were maintained by crews who arrived before dawn and left before anyone noticed them.Harold Vance had retired there ten years ago, far from the glass towers of Sinclair Corporation, far from the schemes and the dirty money and the midnight calls from men who spoke in careful euphemisms about problems that needed solving. Liam had found the address through an old employee directory his father had kept in a locked drawer, along with other documents that painted a picture of Astor Sinclair's empire that made Liam's stomach turn.He picked up his phone and texted Jackson quickly.**Liam: Heading to Riverside now. Ad
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