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Chapter 70: The Trial

作者: TOBBY SHORUNMU
last update 公開日: 2026-06-17 17:05:23

The courthouse steps feel colder than they should.

Not weather-cold. Something else. Something sharper.

A press of bodies, cameras, and noise that doesn’t behave like normal sound anymore. It stacks. Layers on layers. Every shout overlaps the next until nothing is fully clear except one name repeated again and again.

Cassian Vale.

I notice him before the security line fully parts.

Cassian Vale walks like the crowd is already finished with him.

No hesitation. No rush either. Just controlled move
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  • THE BILLIONAIRE LAST LIE    Chapter 74: Vale Family Trust

    Cassian Vale didn't wait for the emergency board meeting to finish before forcing the private call through.The secure study where I had been working shifted into low amber lighting as evening settled over the estate. Beyond the floor-to-ceiling glass, estate security moved through the grounds in pairs, speaking quietly into earpieces.Something had changed.I felt it before Cassian Vale even spoke."Eva Monroe needs to leave the estate immediately."I looked up from the files spread across the conference table.The tone was wrong.A message flashed across my tablet from Vale Holdings' legal division.UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS ATTEMPTS DETECTED — FAMILY TRUST RECORDS UNDER REVIEWMy eyes narrowed.Then I looked back at the screen."What's happening?"Cassian Vale didn't answer directly.That was the first thing I noticed.The second thing was worse.Cassian Vale already knew exactly what was happening."Eva Monroe leaves tonight."I leaned back slowly, glancing at the documents covering the

  • THE BILLIONAIRE LAST LIE    Chapter 73: She’s Not Dead… She’s Not Who She Was

    The courtroom door seals behind me with a heavy hydraulic click that sounds too final for something still technically “in progress.” Inside the Valecorp forensic chamber, nothing feels still. Not even the air. It hums with layered systems running beyond visible control—feeds, corrections, and rechecks, all stacked on top of each other like the building itself is arguing with itself.I keep my eyes on the main interface wall.VALE-2 LEGACY ACCESS is already open.The label alone changes the room. Every analyst here straightens without meaning to. Even the ones pretending they’re not nervous stop typing for half a second, like their hands forgot what they were doing.Cassian Vale is not physically in the chamber, but his presence is everywhere anyway—through secured remote access, through authentication lines that keep stabilizing and re-stabilizing the system like it recognizes him before it recognizes anyone else.He doesn’t speak.The ex-fiancée’s identity file loads across three mi

  • THE BILLIONAIRE LAST LIE    Chapter 72: Identity Failure

    The chamber doesn’t feel like a room anymore.It feels like something sealed off from reality, held together by layered authentication gates and silent systems that keep rechecking themselves like they don’t trust their own existence.Eva Monroe stands just behind the forensic interface line, fingers resting near the edge of the control console but not touching it. Every surface hums faintly. Not loud enough to be alarming. Just persistent. Like the building is thinking too hard.Across the chamber, the VALE-2 archival recovery interface is already running.It shouldn’t be unstable yet, but it is.The ex-fiancée’s identity file loads clean for half a second, then it breaks.“DECEASED — VERIFIED CIVIL TERMINATION.”A pause, then it flips.“INACTIVE PERSONNEL RECORD — PENDING SYSTEM CONFIRMATION.”Another pause. Shorter this time, then something worse appears.“UNVERIFIED CONTINUITY BREACH — IDENTITY DISPLACEMENT ALERT.”A junior analyst exhales sharply. “That’s just corruption. Legacy

  • THE BILLIONAIRE LAST LIE    Chapter 71: The Record That Shouldn’t Exist

    The courtroom felt different the moment the judge called proceedings back in.Not quieter. Not calmer.Just… unstable in a way no one could quite name.The clerks tried again to pull the VALE-2-linked archive through the court system. I watched their screens from the witness side while my fingers stayed folded too tightly on the table. Every refresh made that same low error pulse crawl across the main display.Cassian Vale’s ex-death record opened, held for half a second, then broke apart.“VERIFIED — CIVIL DEATH CONFIRMATION.”Gone.“DATA INTEGRITY WARNING.”Gone again.A space where a human life was supposed to be recorded like a fixed fact.The prosecution leaned forward like they could force it into stability by staring harder. One of them muttered something about “technical corruption,” like repeating the phrase would make it true.But it wasn’t corruption. Corruption looked messy. This looked… structured. Like the system was trying different versions of reality and refusing to

  • THE BILLIONAIRE LAST LIE    Chapter 70: The Trial

    The courthouse steps feel colder than they should.Not weather-cold. Something else. Something sharper.A press of bodies, cameras, and noise that doesn’t behave like normal sound anymore. It stacks. Layers on layers. Every shout overlaps the next until nothing is fully clear except one name repeated again and again.Cassian Vale.I notice him before the security line fully parts.Cassian Vale walks like the crowd is already finished with him.No hesitation. No rush either. Just controlled movement through a space that is actively trying to swallow him. Valecorp security forms a moving barrier around Cassian Vale, but it barely matters. Reporters lean past them, phones stretched forward like weapons.“Cassian Vale—did you kill her?”“Is Valecorp hiding evidence?”“Did VALE-2 erase the footage?”Flashes hit his face in uneven bursts. White light, then shadow again.Cassian Vale doesn’t answer.Not even a glance toward the voices demanding something—anything—from him.I stand near the s

  • THE BILLIONAIRE LAST LIE    Chapter 69: The First Time I Defended Him

    What immediately stood out was not the presence of reporters or cameras, but the prevailing sense of certainty.Every screen throughout Valecorp's executive lobby displayed the same narrative. While the wording varied across networks, the conclusion remained consistent.Cassian Vale was facing allegations of murder, involvement in a cover-up, and the suppression of evidence.Although the headlines differed in their presentation of the details, they all led to the same conclusion.Cassian Vale was presumed guilty.I stood near the back wall, arms folded, watching another commentator dissect surveillance gaps connected to the ex-fiancée case.None of them knew the whole story.The problem was neither did I.Yet somehow that didn't stop anyone from acting certain.A security officer approached the executive elevators."Mr. Vale is moving now.”The room shifted as headsets crackled and personnel repositioned themselves.Seconds later, Cassian stepped out.In a dark suit, he looked exhaus

  • THE BILLIONAIRE LAST LIE    Chapter 52: Quiet Leverage

    Julian Vale withdrew quietly, returning to the operations floor. He resumed engagement with the staff, speaking in clipped, functional sentences. Department Head: “Production backlog reduced by 12% this week.”Julian: “Good. Keep margins tight. Prepare next week’s metrics,” reviewing project pipeli

    last update最終更新日 : 2026-04-04

  • THE BILLIONAIRE LAST LIE    Chapter 53: Measured Room

    Julian Vale settled back in his ergonomic chair, his fingers lightly resting on the edge of his tablet. The soft glow from the departmental summaries highlighted the sharp lines of his face. Every project milestone was meticulously logged, deviations marked, and updates dispatched through the secu

    last update最終更新日 : 2026-04-04

  • THE BILLIONAIRE LAST LIE    Chapter 51

    Julian Vale entered the main Valecorp operations floor with the same measured precision he had always carried. His gait was neither hurried nor deferential, each step placed deliberately, calculating the angles of sightlines, the spacing between desks, and the rhythm of staff movement. Heads lifte

    last update最終更新日 : 2026-04-03

  • THE BILLIONAIRE LAST LIE    Chapter 48: The Brother I Never Knew He Had

    Eva Vale POVThe gate swung open without so much as a knock.I stood at the edge of the entry hall when I felt the shift in the house—not a sound, no alarms blaring, just a subtle tightening in the air. The lights lining the walls changed their hue, and the camera above the west arch adjusted its

    last update最終更新日 : 2026-04-02
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