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Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Woman Who Burned the World

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By the time the sun rose over three continents, the world had begun to tilt.

It didn’t look like chaos at first.

It never did.

Markets opened late.

Servers lagged.

Private flights were grounded for “maintenance.”

Banks blamed “synchronization errors.”

But in rooms without windows—rooms where men and women who never appeared on any list made decisions—panic spread like a virus.

Aria Cross had stopped asking permission.

Elijah stood frozen before the wall of screens in the war room.

“This isn’t possible,” he murmured.

Aria didn’t look at him. She was calm. Focused. Almost serene.

“Possible,” she corrected, “was never the standard. Control was.”

On the screens, red alerts pulsed.

* Offshore tax havens locked

* Shell companies exposed

* Private foundations frozen

* Trusts older than governments suddenly under audit

Elena swallowed. “These entities fund entire regimes.”

“Yes,” Aria replied. “Which is why they should’ve never touched Damian.”

Her fingers moved across the tablet—precise, rut
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