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Verdict
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2026-06-20 12:00:00Nikolai's Pov
There was silence for a while. I finally spoke up.
"A verdict. You are both looking at me like you have already decided something and you are waiting for me to confirm it. Like the pattern of solo meetings has already been judged and the conclusion drawn about my intentions."
"What have we decided. Lay out what you think we are seeing when we look at the choices you have made over the past days."
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Ace's PovI stood at the wall for a long time and then I went to my room and closed the door. I sat on the floor with my back against the bed.I did not cry. I was past the point where crying was the response my body produced to loss. I sat in the dark and held the weight of it and let it be what it was. The reality settled in layers that pressed down without relief.Daniel Reyes had spent twenty years looking for me. He had built a federal career as a mechanism to find his son. He had stopped a live broadcast the moment I asked him to.He had agreed to drop a twenty year case in exchange for a relationship that had lasted exactly two conversations. The loss carried a specific kind of finality that refused to soften.The Syndicate had killed him and used my name to do it. That part was deliberate provocation designed to force a reaction.I
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Nikolai's PovThere was silence for a while. I finally spoke up."A verdict. You are both looking at me like you have already decided something and you are waiting for me to confirm it. Like the pattern of solo meetings has already been judged and the conclusion drawn about my intentions.""What have we decided. Lay out what you think we are seeing when we look at the choices you have made over the past days."Ace looked at both of us. "That I am going to join them. That the meetings and the information and the distance over the past two days means I am actually considering becoming what the Syndicate wants me to become. That the infiltration is shifting into genuine alignment on my side and the original plan is fading."Neither of us said anything immediately, letting the accusation hang."I am not. I am doing exactly what we agreed to at the s
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