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Chapter 8-JAXON

Author: Xuccess
last update publish date: 2025-08-22 03:37:29

The bus spat me out onto the curb with the rest of the morning rush. Suits, heels, umbrellas—everyone moving like ants toward the steel and glass giant looming over the block.

Black Enterprises.

It never looked like a building to me. More like a warning. A polished monument built to remind the rest of us that the Blacks always won, no matter who had to bleed for it.

And still, my feet carried me closer.

Every instinct screamed to walk away, but my gut had already made the choice back in my
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