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CHAPTER 96 — Fault Lines
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Tangled in His Web CHAPTER 98 — Fault Lines
Power never announced itself when it shifted.It cracked quietly beneath your feet—and waited for you to notice too late.______________Lily — The Meeting She Didn’t RefuseLily didn’t tell Sebastian where she was going.That alone was a decision.She chose a neutral place—an unfinished art gallery tucked between two commercial districts, abandoned after funding vanished. Concrete floors. High ceilings. No cameras she could immediately spot.Katherine was already there.Standing near a pillar, coat perfectly tailored, posture relaxed in a way that suggested ownership without effort.“You’re punctual,” Katherine said.“I didn’t want to give you time to rehearse,” Lily replied.A flicker of amusement crossed Katherine’s face.“You always were sharper than Elara gave you credit for.”Lily didn’t take the bait.“Why now?” she asked. “Why reveal yourself to me?”Katherine stepped closer, heels echoing softly.“Because Alex suspects me,” she said calmly. “And Sebastian is acting independen
Tangled in His Web CHAPTER 97 — The Weight of Knowing
Knowledge did not arrive like lightning.It settled.Heavy. Persistent. Unforgiving.Lily felt its weight most acutely in the hours after leaving Alex.She didn’t cry.She didn’t panic.She did something far more dangerous.She started thinking three steps ahead.__________Sebastian’s House — Night DeepensSebastian’s house transformed after midnight.During the day, it felt like a sanctuary—controlled lighting, soft acoustics, neutral tones designed to calm rather than comfort. At night, however, it became something else entirely.A command center.Lily noticed it now.The way secondary screens lit up in rooms she’d assumed were decorative. The subtle hum behind the walls. The faint glow under doors Sebastian always kept closed.He wasn’t hiding his power.He was normalizing it.She sat on the couch with a book she wasn’t reading when Sebastian emerged from his study.“You didn’t sleep again,” he observed.“You keep saying that like it’s an accusation,” Lily replied.“It’s an assess
Tangled in His Web CHAPTER 96 — Fault Lines
Nothing broke all at once.That was the illusion people clung to—that empires collapsed with explosions, betrayals announced themselves with raised voices, that the moment everything went wrong would be loud enough to recognize.In truth, collapse began with silence.With things no longer aligning the way they used to.With trust shifting—quietly, irrevocably.___________Knight Enterprises — Late EveningAlexander Knight remained in his office long after the building thinned out.The lights of the city reflected against the glass walls, slicing his reflection into fragments. He stood with his hands braced on the desk, eyes fixed on a single data stream Melissa had flagged before leaving.It wasn’t dramatic.That was what made it dangerous.A pattern of micro-disruptions—too small to trigger alarms, too precise to be coincidence. The same supplier hesitation. The same intermediary firm. The same routing behavior.Different entry points.One architect.Alex exhaled slowly.“This isn’t
Tangled in His Web CHAPTER 95 — The Cost of Certainty
Elara Wainwright Carter had always trusted one thing above all else.Her certainty.It was the certainty that had built her alliances, crushed her rivals, and kept her standing when others fell apart under scrutiny. Doubt was a weakness she had trained out of herself long ago. Hesitation was a luxury for people who could afford to lose.This morning, certainty guided her hand again.And this time, it would cost her.____________Knight Enterprises — MidmorningThe executive floor felt different.Not louder. Not quieter.Sharper.Alexander Knight stood at the head of the long glass table, jacket off, sleeves rolled with deliberate precision. The screens behind him displayed operational data, supply-chain analytics, and internal audit progress—clean, restrained, factual.No panic.No cracks.Melissa stood to his right, tablet in hand, eyes alert.“They’re pushing a narrative,” she said quietly. “Not directly. It’s… implied incompetence. Strategic overreach. Emotional leadership.”Alex’s
Tangled in His Web CHAPTER 94 — The First Invisible Betrayal
Power never collapsed where people were watching.It failed in places no one bothered to look.SebastianSebastian did not rush.He never had.The mistake most people made about him was assuming patience meant passivity. They mistook silence for neutrality. They mistook distance for indecision.They were wrong.Sebastian understood something Elara never had.Power was not seized.It was reallocated.He sat alone in a private lounge several floors beneath a building that did not carry his name, scrolling through a sequence of figures that meant nothing to anyone without the right education—and everything to those who understood how empires truly functioned.Knight Enterprises.Not its face.Not its board.Not its press.Its arteries.Shipping corridors rerouted under emergency clauses. Insurance risk adjustments recalculated by third-party firms. Supplier confidence indexes quietly downgraded—not enough to alarm, just enough to hesitate.Sebastian leaned back slightly, fingers steepl
Tangled in His Web CHAPTER 93 — Fault Lines
All alliances failed the same way.Not with betrayal.But with realization.SebastianSebastian had always believed that Elara Wainwright Carter mistook patience for loyalty.That misunderstanding had served him—until now.He sat in the back seat of his car as it moved through the city, glass darkened, sound muted. His tablet glowed softly in his lap, displaying financial projections tied to Knight Enterprises’ secondary logistics network.Someone had interfered.Not enough to cause damage.Enough to leave fingerprints.And those fingerprints were not his.Sebastian disliked inefficiency.He disliked unpredictability even more.But above all, he disliked overreach.Elara’s specialty.His phone rang.Elara.He let it ring once longer than necessary before answering.“You’re escalating without coordination,” he said calmly.Silence.Then Elara’s voice—smooth, composed, faintly amused. “I don’t recall agreeing to seek your permission.”Sebastian smiled faintly. “You recall agreeing to a
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