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Chapter 24 - The Public Test
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Tangled in His Web CHAPTER 80 — The First Public Cut
The city learned nothing that morning.No headlines.No leaks.No whispers loud enough to ripple the markets.But inside Knight Enterprises, something fundamental shifted.Alexander Knight stood at the head of the executive floor, hands resting lightly on the conference table, eyes fixed on the silent screens lining the wall. He wasn’t waiting for permission.He was waiting for timing.Melissa stood beside him, tablet in hand. “Elara has cancelled all morning meetings,” she said quietly. “She’s pulling resources inward.”Alex nodded. “She’s wounded.”“Dangerously,” Melissa added.“Yes,” Alex agreed. “That’s when she’s most efficient.”Melissa hesitated. “And Lily?”Alex didn’t look away from the screen. “She’s exactly where she needs to be.”Not hidden.Not shielded.Not silent.Trusted._______Sebastian’s Place — Late MorningLily hadn’t realized how exhausting control had been until she stopped giving it away.She sat at the dining table, papers spread in front of her—not documents
Tangled in His Web CHAPTER 79 — The Woman Who Raised Her
Morning arrived without permission.Lily woke before the city did.Not because she was rested—but because sleep had finally refused to hold what her waking mind could no longer avoid.The ceiling above her was unfamiliar. Neutral. Clean. Safe in a way she still hadn’t learned to trust. Sebastian’s place didn’t carry the suffocating weight of Elara’s home, nor the disciplined precision of Alexander Knight’s world.For the first time in years, Lily Carter woke up without someone else deciding what the day demanded from her.And the freedom felt heavier than captivity ever had.She lay still, staring upward, replaying the night before.Alex’s voice. His truth. His admission.I chose silence.That sentence settled into her bones.She sat up slowly, pressing a hand to her chest. This wasn’t the end of something.It was the beginning of reckoning.__________Knight Enterprises — Early MorningAlexander Knight arrived at the office before sunrise.Not because he needed to.Because standing
Tangled in His Web CHAPTER 78 — What He Never Said
Alexander Knight didn’t answer immediately.The message sat on his screen, glowing against the darkness of his office.We need to talk. No silence. No protection. Just truth.For years, Alex had negotiated hostile takeovers, dismantled billion-dollar threats, and stared down men who built their lives on destruction.None of that felt as terrifying as this moment.Because Lily wasn’t asking for strategy.She was asking for honesty.And honesty meant surrendering control.He locked his phone, stood, and moved toward the window. The city below pulsed with careless life, people unaware of how fragile everything really was.He had always believed that if he carried the weight alone, others wouldn’t have to bend under it.But Lily had bent anyway.Because of him.Alex unlocked the phone again and typed only one line.Tell me where you are. I’m coming.____________Sebastian’s Place — An Hour LaterLily heard the elevator doors open long before the knock came.Her spine straightened instinct
Tangled in His Web CHAPTER 77 — Her Silence, His Reckoning
Alexander Knight stared at his phone long after the boardroom emptied.The glass walls reflected only him now—one man standing in a room built for power, control, certainty. The city outside glowed indifferent, traffic threading through streets like veins carrying life that had nothing to do with his war.The screen stayed dark.No answer.No rejection either.Just silence.And for the first time in years, silence didn’t feel like something he could command.He exhaled slowly and set the phone down, fingers lingering against the polished surface of the table. His pulse was steady, but something beneath it—something older, more dangerous—was stirring.He had exposed Elara.Not completely. Not yet.But enough.Enough to provoke her.And that meant Lily was no longer standing near the battlefield.She was standing in the center of it.Alex closed his eyes briefly.I should have told you.The thought returned, heavy and merciless.He had spent years convincing himself that withholding inf
Tangled in His Web CHAPTER 76 — The Boardroom Trap
The boardroom at Knight Enterprises had always been designed to intimidate.Floor-to-ceiling glass walls overlooked the city like a silent warning. The table—polished black stone—reflected faces back at themselves, forcing anyone seated there to confront their own expressions. Power lived in this room. Decisions that ruined companies and built empires were made here with calm voices and steady hands.Alexander Knight stood at the head of the table, jacket perfectly pressed, posture immaculate.Inside, everything was coiled.He had called this meeting himself—technically.Elara had requested it. Urgently. Dramatically. With just enough vagueness to force compliance. Alex had agreed without hesitation, because hesitation was exactly what she wanted.The board members filtered in one by one, murmuring greetings, shuffling papers, unaware they were stepping into a carefully laid snare.Elara Wainwright Carter entered last.She wore ivory.Not black. Not gray. Ivory—soft, expensive, disarm
Tangled in His Web CHAPTER 75 — Lines of War
The first thing Lily realized was that the documents didn’t lie.They didn’t shout either.They sat there quietly on the screen in front of her, rows of transactions, timestamps, offshore accounts, shell companies nested inside other shell companies like a Russian doll of corruption. Nothing dramatic. Nothing obvious.That was what made them terrifying.Sebastian stood a few feet away, arms folded loosely, watching her without hovering. He had learned long ago that pressure made people defensive. Space made them honest.Lily scrolled slowly, forcing herself not to skim.She had always been good with details. Elara had beaten that into her—not literally, never in ways that left visible marks, but through constant correction, constant scrutiny.Read it again. You missed something. Careless girls make mistakes.So Lily read everything twice.Then a third time.Her jaw tightened.“These transfers,” she said at last, tapping the screen, “they’re staggered. Not large enough individually t
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