59. Light of Day

CENRIC

I just came from an emergency board meeting concerning my last whereabouts. Even if the stock market was soaring and the corporation’s net was rising, even monitoring my personal affair outside my business, no matter how discreet I was, did not miss their scrutiny.

I wasn’t pissed off or worried. I would feel the same if I was in Cas’ place. I helped people, and that was all that mattered. But my baby brother was concerned about me, and he thought I had just lost my mind. So we fought over keeping secrets from him.

I loved my brother, and I would go to the moon and back to protect him. That was the main reason I kept him out of this mess, and he couldn’t accept my decisions even if they were already over. He was scared that some members of Absolom would retaliate. They could. Even if you cut the head of the snake, some loyal might be able to rebuild the broken organization, and it was possible. I got it.

“Cas?” I called him when he walk