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The Ashes They Claimed

Author: Allison zee
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2025-09-19 00:19:52

Morning broke like shattered glass.

The city’s skyline was gray, muted, veiled by smoke that still lingered from the night before. The headlines hit before the sun had fully risen:

CASSIAN WESLEY DEAD IN FIERY CRASH.

Wesley heir perishes in midnight explosion.

Highway inferno claims another life of privilege.

Screens blared the story. Phones buzzed with alerts. Paparazzi swarmed outside the Wesley tower, their lenses pointed at every window, every door, hungry for the shot of a grieving mother
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  • The Bodyguards boy    EXPOSURE

    Cassian didn’t rush this one.The first video had been a spark.Thisthis was fire.The laptop sat open in front of him, the screen brighter now, filled with layered files, fragments, clips stitched together with deliberate precision. Not chaotic. Not overwhelming.Structured.Controlled.Every second chosen.Every frame intentional.Cassian leaned back slightly, eyes scanning the timeline one last time.There were no gaps.No weak points.No uncertainty.Where the first video suggestedthis one confirmed.Julian’s voice carried clearly in one segment.“…you don’t move them through the front. You route them where no one looks twice.”Another cut.Different angle.Different night.“…payments go through the secondary accounts. If they trace one, they don’t find the rest.”Another

  • The Bodyguards boy    TARGET

    Lennox didn’t choose the location.Julian did.That was how it always worked.A place just removed enough from everything else quiet, controlled, forgettable. The kind of space where conversations didn’t carry and questions didn’t exist.Lennox stepped inside without hesitation, but not without awareness. His gaze moved once across the room, taking in the details automatically.One exit behind him.One in the back.No one else visible.Julian stood near the window.Of course he did.Looking out like he owned everything beyond it.He didn’t turn immediately.“You took your time,” Julian said.His voice was calm.Too calm.“I came when you called,” Lennox replied.Julian exhaled lightly, almost amused.“That’s not the same thing.”Now he turned.His expression hadn’t changed.

  • The Bodyguards boy    VIRAL

    Cassian didn’t watch it twice.Once was enough.The laptop screen cast a low, cold glow across the room, the only light in the quiet space. Outside, nothing moved. No sound reached in. No interruption broke the stillness.Insideeverything was already in motion.The video sat ready on the screen.No title.No trace.Just a file that shouldn’t exist.Cassian’s gaze held on it for a moment longer, not with hesitation but with clarity. This wasn’t pressure in the shadows. This wasn’t controlled disruption.This was exposure.Public.Uncontained.Irreversible.He moved without urgency, fingers steady as he routed the upload through layers that would scatter its origin beyond recognition. No direct path. No clean trail.By the time it surfacedit would belong to no one.He hit upload.The bar began to move.Cassian didn’t sit. Didn’t wait for it to complete.He closed the laptop before the final percentage registered.Because the moment it left his handsit was already working.—The video

  • The Bodyguards boy    SET-UP

    The quiet didn’t unsettle Cassian anymore.It sharpened him.Morning had come and gone without him noticing when it began. Out here, time didn’t announce itself. It moved without noise, without pressure, without expectation. No meetings waiting. No calls demanding attention. No version of himself to maintain.Just space.And in that spaceclarity.Cassian stood at the window, hands resting lightly against the frame, gaze fixed on the stretch of land beyond. Nothing moved. No cars. No people. No indication that anything existed beyond what he could see.That was the point.Invisible places created invisible moves.He exhaled slowly, eyes narrowing just slightly as his mind worked through it again.Julian.Not the man himself.The structure around him.Because men like Julian didn’t operate alone. They built systems. Networks. Layers of control that made them difficult to reach

  • The Bodyguards boy    SHIFT

    Julian didn’t rush.He never did.While the city reacted while noise spread, stories twisted, and attention scattered—he stayed exactly where he was.Still.Untouched.In control.The screen in front of him cycled through footage angles pulled from places that weren’t supposed to exist. Not the versions circulating online. Not the edited clips designed to mislead.The real ones.Or close enough.He paused on a frame.Zoomed slightly.Rowan.Not during the shot.After.Julian’s eyes narrowed just slightly as he studied it.No hesitation.No panic.The recovery was immediate. Controlled.That mattered more than anything else.“Good,” Julian murmured.Because now he knew.Rowan wouldn’t react blindly.He would think.And people who thought—Could be predicted.

  • The Bodyguards boy    Aftermath

    The city didn’t slow down.It never did.Even after the shooting.Even after the panic had cleared and the glass had been swept away, the street looked almost normal again. Like nothing had happened. Like fear could be cleaned up and forgotten as easily as debris.Rowan stood at the edge of it, gaze fixed on the spot where it happened.There was no blood left.No markers.No sign.But he could still see it.The angle. The distance. The timing.Too precise to be random.Taryn stood a few steps behind him, arms crossed, watching the same empty space. “You’re thinking too hard,” she said.“No,” Rowan replied. “Not hard enough.”He crouched slightly, eyes narrowing as he traced the line of sight in his mind. The shooter had position. Clear view. Controlled exit.Planned.“Whoever it was,” Taryn added, “they didn’t want to kill you.”Rowan straightened.“I know.”That was the problem.A clean shot would’ve been easy.InsteadA graze.A warning.Or worse.A test.Rowan’s jaw tightened sligh

  • The Bodyguards boy    GLITCH

    The footage should have been clean.That was the first thing Rowan noticed.Not what was in it but what wasn’t.He leaned forward slightly, eyes narrowing at the screen as the timeline played in steady, uneventful motion. Cassian’s living room. Empty. Still.

  • The Bodyguards boy    PRESSURE

    The message came through just as Rowan stepped out of the car.Taryn.He’s closing it. Officially.Rowan stared at the screen for a second longer than necessary.Then he locked the phone and slipped it into his pocket.The Wesley estate lo

  • The Bodyguards boy    DEAD SIGNALS

    The city lights thinned behind them, dissolving into long stretches of empty road.Rowan kept his distance.Not too close to raise suspicion. Not too far to lose him.Julian Ward’s sedan cut through the night with steady precision, every turn deliberate, every movement controlled. There was no hesi

  • The Bodyguards boy    SHADOWS

    The footage looped again.Rowan leaned forward in his chair, elbows resting on the desk as the dim light of the monitor flickered across his face. Across from him, Taryn sat with her arms folded, eyes fixed on the screen.The small office around them was quiet except for the faint h

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