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Chapter 212 – “Blood in the Water”

Author: Ernest Brooks
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Elena POV

They say blood in the water attracts sharks.

In this empire, it attracted something far worse – those who had waited in the dark for a single sign of weakness. And Victor had given them that opening with surgical precision.

Within twenty-four hours of the biotech leak, five former Montrose board members emerged from hiding. Three black-market syndicates announced they would no longer recognize the Phoenix Order. Several neutral sectors pulled their funding “for risk assessment.”

And yet, I didn’t panic.

I prepared.

Because Victor had underestimated one thing: I’d inherited not just my father’s empire but also my mother’s secrets. And while the world was busy watching me from above, I had quietly accessed what lay below.

From a hidden vault beneath the eastern corridor of the old Montrose labs, Jayla and I unearthed a cache so deeply buried even Luca hadn’t known it existed - military-grade neural mapping patents, classified encryption sequences, and stockpiles of dormant sha
Ernest Brooks

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