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CRACKS IN THE ARMOR

Author: KIRTI
last update publish date: 2025-12-17 12:57:49

Kieran woke up exhausted despite having slept seven hours, which should have been more than enough. His body felt heavy, like someone had filled his bones with lead overnight. He lay there for a moment, staring at the unfamiliar hotel ceiling, trying to remember what day it was. Thursday. Day four of this business trip. Three more days to go.

He forced himself to sit up, and immediately regretted it. His stomach rolled unpleasantly, a wave of nausea washing over him that made him close his eyes
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  • The S-Tier's Omega Bodyguard    Statement

    Elliot called Kieran at four in the afternoon.He had the full access log by noon. He had the internal records audit by two. He had the name confirmed, the timeline confirmed, the specific moment confirmed, which was a Sunday three months ago when someone had opened the accommodation filing at eleven in the morning, which was not a working hour, which was a Sunday, and had spent fourteen minutes in it.He knew who had opened it and for how long and what was in it.He called.The phone rang twice. Three times. Four.He was already in the elevator when it connected.Kieran said: "Elliot.""There's something you need to know," Elliot said. "I need to tell you in person."A pause. He could hear the specific quality of the pause, the way it had a weight to it."Okay," Kieran said."I'm outside your building," Elliot said. "I can wait downstairs if you need a few minutes."Another pause."Come up," Kieran said.Kieran opened the door in a t-shirt and sweats and socks, which was thirty weeks

  • The S-Tier's Omega Bodyguard    Thirty Weeks — The Other Side

    Elliot worked.He worked more than he had worked in years, which was already a lot, which meant he was working at a level that his assistant Ryan had started noting in a neutral tone that was not quite concern but was adjacent to it. Elliot noticed Ryan noticing and did not address it because addressing it would require a conversation about why he was taking every meeting and staying past nine every night, and he was not ready to have that conversation with anyone except possibly Clara and only at midnight.He took every meeting. He cleared the backlog of decisions that had been waiting on him for two months. He rewrote the omega employment policy framework from scratch, not because the lawyers had asked him to, not because anyone had flagged the existing version as insufficient. He rewrote it because he could not sleep and the work was something he could do correctly and the framework needed to be better and he had the time.It took him four nights. When he handed it to the legal tea

  • The S-Tier's Omega Bodyguard    Thirty Weeks — Alone

    Dr. Chen's office had a specific smell, the kind of medical office smell that was not bad exactly, just permanent, the same every visit, and Kieran had decided somewhere around week twenty that he associated it now with cautious optimism and low blood pressure readings and the specific sound of two heartbeats on a monitor.Maya drove. She had been driving him to the appointments since the previous one, where Elliot had been in the passenger seat and it had been different in all the ways that were now visible by absence. She did not point this out. Neither did he. They talked about other things in the car the way they had been talking about other things for the past week, covering the large obvious gap with the particular care of two people who had decided not to make the other person say it.Dr. Chen had him on the table for the ultrasound and she moved the probe with the practiced ease of someone who had done this a few thousand times and she told him what she found, which was the sa

  • The S-Tier's Omega Bodyguard    The Break

    Elliot found out on a Tuesday that Kieran had stopped answering his calls.Not from Kieran. From the silence itself, which was a specific kind of silence that was different from busy or distracted or bad timing. He called twice on Tuesday and once on Wednesday morning and the phone rang all the way through each time. No voicemail. No text back. Nothing.He texted Maya on Wednesday afternoon: Is he okay?She replied in about ten minutes: He's okay. Give him time.He texted back: How much time.She did not reply to that one.He gave it time. He was genuinely bad at giving it time. He sat at his desk and he worked and he went through two days of meetings that he was present for physically and somewhere else in his head, and he gave Kieran time the way a person gave time when they were holding the phone every hour and checking to see if anything had come through and nothing had.On the fourth day Maya called him.She said: "He wants you to come. Maya's apartment. Now if you can."Elliot s

  • The S-Tier's Omega Bodyguard    Elliot's Statement  The Mistake

    KIERANDr. Chen's appointment was at eight.He got there on time, which was a minor miracle given that he hadn't slept properly and had spent the last forty minutes of the drive running through damage-control options for the consortium situation in his head. Maya was in the car with him and she could tell something was wrong and she was being good about not asking while he clearly needed to work through it.He sat in the waiting room and checked his phone.There were four unread messages from Ryan. Two from Jessica. One from his lawyer. One from Hartley.And one from an unknown number that turned out, when he opened it, to be from a PR contact he'd given his number to months ago — a woman named Dara who worked in Sinclair's communications team.It said: Have you seen the statement? Just went live. Thought you'd want to know.He stared at that for a second. Statement. He hadn't been told about a statement. He opened his browser.It was on Sinclair Industries' official communications ch

  • The S-Tier's Omega Bodyguard    Jessica's Story

    The article went live at six in the morning on a Thursday.Kieran was already awake — had been awake since four, because that's what week twenty-eight looked like — and he read it on his phone in the kitchen with a cup of tea going cold beside him.It was good. That was his honest assessment. Jessica had done exactly what she'd said she'd do — the Marcus angle was the headline, documented and sourced and written in a way that made it very hard to argue with. The omega employee pattern was handled carefully, both Sophia and Rachel given space to speak in their own words. The pregnancy was one line, buried in the middle: An anonymous employee has filed for medical accommodation, which the company has confirmed.Clean. Accurate. Not cruel.He was on his second read, checking for anything that might cause problems, when he hit the paragraph near the end.He read it once. Read it again.Sources close to Sinclair Industries confirm that the anonymous employee has maintained a personal relat

  • The S-Tier's Omega Bodyguard    The Call

    The morning light filtered through Kieran's bedroom window with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer. He opened his eyes at exactly 7 AM, the way he'd trained himself to do for years. No alarm needed. Military precision, even in civilian life.Except nothing about his life felt precise anymore.The n

    last updateLast Updated : 2026-03-22
  • The S-Tier's Omega Bodyguard    THE DIAGNOSIS

    Dr. Chen smiled at him from across the small examination room. She looked exactly like her photo professional, calm, with the kind of face that probably made people feel safe. Kieran didn't feel safe. He felt like he was about to shatter into a thousand pieces."So, Mr. Hunt," she said, settling in

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  • The S-Tier's Omega Bodyguard    Distance

    Maya's apartment building looked the same as it always had old brick, six floors, the lobby door that stuck when it rained. Kieran had been here a hundred times. But standing outside at 7 AM with a duffel bag and nowhere else to go, it felt different.He pressed the buzzer for apartment 4B."Hello?

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  • The S-Tier's Omega Bodyguard    Escape

    Kieran woke up disoriented, sunlight streaming through the hotel curtains in a way that meant it was way too late. He grabbed his phone. 10 AM. He'd slept for fourteen hours straight.That never happened. Ever.His body felt like it weighed a thousand pounds. Every muscle ached. His head pounded wi

    last updateLast Updated : 2026-03-21
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