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Jessica's Story

Penulis: KIRTI
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-03-28 23:14:38

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 handl
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    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    Legal Battles

    The board meeting lasted six hours and Kieran wasn't in the room for any of it.He sat in the building's lobby with his laptop and his water bottle and his evidence file all of it submitted formally that morning through Hartley's office, titled Suspicious Vendor Activity: Full Assessment, because Kieran had learned a long time ago that the most dangerous documents were the ones that looked boring. He worked through a Sun City contractor review while upstairs thirty-two people were deciding whether to believe two months of his careful, patient, documented work.Ryan texted at eleven-fourteen: Going well.At one-forty-two: Still going.At three-oh-seven: It's done.Kieran closed his laptop and went to find a bathroom to splash water on his face because he'd been running on three hours of sleep and an adrenaline-adjacent feeling that wasn't quite relief yet.He came back to find Elliot in the lobby.Elliot looked like someone who'd just come out of six hours of being professionally immov

  • The S-Tier's Omega Bodyguard    Cracks in the Armor

    He couldn't sleep.This wasn't new — sleeping had been difficult for weeks, the kind of pregnancy insomnia that came from having two small people who didn't know yet that three in the morning was not an appropriate time to be active. But tonight it was different. Tonight it wasn't the physical discomfort of running out of positions that worked, or the twins doing something gymnastic at an inconvenient hour.Tonight it was everything else.The board meeting tomorrow. The witness request. Jessica's story moving toward publication. The Marcus file out in the world now, doing what it was supposed to do, and the specific vulnerable feeling of having sent something into motion that couldn't be recalled.He got up at quarter to three because lying in the dark with all of it was worse than just getting up. He went to the kitchen. He got water. He sat at the table and looked at the window, which showed him the dark and his own reflection and not much else.He didn't hear Maya get up. She was j

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

    Jessica Chen arrived at the park at noon exactly, which Kieran had expected. She sat down at the bench without preamble, looked at the folder he set on the seat between them, and said: "What is this?""The real story," he said.She opened it carefully, like someone handling something that might change weight as she read. Kieran watched her go through it — the transaction records, the vendor chain from the bomb threat, the documented contact with her publisher, the injunction filing from this morning. He watched the moment her face shifted from journalist-reading to journalist-understanding. It was a small shift but he'd learned to read small things."Marcus Sinclair," she said."He orchestrated the attempted corporate espionage. He's been systematically trying to destabilise the Sun City project and manufacture a board confidence crisis so he can step in and take the company." Kieran kept his voice even. "The omega employees, the NDAs, my own situation — he turned all of it into a wea

  • The S-Tier's Omega Bodyguard    Marcus's Hand

    The filing came through at eight in the morning and Kieran read it twice before he fully believed it.Not because it surprised him. He'd known Marcus was building toward something the texts, the surveillance, the way every move for the last two months had felt like a man clearing the board before a final play. What surprised him was how clean it was. How ordinary it looked on paper. Just a board filing, just legal language, the kind of thing that arrived in inboxes every day in corporate environments and got skimmed and forwarded.Except buried in the middle of it, under the formal language about undisclosed personal liability and leadership confidence reviews, was his pregnancy. Named. Documented. Used as evidence that Elliot had compromised his professional position through personal conduct unbecoming of a CEO.They'd put his children in a legal document. As leverage.He set the laptop on the coffee table and sat back and looked at the ceiling and let himself feel that for a full si

  • The S-Tier's Omega Bodyguard    Clara

    CLARAClara had thought about texting him for two weeks before she actually did it.Not because she was nervous exactly. More because she kept trying to figure out what she actually wanted from the conversation, and every time she came up with a reason it sounded either too much like something she'

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  • The S-Tier's Omega Bodyguard    Discharge Conditions

    KIERANDr. Chen discharged him on Thursday afternoon with a list of conditions that she read out in the flat, unhurried tone she used for things she expected to be argued with and had pre-emptively decided not to budge on.No sustained physical exertion. No proximity to the rejecting alpha for more

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  • The S-Tier's Omega Bodyguard    Marcus Escalates

    Kieran heard about the bomb threat the same way he heard about most things these days through his laptop, cross-legged on Maya's couch, wearing a sweatshirt with a hole in the sleeve because he hadn't been to his own apartment in two weeks.Ryan called first. It was eleven in the morning on a Monda

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  • The S-Tier's Omega Bodyguard    The Journalist's Deadline

    Jessica Chen called on a Wednesday.Kieran had been expecting it. Maya had bought him two weeks back in the hospital, and two weeks was up on Wednesday, and Jessica Chen was the kind of journalist who kept track of her own deadlines with the specific focus of someone who'd learned that extensions h

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