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Arthur’s Thoughts

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POV : Arthur

I had never liked noise. The scandal had already passed in the public eye. The media had done what it always did, circled, fed, and then moved on to something newer. To anyone watching from the outside, it looked like things had stabilised.

Inside the company, it hadn’t.

Problems like that didn’t disappear. They simply buried themselves deeper, spreading quietly into places most people wouldn’t think to check unless they already suspected something was off.

I always suspected.

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