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Chapter forty six
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2026-09-30 07:03:51Caspian POV
The letter arrived on a Tuesday, unremarkable in every way except for the return address, and I sat with it unopened on my desk for nearly an hour before I finally worked up the nerve to slide my thumb beneath the flap.
Julian's handwriting had changed over the past two years, steadier now, less like the frantic scrawl of a man justifying himself and more like someone who'd settled into the slow, unglamorous work of genuine reflection.
Caspian,
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Elowen POVCaspian collapsed during a routine morning jog, and I learned about it not from him directly, but from a frantic call from Reyes, who'd been running behind him along their usual route through the estate grounds."He's conscious, but something's wrong," Reyes said, his voice tight with barely controlled alarm. "Chest pain, difficulty breathing. The ambulance is almost here. I'm following behind them to the hospital now."I don't remember much of the drive there, only the particular, hollowed-out fear that seemed to consume every rational thought, replacing it entirely with a single, desperate need to reach him before anything worse could happen.By the time I arrived, Caspian had already been taken back for testing, and I paced the waiting room with Reyes beside me, both of us silent, both of us clearly thinking the same terrifying thoughts neither of us wanted to voice aloud."He's going to be fine," Reyes said eventually,
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Elowen POVFarrah forwarded me the article without any preamble, just a single line of text above the link. You need to see this immediately.I clicked through with a growing sense of dread, and my stomach dropped the moment the page loaded. A rival design firm, one I'd competed against for years without much real friction, had just unveiled a luxury residential concept nearly identical to a project our Milan office had been developing privately for the past eight months, right down to the specific material palette and the signature courtyard layout that had become something of a Bennett Design Studio hallmark."How is this possible?" I asked Farrah over the phone, my voice tight with barely controlled fury. "These renderings are almost identical to Sofia's concept work. That's not coincidence. That's theft.""I don't know how they got access to it. Our systems are supposed to be secure." Farrah's own voice carried genuine alarm. "I've alrea
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