Cassandra’s pov The elevator doors slid open with a soft chime, and every head in the lobby turned. The sound of heels on polished stone followed, deliberate, and unhurried. I hadn’t realized until that moment how much silence power could command. Gideon Storm walked beside me, tall and composed in his charcoal suit, radiating the kind of authority that made people straighten their spines. His hand brushed lightly against my back, not possessive or creepy, just grounding. He reminded me more of my father with every passing day, like Anthony Langston himself had come to help his daughter rise to the top again. “Ready?” he murmured. I gave a small nod, my gaze fixed on the double doors ahead that led to the consortium meeting. The same doors I’d once entered as a silent wife, trailing behind Austin Barker. Today, I walked through them as Cassandra Langston, the woman behind the alias Celestia Atelier, mother of the prodigies the world called the Genius Twins, and soon-to-be
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