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chapter 201

Marcus I sat with the phone in my hand and stared at nothing as I felt the full weight of everything land on me all at once. My mother hiding on the floor of a house I had moved her to. Gunshots outside the window. Two days of silence while she waited and didn't know if her son was alive."Is she alright?"I looked up.Nadia was standing in the doorway. She had been there quietly through the whole call, neither intruding nor leaving."Yes," I said. My voice came out rough. "Someone tried to get in last night. But there were guards outside."Nadia nodded slowly. "Someone is watching over her.""Yes," I said.She looked at me for a moment."I'll get you food," she said simply. No questions. No pushing. Just the practical and decent thing, delivered without ceremony.She left.I looked at the phone.I dialled Ethan.It rang twice."Marcus." His voice was even. Giving nothing away."Your men were at the house last night," I said. "Someone tried to break in. Your team stopped them."A br

chapter 202

Marcus"What?" Nadia's eyes went wide as I finished narrating the story. "You did that to your wife?""Ex wife," I said quietly. Though the correction felt pointless. Like adjusting the frame on a burning picture."Marcus.""I know," I said. The words came out rough, tired and stripped of everything except the truth of them. "I know. I'm an idiot. I'm stupid. I made wrong choices every single time there was a choice to make. And I made them with my eyes open and I told myself reasons that weren't reasons." I stopped. My throat was tight. "I deserve everything that's happening to me right now. I know that."Nadia said nothing.She was sitting in the chair with her hands folded in her lap and looking at me with an expression I couldn't immediately read. Not judgment exactly. But not the absence of it either. Something more careful than both."The worst part," I said, "is that she was good. Serena was genuinely good to me. She tried. Even when I made it hard she tried." I pressed my good

chapter 203

SarahThe hospital room was quiet except for the soft sound of the machines.Kelvin was sleeping.He had been sleeping for most of the day, which the doctors said was good, which meant his body was trying to heal itself, meaning there was still something to heal. I held onto that. I held onto it the way you hold onto the only solid thing in a room that is flooding.I sat in the plastic chair beside his bed and watched his small chest rise and fall.He looked so little against the hospital sheets. His hands were curled loosely at his sides and his face in sleep had that complete and unguarded softness that children's faces have when the world isn't asking anything of them yet. Long lashes against his cheeks. The small frown line between his brows that he had carried since the day he was born.My son.My boy.I pressed my fingers against my mouth and felt the tears come without asking permission.God.This was not how it was supposed to go.I had dreamed of a different life for as long

chapter 204

Sarah"Now get up," he said. "And leave. If you come back to this property again I will not have this conversation. I will simply call the people I need to call and you will leave in a way that is significantly less comfortable than walking."He stepped back inside and the gate began to close."Please," I said one more time.The gate clicked shut.I knelt on the ground outside it for a moment.Then I got up.My knees were shaking. My face was wet and I didn't have the energy to fix it. I walked back to the road and stood there and looked at nothing for a long moment.I need to go home. To sell some of my things.I had jewellery from the early days when Marcus was still trying. A watch he had given me. Some clothes that still had value. Enough maybe to make a dent. Enough maybe to buy a few more days.I flagged a cab.---The old neighbourhood announced itself gradually.The streets narrowing. The buildings closer together, older and marked by the particular weariness of places that ne

chapter 205

Serena When Ethan told me about the attack on Marcus's mother, I sat very still. He had come to find me in the bedroom, still in his shirt from dinner, the top two buttons undone. He sat beside me on the edge of the bed and took my hand first before he spoke. That was how I knew it was something heavy. "My men got to them in time," he said. "But it was close." I listened as he told me everything. How they had tracked the threat back to one of the factions that had been circling us for weeks. How the attack had been swift and calculated — not random. How his men had neutralized every one of them before Marcus's mother could be touched. When he finished, I was quiet for a long moment. Then I shook my head slowly. What a life. I sat there and really thought about it — really let myself feel the strangeness of it all. A year ago, if someone had told me that Marcus and his family would one day need my protection, I would have laughed. Not a kind laugh. The sharp kind.

chapter 206

Serena Ethan followed me upstairs.He closed the door behind us and then came to where I was standing near the window. He took my elbow gently and guided me to the chair, helped me sit. He crouched in front of me, his forearms resting on his knees, and looked at me."Why did you trust him so quickly?" he asked. "Everyone around us is a threat right now, Serena. You know that.""I saw the resemblance," I said. "It wasn't just the face, it was the birthmark. My father had it in the exact same place on the exact same arm. You can't fake that.""No," Ethan agreed slowly. "You can't.""And something in me just..." I exhaled. "Something told me he was telling the truth. I know how that sounds."Ethan was quiet for a moment. Then he said, "I know he's Mr Lawrence's son. The resemblance is too clear to argue with." He paused. "But I think someone is using him."I looked at him."Think about it," he said. "The company is already in crisis. Someone is quietly buying up your shares — we don't

chapter 207

EthanI watched as Serena interrogated Daniel.She looked at Daniel across the table and asked if he was enjoying his food.And I had to look away before I smiled at myself.She had him. She knew it. He knew it, even if he didn't fully understand how completely the ground had shifted beneath him in the last thirty seconds. That choke had told her everything she needed to know, and she had filed it away behind that polished expression without missing a beat.God, she was something.I reached over and put more food on her plate. She didn't protest this time. She was still watching Daniel with that calm, pleasant look on her face, and he was recovering from his cough with the careful movements of a man trying very hard to appear unbothered.We finished lunch without much more conversation. Daniel ate quietly. Serena asked him one or two light questions about his bakery — nothing that could be used against him, just enough to keep the atmosphere comfortable. She was good at that. Making p

chapter 208

Ethan It took time.More than I would have liked.Rex worked through the night — I brought him coffee twice and he barely acknowledged it. The process was delicate. You couldn't move on something like this with force or speed, not without alerting whoever was on the other side. Every approach had to look routine. Every purchase had to look like market activity.He built the counter-structure first — two layers deep, clean and fresh, nothing that could be tied back to Ashford Holdings or to me. Then he began making contact through intermediaries. Quiet offers. Generous ones.The first response came back with a counter.Rex looked at me. I told him to accept it.The second came back with silence for forty minutes, and then an acceptance.The third took the longest, nearly two hours of back and forth through layers of representatives who didn't know who they were representing. Rex was patient. I paced.At half past one in the morning, he leaned back in his chair and let out a long breat

chapter 209

SerenaI woke up slowly.Not the sharp, sudden kind of waking that came with bad dreams or an early alarm. This was the soft kind — the kind where consciousness arrives gently, like light coming in under a door. Gradual and warm.Ethan's arm was around me.His chest rose and fell against my back in the steady rhythm of someone still half-asleep, his breath warm against the back of my neck. His hand was open against my stomach — not holding, just resting. Like even in sleep he wanted to know I was there.I lay still for a moment and just let myself feel it.This. Him. The quiet of the early morning before the world remembered to be complicated.I turned carefully, slowly, not wanting to pull him out of sleep too quickly. He stirred anyway — he always did when I moved, like some part of him was always partly alert, always keeping track of me even in rest.His eyes opened. Heavy-lidded, dark, finding mine immediately."Morning," he said. His voice was rough with sleep, lower than usual.

Chapter 210

Serena Lawrence Global rose up ahead of us as the car turned into the business district.We went in through the main entrance.The lobby staff straightened when they saw me. The receptionist at the front desk stood, and there was a small ripple of acknowledgement that moved through the room the way it always did — a subtle shift, people becoming more conscious of their posture, their expression, their proximity to whatever I was doing.I had learned to move through it without slowing down.I walked with Daniel through the lobby, into the lift, and up to the boardroom floor. My assistant met me in the corridor — tablet in hand, already talking. I listened and gave instructions without breaking stride.The board meeting was already assembled when we walked in.Twelve people around a long table. Suits, careful expressions, the particular quality of attention that people give when they're trying to read a room before committing to any position within it.I took my place at the head of

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