Lahat ng Kabanata ng Satisfying the billionaire (mxm): Kabanata 141 - Kabanata 150

They ran, not looking back, not slowing down. The alarms screamed louder behind them, echoing through the building as everything began to shut down. Marcus pushed the door open. “Move!” They rushed outside into the cold night air. For a moment, no one spoke just heavy breathing, fast heartbeats, shock.Then Jamie’s voice came through Marcus’s phone. “Are you guys okay?!” Marcus answered quickly, “We’re out.” Hanna’s voice followed, “Where’s Leo?” Leo stepped closer to the phone. “I’m here.” A pause, then relief. “Thank God,” Hanna said.Grayson looked at Leo, really looked at him. “You just destroyed everything.” Leo nodded slowly. “…yeah.”Marcus ran a hand through his hair. “That system… years of data… connections… gone.” Stephen leaned against the car, still weak. “She won’t recover from that easily.”Leo shook his head. “No… she will.” Everyone looked at him.Leo exhaled. “She’s not like Carter. She plans ahead.” Grayson’s eyes darkened. “You think she expected this?” Leo nodded s

The room stayed quiet, but not empty. Keyboards clicked, screens lit up. Marcus leaned forward, fingers moving fast. “Okay… I’m pulling everything she pushed out. News feeds, leaked files, social data.” Stephen stood beside him. “Filter out noise. Focus on repeated signals.” Hanna frowned at the screen. “There are so many faces…” Jamie leaned in. “Wait, zoom that one.” Marcus did. A face. Then another. Then another. Patterns.Leo stepped closer. His eyes scanned everything fast too fast. Grayson noticed. “You seeing something?” Leo didn’t answer immediately. He moved closer to the screen and pointed. “Those three.” Marcus zoomed in. “Okay…” Leo shook his head. “Not just them. Look at their timestamps.” Stephen leaned in. “…they’re all active at the same time.” Leo nodded. “Exactly.” Marcus’s fingers moved again. “Checking overlap…” Hanna watched closely. “Is that good or bad?” Marcus’s expression changed. “…it’s something.”He turned the screen. Lines started connecting the faces thin

No one moved for a while. The room felt different now, not just tense, uncertain, like something invisible had shifted and none of them knew how to stand anymore. Leo stared at the screen. Faces, messages, people reacting. It wasn’t random. It wasn’t noisy. It was… organized, quietly, dangerously.Marcus broke the silence first. “This is getting out of hand.” He ran a hand through his hair. “They’re not just reacting. Look at the timing.”Stephen stepped closer again. “…it’s synchronized.”Hanna frowned. “That doesn’t make sense. He didn’t tell them to do anything.”Stephen nodded. “He didn’t have to.”Leo’s chest tightened. “…what does that mean?”Stephen looked at him carefully. “It means your presence alone is triggering something.”Leo stepped back slightly. “No… no, that’s not ”Grayson cut in. “We don’t know that for sure.”Marcus shook his head. “We kind of do.” He pointed at the screen. “These spikes? They match every time Leo interacts publicly. Every appearance. Every post.

The words on the screen didn’t disappear.“Awaiting directive.”They stayed there. Still. Patient. Like the system wasn’t in a hurry. Like it knew Leo would answer eventually.Leo couldn’t look away. His chest felt tight again. Don't panic. Not fear. Something heavier. Responsibility.“…turn it off,” he said quietly.Marcus hesitated. “It’s not a normal interface. I can’t just ”“Turn. It. Off.”Marcus nodded quickly and shut the laptop. The screen went dark.But it didn’t help.Leo exhaled slowly. “…it’s still there.”Grayson stepped closer. “Of course it is.”Leo looked at him. “I can feel it.”Grayson didn’t dismiss it this time. “…okay.”That surprised Leo.“You believe me?”Grayson’s answer was simple. “Yes.”Leo swallowed. “…good.” Because if Grayson didn’t believe him he didn’t know what he would do.Stephen spoke carefully. “We need to understand the state it’s in.”Marcus nodded. “Yeah. Right now, it’s not controlling anything.”Hanna added, “But it’s waiting to.”Jamie mutte

The house didn’t feel as silent anymore.Not safe, but not suffocating either.The noise Marcus and Stephen created had spread wide. The system wasn’t focused. It wasn’t clean. It wasn’t… organized. And that mattered.Leo stood by the window, arms folded lightly, watching the outside world like it might suddenly change.Grayson stayed close. Not touching, but close enough that Leo could feel him there.“It’s quieter,” Leo said.Grayson nodded. “Good.”Leo shook his head slightly. “No… not just around us.” He tapped his chest lightly. “Here.”Grayson’s expression softened a little. “That means it’s working.”Leo exhaled. “…for now.”Grayson glanced at him. “You’re learning.”Leo let out a small, tired smile. “Yeah… I don’t know if that’s a good thing.”Grayson didn’t answer that, because right now it was both.Across the room, Marcus stretched. “Alright… signal spread is stable.”Stephen nodded. “We bought ourselves time.”Jamie dropped onto the couch. “I like time. Time is good.”Hann