Amber POV“Someone is trying to make the heirs obsolete,” I said at last, the thought no longer abstract, no longer a suspicion, but something that had taken shape and refused to be ignored.“They’re not just removing them.”I shook my head, slowly, deliberately.“They’re breaking them. Reshaping them. Weakening them.”The words settled heavily in the room, each one finding its place among the fragments of truth we had been gathering.“So that when the time comes…”My voice softened, not in doubt, but in certainty.“They are no longer capable of leading.”Silence answered me.“They want control of the families.”And yet—Even as the conclusion formed, something in it resisted. Something incomplete.“But why?”I looked at them all—at Mr. Sun, at Mr. Stait, at Emory, at Jason—each of them carrying power in different ways, each of them part of something larger than themselves.“It’s not like the four families hold all the power.”A quiet breath.“We are simply the most visible.”That was
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