For a moment, nobody spoke. The silence that settled over the apartment felt heavy, almost tangible, pressing against the walls and filling every corner of the room. Outside, rain tapped softly against the windows, but even that distant sound seemed muted beneath the weight of Elias’s revelation. Lucien stood motionless, the phone still pressed to his ear. Beaumont. The name echoed through his mind with unsettling force. Across from him, Aira felt her stomach tighten. She knew that surname. Everyone did. The Beaumont family wasn’t merely wealthy. They were one of those names people spoke carefully, a family whose influence stretched through business, politics, and old social circles that most ordinary people would never even glimpse. Their history with the Laurent family went back decades, intertwined in ways outsiders could only speculate about. And suddenly, a possibility neither of them had considered began to take shape. Victor Laurent had never been the center o
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