Semua Bab Silenced By The Billionaire : Bab 91 - Bab 94

POV: ElaraThe holding room beneath the command center was deliberately bare.Concrete walls. A single metal table bolted to the floor. Two plain chairs. No windows. No distractions. The kind of space designed to strip away every layer of pretense and leave only the truth sitting between the people inside it. The air was cool and still, carrying the faint sterile scent of cleaned metal and recycled ventilation. Overhead lighting cast hard, even shadows that made every expression impossible to hide.Marco sat on one side of the table. His wrists were unbound, but his posture remained rigid, as if he were still waiting for the final judgment to fall. The physical injuries from the rail yard had healed enough for him to sit upright without visible pain, yet the deeper damage remained carved into his face, the betrayal, the guilt, the knowledge of every choice that had led him here. He looked older than he had the last time I had seen him clearly. Smaller, somehow, without the armor of pr

POV: Dual (Elara & Dante)ElaraThe rain had stopped completely.Night air moved cool and clean across the open section of the penthouse terrace as I stood at the glass barrier, looking out over Aether City. The lights stretched in every direction, sharp, dense, and unbroken spilling across districts that had so recently felt like contested ground. For the first time in months, the view did not rearrange itself in my mind into targets, pressure points, and contingency routes. It simply existed. A city that had been fought for, bled over, and finally settled under a single, shared authority.Behind me, I heard Dante step out onto the terrace. He did not speak at once. He came to stand beside me, close enough that I could feel the solid warmth of his presence without him needing to reach for contact. The silence between us carried none of the old tension. There were no unfinished negotiations left in it, no residual calculations about leverage or exit routes. It was the quiet of two peo