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Chapter 91

AVAThe screen in front of me continued to tell me lies.Comments piled onto comments, rumors overtaking rumors, faster than I could read a single line before it scrolled out of view.Everything had blurred into something close to a black mesh, dark texts bleeding into itself, each new post promising the same thing. That whatever instability people feared was not just real, but tripling by the hour.We were already deep into our week here, and this was not how I wanted to spend what little time we had left of it. I had told myself I would only check the feed once more, then close it, then work on something else entirely. That promise had failed me an hour ago, and every hour since.I sat with my hands clasped in front of me, my phone propped up on its stand just out of arm's reach. Eventually I reached out and turned it face down, if only so I would stop watching numbers climb that I had no way of controlling.Two days, Kael had said. But sitting here now, two days had folded down int

Chapter 92

AVAThe next few days had gone the way we needed them to.More meetings, more names lining up behind the restructuring, until the majority had fully pivoted toward supporting it. Now, standing alone in my room with everything packed and ready, taking all of it in, I felt something I could not immediately place. It was not a regret. It was not the kind of quiet dread I had expected to settle over me once it was finally over.I ran my hand once over the edge of the desk where we had spent so many hours bent over files, the surface bare now, stripped of everything that had made this room feel like ours instead of simply a place we were passing through.Instead, it was something closer to a lingering weight, as though even after Kael and I left the penthouse behind, some part of what had happened here would stay behind with it, refusing to be packed away so easily.Maybe it was simply how far we had gone, further than I had ever expected when this week began. But there was no undoing tha

Chapter 93

AVA“I can’t do that, Ava,” Fathers reply came faster than I expected."What do you mean by that?" I asked, bewildered.“It means no,” Father said, adamantly."I am proposing something that would actively prevent any further spontaneous tampering with the trust our political families hold in us," I said nearing with slimmering annoynace. "Something that makes stability more predictable, more mappable, instead of leaving it open to whatever spontaneous crisis nearly took us apart while I was away this past week."I laid it out plainly, watching his face for any sign of resistance before it fully formed. "A structure that removes the guesswork entirely. No more waiting to see who panics first, or who decides to gamble with everyone else's trust to further their own ends."Father considered this a moment. "I understand what you are saying, Ava. Believe me, I have already thought this through myself, and I anticipated you would bring it to me eventually. But a decision this radical cannot

Chapter 94

AVA"Why didn’t you tell me that your father had already granted you access to the archive?" I asked, my voice carrying the edge of someone who had been kept in the dark one too many times.Kael did not answer immediately. He adjusted the papers in front of him before finally meeting my gaze."I did not tell you because you are not patient enough for me to break the news."I did not take that as an excuse. "You know it is not so complicated that you have to keep vanishing every time something crazy happens. You do not need to always dive headfirst and make sure everything is perfect before telling me anything."Kael's eyes narrowed slightly. "I prefer to have all the information before I present it.""And I prefer to know what is happening behind the scenes instead of just getting the final results." I leaned forward. "This is not a perfect collaboration if you are the only one who knows what is actually going on.""All those messages were time wasters and I see no need for them," Kae

Chapter 95

AVAI did not know how long I had stayed fixated there. It was just numbers and metrics but the fact is I was highly interested due to the fact these were results of a well funded research that were discarded, and some looked abandoned halfway, as if they knew the end would not yield results."No," I muttered to myself. The work in front of me was too detailed, too calculated, and too precise to fail."Ava."Kael called me. I had not even noticed he was still in the room ever since I had grabbed one of these from the shelves."What is it?" I asked, ready to dive back into the book immediately.But Kael raised a good point that made me stay. "We have to leave in time because by tomorrow there are political meetings. Meetings would lead to questions. Questions to stances. And stances must not show a shred of vulnerability."He neared. "I did promise this was a place away from the public eye and it is. No one will spy on us here. But we have to balance our time to actually make sure beca

Chapter 96

AVAI did not get the chance to ask who it was again before the door swung open and Lucas let himself in, he let off a vibe that seemed to mirror suffocation, just enough to fill the entire room before he had chosen to speak.He strode in, giving off an energy that seemed to radiate domination as he closed the distance to my desk with the kind of stride that expected me to rise and meet it."Can you see how fragile the power you claim to be leading really is?" Lucas asked, his arms folding as he stood just past the threshold.I did not answer immediately. Instead, I kept my eyes steady on him, unbothered by his tone, my pen still resting where I had set it down."You stayed quiet at my door," I said, "all so you could have a grand entrance which didn’t move me in the slightest. What does that say about you, Lucas?"He ignored my question entirely, pressing forward with whatever he had already walked in committed to saying."I came here hoping you would finally see things my way," Luca

Chapter 97

AVAThe next day, my mind was still tangled in everything I had seen recreating the image effortlessly each time I tried not to think about it. I checked my phone once more, the message I had sent Kael still sitting there, unanswered. Some part of me considered waiting for him before going back there again this night, but I remembered what he had told me early on. We did not need to disappear together every single time.Doing so too often was its own kind of risk, one more pattern for someone to notice and start asking questions about. This felt like the right night to go alone.***The lower halls started to look more like a gold mine with each second I stayed in the space. I found the section I had marked in my memory and pulled the next file free before leaning lightly against a shelf as I opened it beneath the glow stick's pale light.At first, it read like the others, dry structures of numbers and names, transactions folded into transactions. But as I moved further into the pag

Chapter 98

AVAThe file sat open on the table between us.The longer I stared at its contents, reading it over and over, I felt even more unsure to cast judgment, that was why the room has gone from completely silent video of motion or and words. Just thoughts circling around every worst case scenario."What if we push another proposal?" I asked, breaking the silence. "Something that outright bans this kind of consolidation before it goes any further?"Kael shook his head, leaning back so his concentration was redirected to me. "It is not that simple, Ava. You cannot keep drafting laws just to outpace a problem like this. The last proposal hasn't even had time to settle with the council. If another one suddenly replaces it, you will just divide loyalties and stack law on top of law until the whole structure collapses under its own weight.""Then what do you suggest?" I asked. "We can't just leave it unchecked. By the time we build an actual case against them, everything will already be too far g

Chapter 99

AVA"This connects to what I already had," I said, spreading the new pages beside the ones I had been sitting on for weeks. "The names, dates and transactions are all lining up.” I said through my phone, the discovery was immediately intriguing. I didn't know when I couldn't keep it all down. Instead, I had called him immediately to let him know I had struck gold.“So now we know it wasn’t a coincidence neither were the payments cumulated at random. That's a solid step forward, Ava,” Kael praised, if only he could see my cheeks reddening."Where are the originals right now?" He asked shortly after. "In my study with no extra copies," I said."Keep it that way," Kael said. "Do not repeat any of this out loud where it could be overheard, and do not let a single page leave that room.""I am aware of what this could do if it got out," I said, a little sharper than I meant to. "Sanctions. Investigations. Every family named in here comes after whoever leaked it first. I am not careless, K

Chapter 100

AVADespite being caught off guard, I managed to hold my ground long enough that the elders agreed to postpone the matter, citing insufficient evidence to reach a verdict that day."Trust is supposed to be mutual," the Voss representative said as the room began to empty. "In this case, we do not believe that has been so. We will see you at the council court. Next month."I narrowed my eyes at him, though I said nothing in return. From their perspective, I understood then, this delay had never been a loss. It only gave them more time to widen whatever case they were building against us. I did not have the luxury of dwelling on it. I gathered my things and headed straight back to the estate.I was still turning the hearing over in my mind when Amina knocked at my study door."Miss Ava, representatives from the Ashwood family are here to see you.""I did not agree to any meeting," I said."I know," Amina said. "But they insist it cannot wait. They say it concerns an unfolding crisis."Th

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