Chapter sixty one

Elowen POVNoah's acceptance letter to the university's accelerated architecture program arrived in early spring, and I watched him read it twice on the kitchen counter before he finally let out a whoop loud enough to bring Willow running from her room to see what had happened."I got in," he said, still staring at the letter like it might dissolve if he looked away. "I actually got in.""Of course you got in," I said, pulling him into a hug, pride swelling so large in my chest it nearly ached. "You worked incredibly hard for this."Caspian arrived home that evening to find the letter taped proudly to the refrigerator, and I watched him read it with the same fierce, quiet pride I'd felt earlier, though something more complicated moved behind his eyes as the reality of what it meant settled fully into place."The program's residential," he said later, once Noah had gone to celebrate with Sienna and a few other friends. "He'd be moving

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Chapter sixty two

Elowen POVFarrah forwarded me the article without any preamble, just a single line of text above the link. You need to see this immediately.I clicked through with a growing sense of dread, and my stomach dropped the moment the page loaded. A rival design firm, one I'd competed against for years without much real friction, had just unveiled a luxury residential concept nearly identical to a project our Milan office had been developing privately for the past eight months, right down to the specific material palette and the signature courtyard layout that had become something of a Bennett Design Studio hallmark."How is this possible?" I asked Farrah over the phone, my voice tight with barely controlled fury. "These renderings are almost identical to Sofia's concept work. That's not coincidence. That's theft.""I don't know how they got access to it. Our systems are supposed to be secure." Farrah's own voice carried genuine alarm. "I've alrea

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Chapter sixty three

Elowen POVCaspian collapsed during a routine morning jog, and I learned about it not from him directly, but from a frantic call from Reyes, who'd been running behind him along their usual route through the estate grounds."He's conscious, but something's wrong," Reyes said, his voice tight with barely controlled alarm. "Chest pain, difficulty breathing. The ambulance is almost here. I'm following behind them to the hospital now."I don't remember much of the drive there, only the particular, hollowed-out fear that seemed to consume every rational thought, replacing it entirely with a single, desperate need to reach him before anything worse could happen.By the time I arrived, Caspian had already been taken back for testing, and I paced the waiting room with Reyes beside me, both of us silent, both of us clearly thinking the same terrifying thoughts neither of us wanted to voice aloud."He's going to be fine," Reyes said eventually,

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Chapter sixty one

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Chapter sixty three