The Stepfather's Forbidden Claim
"He locked a collar on my neck! He kept me on an island! He just... he just broke me against that stone, Dad! And you let him?"
"Because it was the only way to make the illusion absolute!" my father hissed, standing up, his frail posture suddenly straight, radiating a cold, untouchable power. "Julian is an obsessive psychopath, Elara. If he thought you were a plant, he would have buried us both. But if he thought he 'stole' you—if he thought he had successfully broken the daughter of his rival—his obsession would make him blind. He spent three years pouring his resources into protecting you, into hiding my assets, into building Project Ghost. He built this entire underground empire to hide
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