The Billionaire's Blueprint
~074
Fallout
The world did not end in an explosion or in silence. It ended in emails. In headlines. In contracts rewritten under duress. In boardrooms that smelled of sweat and panic.
It had been forty-eight hours since Edenfall.
Inside the Cathedral, Xavier sat hunched over a console, the flickering light casting deep shadows under his eyes. Reports streamed across the monitors - hundreds of them, from news outlets, whistleblowing platforms, underground networks, corporate leak databases.
Bella entered the war room silently, the soft padding of her socks the only sound before she rested a hand on Xavier's shoulder. In the crook of her other arm, baby Hope blinked up at the ceiling's mosaic
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