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He brought them out of a safe to show her. Mrs James took a careful look at the pictures. “Are you afraid of her even in pictures?” Didi laughed at the way Mrs James turned her face. “She looks scary like a horror movie.” Was Mrs James' reply. “Thank goodness I wouldn’t ever get to meet her.” “You can never tell.” “So how did you feel when she left?” “She rejected our love. And I was ready to fight for it. But both parents wouldn’t consent to such. I wanted to keep it a secret affair. And Warrior Nun made everything easier by not agreeing to it.”

“So tell me, Mr. Gavin, which is it?” Gavin’s mouth opened, but no sound came out. He was trapped. Checkmate. Admit Cooper was a cat, and admit a cat can’t rape a human. Deny Cooper was a cat, and admit they faked the DNA evidence. I watched him squirm. A dry, contemptuous laugh escaped my lips. “It seems Mr. Gavin needs a moment to think. Allow me to clarify for you.” I turned to the judge. “Your Honor, a moment ago, the plaintiff questioned this cat’s identity.”

I rush in. "I know that now." I then proceed to tell him the story about Juno. I repeat the things I told Declan. By the time I got to the end of the story and told him about my inability to shift for years until Alpha Kedar and also a clearer story about my rejection, I was actually struggling to keep my voice from breaking.

*Wednesday | 7:00am | Carter Holdings, 42nd Floor* Elena had been staring at the same FDA rejection letter for 20 minutes. _MERIDIAN BIOTECH - PRE-IND APPLICATION: DENIED_ _Reason: Insufficient legal representation. Insufficient regulatory strategy. Application incomplete._ The funding was in Meridian’s account. That wasn’t the problem. The problem was that no top-tier FDA law firm would touch Meridian. They were too small.

Motion denied. Sandra's message came through at half past two while I was in the middle of a fitting, and I read it standing exactly where I was with a pin still in my hand and Bisi watching my face from across the dress form. "Good news?" Bisi said. "Motion denied," I said. "Trial date stands." Bisi made a sound that was not quite a word but communicated everything it needed to. I texted Alex. Motion denied. Trial date stands. His reply came in under a minute.

Instead, it was a news alert from a tabloid site. TOP STORY: Is the Matthews-Quinn Wedding Cursed? Business Crisis May Delay the Merger. Adrian grabbed a heavy glass from the side table and hurled it at the TV. The screen shattered, the screen immediately turned black. "It’s not over," he hissed into the room. He wasn't thinking about spies or traitors. He was convinced this was just a streak of bad luck and incompetent employees. He picked up his phone and dialed his private security head.

I put it on speaker so Callan could hear. “Mr. Brooks, Mr. Kane... I’m sorry to inform you that your preliminary application has been denied.” The words landed like a physical blow. The agency representative continued, her voice carefully neutral. “Due to the high-profile nature of your past scandal, the ongoing publicity, and concerns regarding stability and public scrutiny on a potential child, the committee felt it would not be in the best interest of any minor to place them in your home at this time.” Callan went very still beside me.

Priya drafted it within the hour — three sentences, plain, unadorned, correcting the timeline without dignifying the insinuation attached to it. Elena read it once, made a single small change to the second sentence, and sent it back approved without further discussion, too tired by then to do more than trust the instincts she’d spent months sharpening. It ran everywhere by midnight, and largely, mercifully, it worked; by the next morning the story had begun, as these things did, to exhaust itself in favor of newer outrage elsewhere, the particular mercy of a news cycle that forgot almost everything eventually, given enough competing noise. But at two in the morning, while Damian slept on her

“When the client refused to pay, our agent exercised a standard penalty, and the casino wrote off the bargain as a bad debt.” “Which means?” Griff asked. His gaze dropped down to meet Griff’s. “This is most unusual.” “What?” I leaned forward, my eyes wide. “According to the ledger, you paid with your life, yet you’re not dead,” Edmund said.