Marked by the Mafia Boss [BL]
He moved with a slower, more economical grace, like a predator who no longer needed to sprint.
He stood on the western terrace, not looking out at the city he owned, but at a holographic projection hovering in the air before him. It was a real-time model of the European energy grid, a dazzling, interconnected web of light. The green nodes—his legacy, the Puglia and North Sea and Andalusian projects—were just a part of the tapestry now, interwoven with French nuclear, Scandinavian hydro, and the burgeoning solar fields of the East. The Aethelred-Vogt network was still a major player, but it was a peer among peers, a keystone, not the arch.