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Chapter 94 - SMOKE AND ECHOES

ETHAN'S POV

The day felt longer than most.

The air hung thick, even inside the Kingsley Tower, and I couldn't shake the sense that something massive was about to break.

Like a storm hovering just beyond the skyline, watching, waiting.

I stood in the heart of my private office, surrounded by walls that had once made me feel powerful. Today, they felt like glass. See-through. Fragile.

The folder Carl had handed Ava, it hadn't just cracked open the mystery. It had detonated it.

Every document we had skimmed through was a doorway into something older, darker, and far more tangled than I'd expected.

Financial trails led to dummy accounts. Dummy accounts led to shell corporations. And all of them pointed back to one of the oldest Kingsley family trusts, a name I hadn't heard in over a decade.

Black Harbor.

The name felt like a bruise. It used to be the family's offshore holding, legally dissolved in public record, but apparently not in practice.

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