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CHAPTER 626
The air in the room vanished, replaced by a raw, jagged panic.The low, professional murmurs of the gallery spiked into a chorus of terror.Reporters scrambled over one another, the sound of heavy benches scraping against the floorboards echoing like thunder."He has a gun! Get down!" someone shrieked from the back.A woman’s sharp, piercing scream cut through the chaos, followed by the frantic sobbing of a clerk who had crawled beneath a desk."TEDMOND!" Harold roared again, the sound tearing from his throat like an animal's.Tedmond didn’t hesitate.In a single he stepped in front of Persis.
CHAPTER 625
“Order!” The Judge hammered his gavel until the room fell into a deathly silence.He leaned over the bench, eyes fixed on the three brothers.“I have sat on this bench for thirty years. I have seen killers, thieves, and monsters. But rarely do I see men who look at the lives they’ve destroyed… lives of their own blood and lives of the poor and demand ‘fairness.’”Flipping through the final pages of the indictment, he continued,“The evidence provided by the whistleblower, who, for the record, has delivered more forensic proof than I’ve seen in a decade, is overwhelming. The accidental deaths resulted from grade-four steel being used where grade-one was required. You traded lives for profit margins. And the treatment of the minor in your care…”The Judge’s eyes softened briefly as they flicked to Tedmond, then hardened again.“It is a miracle he survived you at all.”“We didn’t know!” Harold pleaded, voice now a pathetic whine. “The contractors lied to us!”“The signatures on the cost-
CHAPTER 624
Tedmond didn’t reply.He walked toward his car, Thomas already holding the door open.As the sedan pulled away, leaving the prison and the name Griffin in the rearview mirror, Tedmond caught his reflection in the tinted glass. The revenge was complete. For the first time in years, the air he breathed felt entirely his own.*****Despite the winter chill outside, the central courtroom sweltered. The air conditioning had failed under the strain of the packed gallery, and the heat from camera lights turned the room into an oven. The thick scent of old wood, sweat, and the electric tension of a falling dynasty clung to the air.The heavy doors at the back swung open. Silence fell. Tedmond entered.To his right, Thomas remained watchful and composed. To his left, Persis moved with effortless grace, her presence commanding enough to make frantic reporters lower their microphones.They took seats in the front row, directly behind the prosecution. Tedmond folded his hands, face a mask
CHAPTER 623
Seeing the look on Tedmond’s face, confusion flared across Harold’s.“What do you mean?”Tedmond chuckled.“She is indeed my partner, Harold. But the money? The empire? That isn’t hers. It’s mine.”Harold scoffed, a flicker of old arrogance returning.“Yours? Don’t be ridiculous. Since when do you have anything? Even if you’d started a small business five years ago, it wouldn’t have grown into an entity capable of swallowing the Griffin Group. You were a nobody.”“It was my mother’s business,” Tedmond said quietly.Harold froze. The name of the woman he had discarded decades ago seemed to hang in the stale air like a ghost. Then, he began to laugh, a sharp, mocking sound.“Your mother? That beggar? That thief? Tedmond, she didn’t have a cent to her name when I kicked her out!”“She wasn’t a beggar, Harold. And she certainly wasn’t a thief,” Tedmond’s gaze turned lethal, voice dropping to a dangerous whisper.“She was the daughter of an incredibly wealthy, powerful family who chose t
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Thomas paused, studying the decrypted message on his screen.“Actually… no. After the courier left, she sat in the dirt and cried for a long time. But when she stood, she looked… peaceful. She smiled, sir. Took her harvest and went back inside to cook.”Tedmond’s posture shifted. Brow furrowing in a rare moment of genuine surprise, he turned. Rage had been expected. A woman shattered by the loss of her vanity seemed inevitable. Peace, however, had not.A quiet, contemplative look crossed his face. Perhaps the surgery had been more successful than intended.“Keep a quiet eye on her,” he said softly. “Don’t interfere. Let her live.”Silence settled over the penthouse, Evelyn’s quiet resignation lingering in the air. It was a variable he hadn’t fully accounted for, a woman who worshipped gold, finding solace in soil.Glancing down at his own clean, manicured hands, Tedmond felt a fleeting sense of closure.“Thomas,” his voice sharpened once more. “Clear my schedule for the afternoo
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Tedmond’s expression didn’t soften; if anything, his features settled into a mask of absolute indifference.He picked up his tablet and swiped through a list of blocked numbers, a digital graveyard of the people who had once dictated his every breath.“They already tried to call Tina,” Tedmond said, his voice a low, melodic baritone. “She is currently being transported to a place where her voice will never be heard again.”His expression didn’t change.“They’ll try their high-priced lawyers next, and they’ll find the lines disconnected and the retainers emptied. If they try to call me…”He looked at the black screen of the device.“…let them listen to the dial tone. It’s the most honest conversation I’ve had with them in years. A Griffin only begs when they’ve run out of people to bully. I have no interest in hearing the sound of a predator losing its teeth.”Thomas bowed slightly, acknowledging the finality in his master’s tone.“Understood, young master. I will ensure that no commun
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