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CHAPTER 618
The room fell into an uneasy, shivering silence, broken only by the distant wail of a siren on the street below.Evelyn huddled in a corner, clutching a thin, scratchy motel towel around her shoulders, her eyes darting toward her mother-in-law, who meticulously smoothed out the silk gowns."We need to call her," Evelyn whispered, teeth chattering. "Maybe Tina didn’t run. Maybe she’s just hiding nearby, waiting for the dust to settle. If she has that emerald, we don’t have to sell… this." She gestured vaguely at the pile of lingerie.Vivian didn’t look up. "Try her. But don’t expect a miracle."Adeline grabbed the phone, the only one still holding a flicker of battery life. Her fingers fumbled as she dialed Tina’s private line.The three women stood in a tight, desperate circle, leaning in as the call began to ring.Ring… Ring… Ring…Inside the vibrating hull of the cargo plane, Tina’s phone buzzed in her discarded clutch.“ADELINE” flashed on the screen. Tina’s bruised fingers tigh
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Earlier that evening...While the rest of the Griffin family paraded their false confidence at the Royal Meridien, Tina had been left behind.She spent the last hour in her bedroom, fuming.Vivian had deemed her gown insufficiently regal for the gala, effectively grounding her while the others went to secure the family’s future.The massive mansion was eerily silent. Only the grandfather clock ticked in the hallway.Suddenly, a heavy thud echoed from the floor above, followed by the distinct sound of boots on hardwood heading straight toward her room.Her heart leaped. ‘One of them came for me’, she thought, a spark of hope rising. ‘Maybe she has a dress to give me.’"Adeline? Evelyn?" Tina called, pulling her robe tight as she hurried to the door. "I told you that dress wasn’t that bad! Did you change your—"She threw the door open, a smile forming… but it froze instantly.Standing in the dim hallway wasn’t Vivian or Evelyn.It was a man, towering, broad-shouldered, his thick, rubbe
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Harold had heard enough. He didn’t want to hear Tedmond’s name spoken again.After all, he still couldn’t believe he had been taken down by a child he had ignored and ruined for years.He wanted to believe Tedmond hadn’t done anything at all. He didn’t want to hear his name.“What board, Harold?” the guard interrupted, already moving away to continue his rounds. “The board of directors resigned at 1:00 a.m.”“The stock is at zero. Your ‘empire’ is a parking lot now. You should’ve stayed in your lane. Instead, you reached for the sun and turned to ash.”Harold let out a final, guttural scream of rage, shaking the bars until his hands bled.The only response was the heavy steel door at the end of the corridor slamming shut, leaving the three brothers in oppressive, silent darkness and the truth.***At the Mansion Gates,Back at the estate, the scene was no less brutal.Vivian stood at the edge of the road, her expensive silk heels sinking into damp grass.Behind her, Adeline and Evelyn
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The night was far from over.While the city’s news cycles were already churning out headlines about the Griffin Fall, the reality of that fall was only just beginning to settle into the bones of those left behind.The digital age ensured the Griffins’ humiliation wasn’t merely a local scandal; it was a global event.By the time the clock struck 2:00 a.m., the Griffin Fall was trending on every major social media platform.Every news station ran the same looping footage:Harold is being shoved into a police cruiser.Evelyn is screaming at the cameras.And the enigmatic Tedmond walking away beside a masked woman.“It’s being called the Midnight Liquidation,” a prominent news anchor announced, her face illuminated by harsh studio lights.“Sources confirm the Griffin Estate has filed for emergency Chapter 7 bankruptcy. This isn’t a restructuring, it’s a total collapse.”“Every asset, from the historic mansion to the family’s private fleet, is being seized to satisfy a debt reportedly reac
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“Tedmond! There are rumors you’re the one who alerted the Xinca Group! Are you moving to take over the family assets now that they’ve collapsed?” another reporter yelled.One reporter, a sharp-featured woman from the city’s leading financial news network, managed to block their path to the waiting black sedan.She ignored the chaos, her eyes fixed on the power radiating from the masked woman and the silent man beside her.“Mr. Griffin, one question for the public,” she pressed, her voice clear above the din. “With the Griffin Estate in total ruins and the three primary directors in custody, the city is wondering about the future.”“Is Xinca or Vander-Morgans going to pick up the pieces? Is your company going to absorb what’s left of the Griffin legacy?”Tedmond paused, his hand resting on the car door.He turned slightly, the glare of the cameras catching the sharp angle of his jaw and the cold glint in his eyes.“The Griffin legacy,” Tedmond said, his voice carrying cleanly through
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The elite of the city, once the Griffins' closest social alliesnow stood as their harshest judges.The air in the VIP lounge was thick with the scent of a fallen dynasty.“Exactly,” another investor said, tucking his checkbook back into his coat as if it were a weapon he had just narrowly avoided using.“He didn’t ask you to lie. He didn’t ask you to commit fraud in front of a hundred witnesses. He’s just standing there, bearing witness to the truth. If that’s what you call betrayal, then your family was built on a foundation of rot.”Evelyn’s face contorted, her composure shattering into a jagged mess of fury.She lunged toward Tedmond, fingers clawing at the air.“You set us up! You brought Thaddeus Locke here just to trap us! You’ve been planning this since the moment you walked in!”Tedmond didn’t flinch as a security guard held her back.“I didn’t bring him here to trap you, Evelyn,” he said, his voice a low, terrifyingly calm baritone. “I brought him here because we had business
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