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Chapter 54
The world stopped for a minute for Hermia as Adam stood before her new husband, Mike. She hadn't told him about Adam or that she had meeting with someone that evening. Adam looked at Mike from his gelled hair to his shining brown dress shoe and smirked. This is who she left my brother for, he thought, with that he left. His presence lingered as he was gone. Mike turned to his wife and was speechless. He opened his mouth to speak but nothing came out. "It's not what you think" Hermia abruptly stated "Then what is it?" He asked, suddenly finding his voice back Hermia returned his question with silence. "Let me tell you how this look like, it looks like you are cheating on me with your ex-husband after you found out that he wasn't actually poor" "That's not how it is, I won't leave you for that bastard, that wasn't even Xander that's Adam. I don't know the reason why he looks so much like Xander" Hermia defended. "It doesn't matter if it's Xander or Adam, I thought you've mov
Chapter 53
Hermia picked up her phone and check for any new message but found none. She clicked it off and place it on the couch beside her. She was waiting for Adam's message. He had told her wait for the address of their meeting place to be sent to her. That's what she did. She made herself look more presentable than just a regular business meeting, just in case. She picked her phone again and saw no new message. Swiftly she checked the time. It has only been two minutes since the last checked her phone but it felt like she had waited 10 minutes. The knock came like a challenge, slow, deliberate, three times. At the same time, her phone dinged. The long waited message had arrived. I'm here. It read. She frowned down at the message then the vintage clock that had stayed three generations. A single knock sounded again, reminding her it's presence. She wasn't expecting anyone. Even she cleared all her meetings just to meet the person that had promised her the fall of her ex-husband.She we
Chapter 52
Hunter woke up to the sound of sirens and muffled voices. It took him sometime to understand that it was a firefighter talking to him. "He is waking up" The person announced. Who is waking up? He thought. "What is the last thing you remember?" The person asked as he flash some kind of light into his eyes. "We were heading home before we got chase..." Hunter recalled. "Alexander!" He tried to seat up but was carefully pressed down before he became dizzy. "My partner is taking care of Mr. Cage..." The rest was all buzz until fell as sleep. The next time he woke up he was in a familiar space. The room he stayed in whenever he stayed over Xander's place. He grunted and rolled on his side in an attempt to leave the bed. That's when he felt the pinch on the back of his hand. E looked down to it. It was connected to an almost empty IV drip. He sat up slowly to avoid sudden dizziness. Luckily, he was alright. He pulled out the need from his hand skillfully as if he was used to doing so
Chapter 51
The door to the room Adam sat in clicked open. He didn't need to turn, he already knew who it was. He heard familiar quiet footsteps walk toward him and stopped beside him. Even in the darkness he could see his image clearly. His supposed blonde hair seemed darker due to the darkness. His slender body was covered in tight leather, exposing some certain areas like his arms and from his navel to his waist. "You still watching them" the slender guy said and rested his head on the head rest of the chair without much struggle. Partly because he was 5'4. "And I was about to send for you" Adam said and click on the video of Xander and Hunter. "Really" The younger man said, his voice went high by an octave and he tilted his head look at Adam's face. "And why were you going to ask for me" he slurred. "I wanted to send you out to play with them" Adam said and tilted his head towards the people on his screen. "Oh, that" the boy's voice came down an octave. "You really want me to play with t
Chapter 50
The city lights blurred past the tinted windows, but Xander wasn’t looking. He sat rigid in the back seat, fists clenched so tightly his knuckles were white. The air in the car was thick—tense, charged with the kind of silence that weighed down on Hunter like a stone.“Are you going to tell me where we’re going?” Hunter asked, keeping his eyes on the road.“My father,” Xander said flatly then his phone lit and he read the new message. "Change of plans, I sent you a location"At the same Hunters phone vibrated and he clicked on it and saw the GPS location."Who are we meeting there" he asked "Victor Dale" Hunter’s hands tightened on the steering wheel. “Victor? The ex–head of security?”Xander nodded once. “Fired two years ago. Quietly. No press, no drama. That’s not how my father handles things—unless he had something to hide.”Hunter let out a slow breath. “You think he’s behind the footage?”“I think he knows who is,” Xander replied. “Victor was the one who set up the old security
Chapter 49
Back at the Cage Mansion."They think they’ve won."Xander’s jaw tightened as he stared at the tablet in his hand. The breaking news headline glared back at him like a slap to the face.“Alexander Cage, new chairman of XL Conglomerate, caught stealing company secrets—Retaliation against his estranged father?”A video of him stealing soft copy files from the company database.He didn’t blink.His silence filled the office like smoke—thick, heavy, suffocating.Max stood nearby, frozen mid-step. “Young master, we—”“I know it’s a setup,” Xander said, cutting him off with a calm too controlled to be natural. “I just don’t know who pulled the trigger.”Max exchanged a tense glance with the bodyguard in the room but said nothing.Xander rose from the leather chair, one hand still gripping the tablet. His reflection stared back at him from the glass office wall. Not the man they used to mock. Not the broken husband. Not the “useless son-in-law.” This was someone else.Someone dangerous.“The
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