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Chapter Two Hundred and Seventy-Three
Author: Elvis Brown
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Richard’s mind raced, a maelstrom of conflicting thoughts and emotions swirling within him. He had always imagined that wealth and power would be the answers to all his struggles. But now, as he sat in the back of the black luxury car, he realized that those things had only brought more problems. More responsibility. More enemies. More danger. He thought he had been running from these very things, seeking nothing more than a peaceful, simple life. Yet now, his reality was anything but simple. The weight of his new identity pressed on him like a boulder—unrelenting and suffocating.

“Why didn’t you tell me sooner?” Richard’s voice cracked, the harshness of the words betraying the raw emotion that had been building inside him. The floodgates were opening, and there was nothing he could do to stop it. “I could’ve prepared. I could’ve—”

“I had to protect you,” George’s voice cut through the tension, sharp but not unkind. “You were not ready, and I had to keep you safe until the time was rig
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