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(Alexander)The next morning, I instructed Lewis to triple our security team while trying to maintain a facade of normalcy for Romy’s sake. If she noticed the additional personnel or the changed protocols, she didn’t mention it.“I’m meeting with the foundation board at eleven,” she told me over breakfast. “Then lunch with your mother to discuss nursery designs.”“Take Wilson with you,” I said casually, referring to one of our security team. “Traffic’s been terrible downtown lately. He can navigate the shortcuts.”Romy raised an eyebrow. “Since when do I need a driver for routine meetings?”“Since I worry about my pregnant fiancée getting stuck in gridlock,” I replied, kissing her forehead. “Humor me.”She rolled her eyes but didn’t argue, which was a relief. I needed her protected without causing her unnecessary stress.Throughout the day, I barely focused on work, constantly checking Lewis’s security updates. Romy’s meetings went smoothly, no suspicious figures identified.I began t
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(Alexander)I paced my office, watching the digital clock tick toward the meeting time. Both Ethan and Nick had agreed to come, setting aside our business conflicts in the face of a security threat.Whether their cooperation would extend beyond this immediate crisis remained to be seen.The door opened as Lewis ushered them in. The tension was immediate—Nick’s rigid posture, Ethan’s neutral expression. Rivals forced into the same room.“Thank you for coming,” I said, gesturing to the chairs around my conference table. “This stays between us for now.”“Your message mentioned Robert’s people,” Nick said, settling into a chair. “What’s happened?”I outlined the situation—Verati’s appearance at the gala, the surveillance, the threatening gift acknowledging Romy’s pregnancy.“They believe she has access to Robert’s hidden accounts,” I surmised. “Accounts we didn’t even know existed until now.”“Where is Romy?” Ethan asked, his security instincts evident in his rapid assessment of the threa
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(Alexander)Despite the late hour, the pediatric ward was bustling with activity. I found Nick in the hallway outside Fleur’s room, speaking intently with a doctor.“Alexander,” he acknowledged when he saw me. “Thanks for coming.”“How is she?” I asked, referring to both Fleur and my sister.“Fleur’s stable,” Nick replied after the doctor departed. “Temporary setback before the Boston transfer. Lila, on the other hand…”He gestured through the door’s window. Inside, Lila sat vigilant beside Fleur’s crib, her back rigid with exhaustion and stress. She’d pushed chairs against the door and rearranged furniture to block direct sight lines to the crib.“Has she slept?” I asked, noting the dark circles under my sister’s eyes.“Not really,” Nick admitted. “Since I told her about the security threat, she’s been…intense.”“You told her everything?”“She deserved to know,” Nick defended. “But now she won’t leave Fleur’s side for even a minute. Won’t let the nurses take her for tests without acc
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(Nick)I stood at the window of my office, watching rain streak down the glass. The Boston treatment for Fleur had begun three days ago, and though early reports were promising, the separation was killing me.Lila had remained at the hospital, sleeping on a cot beside our daughter’s bed, while I shuttled between Boston and New York, trying to manage both family crisis and business obligations.My phone rang. Harlow’s name flashed on the screen.“Any news?” I asked immediately.“Not about your daughter,” Harlow replied. “But there’s a visitor in the lobby requesting to see you. Miss Renaud.”The name made me stagger back. Miss Renaud? Jean-Paul’s daughter, the little girl Lila and I had named our own child after, the daughter who’d lost her father to my actions?“Fleur? Is her mother with her?”“Not his daughter,” said Harlow. “His sister Victoire.”“Victoire…yes, I remember. His little sister…did she say what she wants?” I asked, my throat tight.“Only that it’s important. She’s been
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(Ethan)I scanned the tabloid headline in horror.BALDWIN-MONTGOMERY FAMILY FEUD: SHIPPING WARS AND PATERNITY QUESTIONS.The article beneath was worse—a detailed exposé on our business conflict, speculation about Fleur’s biological parentage referencing Grace’s old comments, and thinly veiled references to Nick’s “criminal past” in shipping.“How did they get this information?” I demanded, slamming the paper down on our kitchen counter. “The details about your past were never public!”Nick looked grim, scrolling through similar stories on his tablet. “Someone leaked it. The question is who.”“It has to be someone close to us,” I said, pacing the kitchen. “Someone with access to private family information.”“You think Maxwell…?”“No,” said Lila firmly. “He wouldn’t. He promised me.”The elevator dinged, announcing Ethan’s arrival with James for his weekend visit. My stomach knotted. How much had James already seen or heard at school?“Hey Uncle Nick! Hey Aunt Lila!” James called, bound
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(Ethan)I watched James pick at his breakfast, pushing scrambled eggs around his plate without eating.“You need to eat something before school,” I said gently.“I’m not going,” he replied, not looking up. “I told you yesterday.”“James,” I sighed, sitting beside him. “You can’t hide from this. Running away doesn’t solve problems.”“Everyone’s talking about it,” he muttered. “Calling us weird. Saying Uncle Nick is a murderer.”“Those are adult situations that children shouldn’t be discussing,” I tried to explain. “And they certainly don’t have all the facts.”“Then what are the facts?” James challenged, finally meeting my eyes. “Did Uncle Nick really kill someone?”I considered my response carefully. “Something terrible happened many years ago. A man died, and Uncle Nick was involved. But it’s much more complicated than what the news is saying.”“So he did kill someone?”“James—”“Just tell me the truth!” he demanded, his voice cracking. “Everyone else knows!”Before I could respond,
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(Ethan)“I don’t think that’s a good idea right now, buddy,” I replied. “With everything else going on—”“But if she’s better,” James persisted, “maybe she won’t be mean anymore.”The hope in his voice broke my heart. Despite everything Grace had done, she was still his mother—the only one he’d known until Cara entered our lives.“It’s more complicated than that,” I tried to explain. “People don’t just get ‘fixed’ in therapy. It takes time, consistent effort—”“But you just said people can change,” James interrupted. “Like how Uncle Nick accidentally killed someone, but he is a good person now.”“This is different,” I insisted.“Why?”The simple question stopped me short. From a child’s perspective, the distinction wasn’t clear. We taught forgiveness, second chances, and redemption, then withheld those very things when it came to Grace.Cara touched my arm gently. “Perhaps we should discuss this more before making any decisions.”I nodded, grateful for the reprieve. “James, finish you
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(Ethan)I gripped the steering wheel tightly as we approached Pine Grove Rehabilitation Center.James sat silently in the backseat, dressed in his nicest clothes as if for a special occasion. Cara rode beside me, her presence both professional and personal support.“Remember what we discussed,” she said quietly. “The first few minutes will set the tone. Stay neutral, watch James’s cues, and be prepared to end the meeting if necessary.”I nodded tensely. We’d spent the week preparing for this moment—consulting other therapists, establishing ground rules, designing a safe environment for the reunion.Still, my stomach twisted with anxiety.“Is Lila coming?” James asked from the backseat.“No, buddy,” I replied. “Just us today.”“Because she doesn’t want me to see Mom?”The perceptiveness of children never ceased to amaze me. “She’s concerned, that’s all, but she respects that this is important to you.”The facility looked more like a resort than a psychiatric center, with trimmed ground
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(Lila)Fleur’s laughter rang through the room as we all stared, bewildered, at the crib. I rushed over, scooping her into my arms, frantically checking for any sign of distress. She only giggled harder, reaching for my face.“What did he do?” I demanded, turning to the others.Nick was already beside us, his hands gently examining Fleur. “Nothing, as far as I can tell. She seems perfectly fine.”On the screen, Krane smiled. “Fascinating, isn’t it? The expectation of pain creates more fear than pain itself. You’ve just experienced the fundamental principle of fear architecture—the anticipation is the weapon, not the event.”“Shut it off,” I hissed at the technicians.“No, wait,” Carter countered, signaling them to continue tracing. “We need to keep him talking.”Krane continued as if he could hear our debate. “You believe you’ve reclaimed your narrative, Lila. That by confronting your trauma, you’ve disarmed it. But fear isn’t rational. It lives in the space between threat and action—t
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(Lila)“James is fine,” Ethan’s voice came through the phone, tight with fear. “We’ve tripled his security detail. Nobody’s getting near him.”“You’re sure?” I pressed, pacing the hotel suite.“I’m with him right now,” Ethan assured me. “Playing video games with two armed agents in the room.”After Krane’s message, we’d immediately verified everyone’s safety. Ethan and Cara had James at a separate secure location. Romy remained under Alexander’s protective detail at yet another facility. Nick and Ethan’s parents were overseas, surrounded by private security. My parents were downstairs.“They’re trying to destabilize us,” Carter explained as I ended the call. “Classic psychological warfare—implying vulnerability without actually demonstrating it.”“Like the basement,” I murmured, the memory rising unbidden.Nick looked up sharply. “What?”“In the basement, twenty years ago.” I sank into a chair, Fleur sleeping in my arms. “They never actually hurt us physically. They just made us belie
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(Lila)I pressed my back against the headboard of the hotel bed, watching Fleur sleep in the portable crib the FBI had arranged. After three days in this new, supposedly secure hotel, I still jumped at every sound, checked every corner.The suite door opened as Nick and Alexander returned from their latest security briefing. Nick crossed immediately to Fleur’s crib, his shoulders finally relaxing when he saw her sleeping peacefully.“Any news?” I asked quietly.“We’ve identified three more Sterling operatives,” Nick replied, sinking onto the edge of the bed. “Two hotel employees at our previous location and a driver from my company.”“Grace confirmed all three,” Alexander added, loosening his tie. “Her intel has been solid.”The past seventy-two hours had transformed our situation. After Grace’s revelation, the FBI had moved us to a military-grade secure facility disguised as a boutique hotel. Grace had been debriefed continuously, identifying Sterling’s people and methodologies in de
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(Lila)Fleur’s screams tore through me as I clutched her against my chest. Her tiny body shook violently, her eyes wild with a terror no baby should ever know.“Make it stop!” I pleaded, rocking her desperately. “What’s happening to her?”The FBI agents swarmed around us, checking equipment, scanning for signals, searching for whatever had triggered my daughter’s sudden panic.“Sonic frequency,” Grace said suddenly from her corner of the hotel suite. She’d been so quiet I’d almost forgotten she was there. Now she stood, walking toward us. “Robert used it on his targets. Infrasound—you can’t hear it, but it creates terror, panic.”“Shut down all devices,” Agent Carter ordered the room sharply. “Now!”Nick yanked cords from walls while agents deactivated equipment. Fleur’s screams gradually subsided, replaced by hiccupping sobs against my shoulder.“How did you know?” I asked Grace shakily.“Robert loved psychological weapons,” she replied, watching Fleur with genuine concern. “Said inf
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(Nick)Jonathan Montgomery froze at the accusation as its poison spread through the room. He sat on the hotel suite sofa, looking suddenly older and more vulnerable than I’d ever seen him.“Dad?” Lila prompted, her voice barely above a whisper. “Is it true? Did you know Victor Krane before the kidnapping?”Jonathan stared at his hands. “Not as Krane. He used a different name then—Vincent Kemp. Security consultant specializing in executive protection.”I swore violently, turning away to control my rage. Ethan remained perfectly still, his face blank with disbelief.“You brought him into our lives?” Ethan asked finally, gritted his teeth between words.“He came highly recommended,” Jonathan replied weakly. “Multiple endorsements from colleagues in the industry. Impressive credentials.”“And he suggested Blackwood’s services,” Alexander stated flatly. “Connected you.”Jonathan nodded miserably. “Said Blackwood was the best in the business. Discrete, thorough. I had no idea they were work
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(Nick)The elevator descended to the hotel lobby in silence. I stood with Ethan, Carter and two armed agents, leaving Alexander to protect Lila and Fleur in the secure suite. The phone connection with Blackwood had ended abruptly after Malcolm Chambers’ arrival was announced.“This is obviously a trap,” Ethan muttered, adjusting his jacket nervously.“Of course it is,” I agreed tightly. “But if Chambers is here in person, it’s our best opportunity to end this.”Carter checked her sidearm discreetly. “Remember, we need him alive and talking. He’s our direct link to Blackwood and Krane.”The elevator doors opened to reveal a transformed hotel lobby. Most civilians had been evacuated, replaced by FBI agents positioned strategically throughout the space.In the center, sitting calmly in a leather armchair as if waiting for a business meeting, was a man in his late forties with salt-and-pepper hair and expensive glasses.“Malcolm Chambers, I presume,” I said coldly as we approached.The ma
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(Nick)The voice on Lila’s phone continued smoothly. “Your father commissioned quite an elaborate project. ‘Generational intervention’ was the term he preferred.”“Who is this?” I demanded, moving to Lila’s side.“Ah, Nicholas Baldwin,” the voice acknowledged. “The man who built an empire on another man’s grave. How fitting that we should all converge now.”“Kenneth Blackwood,” Carter said into the phone, taking control of the situation. “This is Special Agent Carter, FBI. We’ve located your Connecticut property. Your archives are now in federal custody.”A pause, then a soft laugh. “Merely one of many repositories, Agent Carter. Though I’m impressed you found it. Your reputation is well-deserved.”Jonathan lunged for the phone. “Blackwood! Tell them the truth, damn you! I never hired you to take my daughter!”“Semantics, Jonathan,” Blackwood replied dismissively. “You paid for a comprehensive fear architecture program. The specific methodologies were left to our discretion.”“You’re
Billionaire, I'm No Longer Yours Chapter 112 Blackwood’s Shadow
(Nick)“They can’t possibly be watching us here,” Lila insisted, as FBI agents swept the hotel room for surveillance devices. “We’re under federal protection.”I paced the perimeter, checking every corner, every vent, every light fixture. “We thought our homes were secure too.”Grace huddled in an armchair, watching the activity. Since the coordinated attacks had begun, she’d remained mostly silent, seemingly lost in her own thoughts.“Grace,” Agent Carter approached her directly. “We need everything you know about Kenneth Blackwood.”Grace looked up, startled. “I told you what Robert said—”“Not enough,” I interrupted sharply. “They’re targeting our children. If you know anything else, anything at all…”“I-I might,” Grace admitted reluctantly. “I didn’t think it was important before.”Ethan moved closer, sitting across from his ex-wife. “What do you remember?”Grace twisted her fingers nervously. “Robert kept a box of mementos. Things that gave him power, he said. There was a photogr
