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Chapter 162: Shadows of the Past  

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With the East African venture nearing crowning glory and international recognition growing, Paulina located herself busier than ever. Meetings, interviews, and making plans sessions ate up her days. But regardless of the ahead momentum, there has been a continual sense of unease creeping into her lifestyle an echo of the beyond refusing to be silenced.

Leila knocked on her office door late one nighttime, her expression serious. “Paulina, I suppose you want to see this.”

Paulina set down her pen, already sensing trouble. “What is it?”

Leila handed her a tablet. “It’s an anonymous electronic mail we acquired through the enterprise’s standard inbox. It claims to have statistics about something your father changed into operating on before he died. Something that might explain why Vincent focused your circle of relatives.”

Paulina’s coronary heart raced as she scanned the message. It noted a “Project Nexus,” a confidential initiative her father had allegedly been developing within
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