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Chapter 241: The Audience

(Aurora’s POV)

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The audience was exactly as overwhelming as I’d feared. Rows of faces, camera lenses catching the light, senior executives in the front section with the still, evaluating attention of people who had seen a hundred presentations and were waiting to be disappointed.

My chest tightened.

Then I found the front row, center.

Phineas sat with his jacket buttoned, posture straight, eyes on me. The same expression as every practice session. The same fixed point.

My shoulders dropped half an inch. I walked to the center of the stage.

“Good afternoon.” My voice came out clear. “What I’m about to show you represents three years of

foundational research and eight months of applied development.”

I didn’t look away from him.

The next twenty minutes moved the way the practice sessions had – not perfectly, but smoothly. I walked them through the bioactive scaffold, the mechanism for guided cellular regeneration, the degradation timeline. The diagrams on the screen behind me did half the work. I did the other half.

When I reached the closing line, I lifted my head and said it to the room, not just to him.

“This technology marks the beginning of

The applause started in the front row.

new era in regenerative medicine.”

Phineas was already clapping when I looked at him. His face hadn’t changed much – still composed, still

I

controlled – but his sheld something that I recognized because I had been watching that face for

months now. Pride. Clean and uncomplicated and entirely genuine.

I smiled at him before I could stop myself.

He held my gaze for one moment, then looked away, and I turned back to the room as the applause built around me.

(Author’s POV)

In his office across the city, Jasper watched the livestream on his desktop screen.

The Everett Global launch had been on his radar for weeks – a competitor product in a space where Aether had just committed hundreds of millions to its own development pipeline. He’d pulled up the stream to assess the damage.

The technical overlap was worse than he’d expected. The scaffold architecture, the degradation pathway. the cellular targeting mechanism – the approaches were nearly identical. His team had spent eighteen

Chapter 241 The Audience

months on this. Everett had beaten them to market by a clean margin, and the presentation made it effortless.

He sat very still, watching the screen.

Then the camera cut to a wider angle, and he saw who was standing at the podium.

Aurora.

He didn’t move for a long time. She was mid-sentence, composed and precise, walking a room full of executives through research that was clearly hers. Not borrowed. Not performed. Hers.

The camera held on her face as she delivered the closing line.

Jasper stared at the screen after the applause began, and said nothing.

The livestream cut out, and Jasper was already reaching for his phone.

He called Arthur first. It rang four times and went to voicemail.

He called Phineas. Busy signal.

He set the phone down on his desk and stared at the blank screen for a moment. Both of them, unavailable, at the same time, on the same afternoon. He wasn’t naive enough to think that was a coincidence.

He grabbed his keys.

William was in the sitting room at the estate when Jasper arrived, settled into his armchair with a cup of

coffee and the particular stillness of a man who had been expecting company. He looked up when Jasper

walked in but didn’t stand.

“Jasper.” His tone was neutral. “This is a surprise.”

“Is it?” Jasper stayed on his feet. “You watched the Everett Global launch today?”

“I don’t follow every product announcement.”

“Then let me summarize.” Jasper kept his voice controlled. “The bioactive scaffold architecture your son’s team just presented to the market is identical in approach to the project I’ve had in development for eighteen months. The one I invested hundreds of millions into after Arthur personally encouraged me to

back it.”

William leaned back in his chair. “Phineas and Arthur run the company. I don’t involve myself in operational decisions.”

“You don’t involve yourself.” Jasper repeated it back slowly. “I came into this without a single due diligence report. I trusted the family. That’s the only reason I moved that kind of capital.”

“That was your decision to make.”

“And now my investment is bleeding out while Everett Global rings the opening bell.” The control in

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Jasper’s voice developed a crack. “I’m not asking for an apology. I’m asking for a meeting. Arthur, Phineas, whoever is responsible – I want a formal explanation.”

William’s expression shifted. The neutrality sharpened into something colder. “Are you suggesting that people in this family deliberately moved against you?”

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