My Milf Conqueror System novel Chapter 85

Chapter 85: The D.C Beachhead

Wednesday, 4:00 PM. Georgetown, Washington D.C.

Silicon Valley had been a sterile, sun-drenched landscape of glass, steel, and algorithmic precision. Washington D.C. was something else entirely. It was a city built on a swamp, both literally and metaphorically. The air was thick with humidity, the architecture was heavy, imposing neoclassical stone, and the power didn’t hum in server racks—it whispered in the dark corners of expensive steakhouses.

We didn’t rent a corporate office this time. D.C. didn’t respect tech startups; it respected old money and established roots. Instead, using Vanguard’s untraceable funds, I had leased a massive, historic, four-story brick townhouse in the heart of Georgetown. It came fully furnished with antique mahogany, Persian rugs, and a state-of-the-art security system that Darius had spent the last three hours ripping out and replacing with our own.

I stood in the master study on the second floor, pouring myself a glass of bourbon from a crystal decanter.

The door opened, and the inner circle walked in.

Nia immediately claimed the large oak desk, dropping her heavy encrypted laptop onto the polished wood and beginning to untangle a mess of fiber-optic cables. Darius took up a position by the window, his massive frame blocking out the afternoon sun as he scanned the street below, his eyes constantly moving.

And then there was Ethan.

I had flown him in from campus first thing this morning after a slight change of plans. He walked into the study looking like he had been born to live in Georgetown. He wore a perfectly tailored, light-grey linen suit with no tie, the top two buttons of his crisp white shirt undone. He had that effortless, infuriatingly charming smile that had made him the king of our high school, and the exact kind of easygoing charisma that made people want to tell him their secrets.

"I gotta say, Jake," Ethan said, whistling low as he looked around the opulent study, running a hand over the leather spine of an antique book. "When you said you needed me for a consulting gig, I thought we were going to be crunching spreadsheets in a cubicle. This is... this is James Bond level."

"Spreadsheets are for the people we hire, Ethan," I said, taking a sip of the bourbon. It burned smoothly down my throat. "We’re here to play a different game."

I walked over to the center of the room, setting my glass down. I looked at the three of them. My hacker, my muscle, and my social chameleon.

"Listen up," I said, my voice dropping into the authoritative cadence the System had taught me. "We are in enemy territory. The woman we are going after is Senator Margaret Hale. She is the head of the Senate Finance Committee. She has the FBI, the SEC, and the DOJ on speed dial. She is ruthless, she is brilliant, and she is currently sitting on a two-billion-dollar slush fund of seized federal assets that we need to steal to power the Oracle-Artemis Singularity."

Ethan blinked, his charming smile faltering for a second. "Wait. We’re robbing a United States Senator? Jake, I thought we were just doing corporate espionage. This is treason."

"It’s only treason if you lose," I said smoothly. "If you win, it’s called lobbying."

I turned to Nia. "What’s our digital footprint?"

"I’ve established the front," Nia said, her fingers flying across her keyboard. "We are now officially ’Apex Strategies,’ a boutique, high-end political consulting and lobbying firm. I’ve backdated our incorporation, fabricated a client list of European energy conglomerates, and seeded our names into the D.C. registry. Digitally, we belong here."

"Good," I said. I turned to Ethan. "Your job is the ground game. D.C. doesn’t run on the Senate floor. It runs in the bars on Capitol Hill. It runs on the gossip of twenty-four-year-old legislative aides, interns, and junior chiefs of staff. They know who is sleeping with who, who is taking bribes, and where the bodies are buried."

I walked over to Ethan and clapped a hand on his shoulder.

"I need you to do what you do best, Ethan. I need you to go to those bars. Buy them drinks. Flirt with them. Charm them. I need you to map the social network of Senator Hale’s office from the bottom up. Find out who her fixers are, who her bagmen are, and who she trusts."

Ethan’s smile returned, wider and more genuine this time. This was his element. "So, you want me to go out, get drunk on the company credit card, and sleep with congressional staffers for intel?"

"Exactly," I said.

"I can do that," Ethan grinned, adjusting his cuffs. "I can definitely do that."

Nia gave him a side eye before turning away shaking her head in disappointment.

"Darius," I said, turning to the window. "You’re on counter-surveillance. Hale has a private security detail that makes Vanguard look like mall cops. If they catch a whiff of us probing her network, they will come for us. Keep the perimeter secure."

"Nobody gets within a block of this house without me knowing," Darius grunted.

"Alright," I said. "Get to work."

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