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    While their cries filled the room, Dani tossed her keys onto the shoe cab, settled onto the couch, and turned on the television as if nothing unusual were happening. The screen disyed thetest news report on the fraud scandal. One image showed Josh stepping onto a private jet. The female news anchor spoke clearly. “We urge the public to stay alert and beware of financial scams.”


    The next morning, the inte lit up with a video of that familiar female anchor. She had been filmedte at night, drinking alone and speaking through her tears.


    In the footage, she broke down while ming McCoy Group. She’d put her money into the project, she said, because she believed in them. Now, she was left with nothing.


    Her makeup had melted down her cheeks, her sobbing too much for even the camera to ignore.<fnc107> N?w ?ovel chapt?rs are published on </fnc107>


    It didn’t take long for the public to explode in outrage. Across Oiscoll, the McCoy family became synonymous with cruelty. The rage was swift and unforgiving.


    A century of reputation copsed in a single night.


    Hamilton didn’t speak for a long while. He sat quietly, sifting through his thoughts until one question pushed its way forward. He turned to Dani. “You nned this, didn’t you?”


    He already knew the answer. Still, he needed to hear it.


    Few people could pull off something so precise — so destructive — and she was one of them.


    He had spent decades in the business world. Schemes weren’t new to him. “Ricardo must have said something to you. Did he tell you who was behind the explosion?”


    Dani didn’t answer. She kept her eyes on the television screen, unmoved by his words. Instead, she asked, “Do you know who did it?”


    Hamilton slowly shook his head. Suspicion had haunted him for years. But his father had made it clear that the issue should be left buried. No one ever dared to speak of it again.


    Still, whenever he tried to piece it together, the truth slipped further from reach. Dani caught the hesitation in his expression. That told her enough.


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    She turned her gaze back to the screen. “Then you shouldn’t interfere. It didn’t concern you back then, and it doesn’t concern you now.”


    Hamilton lowered his eyes, understanding where she stood. He didn’t think her anger was wrong. Any parent in her ce would feel the same.


    He let out a quiet breath. “I can stay out of it. But I want to ask you one thing.”


    Dani kept the remote in her hand, not saying a word.


    “Spare the innocent,” Hamilton said. “If you have toe after us — me, Josh, anyone in our generation — I won’t stop you. But don’t pull the other generations into this.”


    The blue light from the screen shifted across Dani’s expression. Her face showed no emotion. A pause hung in the air.


    While Hamilton wrestled with unease, Dani gave a quiet nod. “Okay.” She never meant to drag innocent people into this. What she wanted was fairness — nothing more.


    This wasn’t about power or money.


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