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Chapter Five is a reckoning in motion.
It opens in the quiet tension of a hotel hallway, where Rhys finally comes face to face with Maddox—away from the crowd, away from witnesses, with nowhere to hide behind small talk. What follows is a conversation that has been deferred for twenty years: careful at first, then increasingly direct.
This chapter is buil…
