Tokyo!
The private jet touched down in the pre dawn quiet of Tokyo’s Haneda Airport, glinting against the runway lights. Inside, Ares sat with his phone in hand, scrolling through encrypted emails and spreadsheets, his face lit by the glow of the screen. Numbers, transfers, shell accounts, everything was in motion. By the time the world realized what he had done, his empire would no longer be rooted in the United States. It would be here, in Japan, where no one, not even his parents would be able to touch him.
Only Julian knew.
Julian, his most trusted confidant, had been with him since the first whispers of betrayal from Tessa and Ayisha. It was Julian who helped coordinate the silent relocation of several of Ares’s most profitable businesses: the technology import firm, the shipping
