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Chapter 551
Chapter 551:
“This is far too expensive,” June said, her voice dropping to something sharp and precise. “Those are Alba White Truffles. They require a specialized cold-chain import process that only Michelin-starred establishments maintain. A boutique inn does not serve this as a complimentary breakfast. Who sent this p>
The owner’s composure cracked. Her hands began to tremble.
“I — I bought them at the local market!” she blurted, clinging to the story.
“Don’t lie to me,” June said, her tone cutting cleanly through the room. “The local market does not carry seasonal Italian truffles. Someone with serious capital is behind this. Who is it p>
The owner gasped. Both hands flew to her mouth, her face draining to chalk. Every carefully constructed layer of her cover story collapsed simultaneously under the weight of June’s interrogation.
𝗪𝗁𝘢t 𝗲𝗏𝘦𝘳yoո𝖾 𝗶𝗌 𝗋𝘦𝗮𝖽𝘪ո𝗀 𝗼n
The room went silent.
June’s eyes narrowed into cool, calculating slits.
“Tell me who it is p>
The owner trembled. Crawford’s expression from the night before flashed in her memory — that cold, absolute, annihilating look — and she scrambled desperately to salvage the situation.
“The — the big boss!” she stammered, perspiration appearing at her temples. “The owner of the inn! It’s a hidden VIP perk — a secret marketing strategy for our top-tier suites p>
Frantic to change the subject, she reached onto the lower shelf of the cart, produced a vinyl record, and practically dropped it onto the bed.
“This is also part of the perk! Please enjoy!” She turned and fled the room, pulling the door shut firmly behind her.
June sat in the quiet that followed, staring at the closed door.
She picked up the vinyl record. It was a pristine first-pressing edition of a Miles Davis album — her absolute favorite, a collector’s item that had not been available on the open market in years.
Targeted medical-grade pharmaceuticals. Alba White Truffles. A priceless, personally chosen vinyl record.
The coincidences were not coincidences. They were too precise, too specific, too loudly calibrated to her exact preferences to be anything other than deliberate.
June threw off the covers and crossed to the window. The Pacific stretched out before her, vast and restless, waves breaking white against the rocks far below. She barely saw it. Her mind was already working.
She knew exactly what this meant. An enormous, invisible hand — backed by the kind of capital that didn’t need to announce itself — was operating in the background, arranging her environment, wrapping itself around her movements without her consent.
She had just escaped one cage. She was not walking blindly into another.
June went to her purse and took out her phone. She opened a browser and began running a deep search on the corporate holding company behind the Cliffside Breeze.
She would find the name. She always did.
June sat on the edge of the plush sofa in the presidential suite, her laptop open on her knees, the screen casting a cold blue light across her face.
She had pushed the porcelain bowl of Alba white truffle soup to the far end of the coffee table. The rich, earthy aroma that usually signaled luxury now made her stomach turn. She had no appetite whatsoever.