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CHAPTER ONE The Monster in Plain Sight EVERYONE KNEW. NOT the specifics, maybe. Not the floorplans or the flight logs or what color the massage tables were. But something. Something was off. Something about that man — the too-smooth financier with no real origin story, no product, no pitch, just… power. And something about the way the world wrapped itself around him like a silk noose. His name would surface in rumors, in whispers, in blinds. You’d see it in a tabloid headline or tucked into a lawsuit that vanished by next week. Then a new photo would appear — smiling next to a prince, a president, a genius. And then it would disappear. Again. Scrubbed like it was never real. But it was. For...