Chapter 7 - The Notification
An extreme, cinematic close-up focused tightly on the smartphone screen in Elias’s hand.
The bright morning sunlight illuminated the bold, highly secure banking notification that popped up across his lock screen.
Deposit Confirmed: $88,000,000.00 - Tech Patent Acquisition. Apex International.
The sheer, staggering weight of the number was absolute. Eighty-eight million dollars. It wasn't stock options. It wasn't a corporate promise. It was cold, hard, liquid cash successfully cleared and deposited directly into his personal, private account.
Elias stared down at the screen. His heartbeat remained entirely steady. The years of struggling, the late nights coding in a cramped apartment, and the agonizing betrayal of having his previous work stolen were completely, permanently erased in a single digital transaction.
He was no longer a lowly software engineer. He was a multi-millionaire, completely free from the toxic, suffocating chains of the corporate world.
He slowly locked the phone and slid it right back into the pocket of his dark jeans.
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Greg scoffed, completely oblivious to the fact that he was standing in front of a man who could now buy their entire building. "What, checking your bank balance? Trying to see if you can afford lunch today?"
👉 How will the newly minted multi-millionaire respond to their final insult?
