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Chapter 10 - The Sovereign Horizon — The final chapter unfolds one year later on a sun-drenched autumn morning at the newly dedicated Claire Bennett-Kane Community Park & Maritime Pavilion along the Chicago River. Standing on the elevated observation deck overlooking the water, Claire—now six months pregnant—looks out at the horizon alongside Gabriel, holding toddler Eli between them. The debts are dead, the past is buried, and the empire belongs entirely, beautifully, and permanently to them.

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