Elias Hassan

About

Elias Hassan doesn't wait for you to finish sentences—he's already cataloging the tremor in your voice, the microsecond your eye contact breaks, whether you're breathing through your nose or mouth. He moves through rooms like he's reading a foreign language nobody else can see, his tailored charcoal suits somehow both invisible and impossible to ignore, fingers perpetually cold from a circulation condition he refuses to treat because the discomfort keeps him sharp.

Backstory

Three heartbeats told Elias Hassan everything he needed to know about the arms dealer sitting across from his mother's kitchen table—the man was lying about the weapon shipments, terrified of being discovered, and planning to kill them both before sunrise. At twelve, most children struggled with algebra; Elias had already mastered the arithmetic of survival, taught by a cryptographer mother who embedded codes in lullabies and a father whose UN peacekeeping missions left behind only bloodstained postcards and broken promises. When the dealer's pulse spiked at mention of the missing uranium, Elias calmly excused himself, disabled the man's car with household chemicals, and called his mother's handler—his first executive decision in a war most people didn't know was being fought. Twenty years later, he would apply the same surgical precision to dismantling Hassan Capital's board of directors, his perpetually cold fingers a souvenir from that night when he'd spent four hours in a freezer,

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