Chapter: Chapter 128The phone call came at 11:47 p.m.Kai was already awake. The sound of the ringtone cut through the dark like a knife. He sat up fast, heart slamming in his chest.Damien was beside him, phone in hand.The screen showed an unknown number.Kai’s mouth went dry.Damien answered on speaker.The voice on the other end was calm. Almost polite.“Kai Lennox. Or should I say, brother of Kaicen Lennox. How sweet. I have your brother. I have both of them now. Come find him… or I start breaking him the way I broke your brother all those years ago.”The line went dead.Kai stared at the phone in Damien’s hand.His voice came out small. “He has him. He has Kaicen.”Damien was already moving. “We’re calling the police. We’re calling security. We’re going to Kaicen’s apartment right now.”Kai shook his head. “No. We don’t wait. We go now. We find him. We get him back. We do it together.”Damien looked at him. His face was calm, but his eyes were hard. “Together. Okay. Grab your keys. I’ll drive.”The
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Chapter: Chapter 127The penthouse was too quiet.Too still.The kind of quiet that feels like the walls are listening.Damien stood in the middle of the living room, arms crossed, staring at the floor like he could find answers in the shadows. The photo from Victor was still burning in his mind. The handshake. The caption. The man’s voice on the phone saying he had Kaicen.Kai was in the bedroom, door closed. He hadn’t come out in twenty minutes.Damien rubbed his face. His hands were shaking.He had almost lost everything today. The company. His position. Kai. His brother. The man he loved. One vote. One offer. One lie from the board and everything he had built was gone.He had walked out. He had chosen them.And now it felt like the world was coming for them anyway.The door to the bedroom opened.Kai stepped out. His face was pale. His eyes were red.He looked at Damien and his voice came out flat.“We need to separate.”Damien felt the words like a punch in the stomach.“What?”Kai’s voice cracked. “
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Chapter: Victor's First Move**Chapter 126: Victor’s First Move**The penthouse felt too big after the board meeting.Damien walked through the empty rooms like a man who had just lost his own grave. The silence was deafening. The city lights outside the windows still looked the same, but everything inside felt wrong.Kai sat on the couch, staring at the floor.They had gone home after the board vote. Quietly. Together. Damien had driven without saying a word. Kai had stared out the window the whole way, hands shaking in his lap.Now it was past midnight.No one had spoken about the changes. No one had mentioned the investors who had left. No one had mentioned the new apartment keys Kaicen had dropped off earlier that evening.The secret was still there, heavy and suffocating.Damien sat down on the couch beside Kai. He didn’t touch him. He just sat close enough that their legs brushed.“It’s real,” he said quietly. “They removed me. They offered the company to Victor. They did it while we were fighting for the r
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Chapter: The Board's Betrayal The boardroom smelled like fresh coffee and expensive cologne.Damien walked in first, Kai right beside him. Their hands brushed every few steps. No one spoke. No one needed to. The air already felt thick with tension.The ten members of the board sat around the long table. Some faces were familiar. Others looked cold. Mr. Harlan sat at the head, wearing his usual smug expression. The rest shifted uncomfortably when they saw Kai and Damien enter together.Damien took his seat without hesitation. He didn’t smile. He didn’t greet anyone. He just sat down and looked around the table like he owned it. Because he did.Kai sat beside him. He kept his hand lightly on the table, not touching Damien, but close enough that their fingers almost brushed.The meeting started slow. Small talk. Apologies for the delay. Then Mr. Harlan cleared his throat.
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Chapter: The Hidden Camera Damien woke up to the sound of his phone vibrating on the nightstand.3:12 a.m.He sat up fast, heart already racing. Kai was asleep beside him, breathing slow and even. Damien picked up the phone and saw the message from an unknown number.His stomach dropped.He read it twice.“I see you, Kai. I see your brother. I see everything. Marcus was right. They’re weak. They always were. Come find him… or I start breaking him the way I broke your brother all those years ago.”The message came with a photo.Damien’s blood went cold.The photo showed Kaicen. Standing on a rooftop. A man with a gun pressed to the back of his head. The caption read: “Your brother. Or mine. Your choice.”Damien woke Kai immediately. He didn’t hesitate. He didn&rs
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Chapter: Chapter 123The studio lights felt too bright that morning. Kai stood in front of the lens, trying to smile, but every flash reminded him of the warehouse. The way the gun had kicked. The way the blood had looked on Marcus’s shirt. He kept blinking, forcing the smile to stay steady.Then she walked in.Lila Moreau.She was stunning in the most casual way tight jeans, a cropped white shirt, hair in loose waves. The photographer had told Kai she was the new face for the campaign. Kai had seen the photos online. She was everywhere. And now she was standing ten feet away, looking straight at him with a smile that felt like it was aimed at Damien.“Hi,” she said, voice smooth. “You’re Kai, right? The one who looks just like the old campaign shots. I’m Lila. I’m so excited to be working with you.”Kai forced a smile. “Yeah. I&rsqu
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CLAIMED IN THE DARK
In the ruthless underworld where empires are built on blood and betrayal, Cove Voss is king. Cold. Calculating. Untouchable.
When his enemy’s younger brother is delivered to him bound, blindfolded, and broken Cove expects to use Elliot Reyes as leverage. What he doesn’t expect is the fierce, beautiful hacker who trembles at the mere idea of darkness… yet ignites something far more dangerous in him the moment the blindfold comes off.
Trapped in Cove’s luxurious penthouse prison, Eli fights the possessive crime lord with every sarcastic word and defiant glare. But in the suffocating dark, where fear turns into forbidden heat and every touch is both punishment and promise, resistance begins to crack.
Cove doesn’t just want revenge.
He wants everything.
Eli’s body.
His surrender.
His soul.
As deadly secrets surface and Eli’s own brother plots his death, the lines between captor and captive, hatred and obsession, blur into something far more lethal. In a world where trust gets you killed, Cove Voss has claimed what’s his and he will burn the city to the ground before he lets Eli go.
Baca
Chapter: Chapter 101Eli woke up slowly, his body heavy and confused. He was on the big couch in the living room of the penthouse, the soft cushions pressing into his back. Cove’s arm was wrapped tightly around his shoulders, pulling him close. The emergency lights were on low, casting a warm orange glow across the marble floor and the tall windows. The city lights of the night outside the glass walls looked far away, like they belonged to someone else’s world. Eli’s breathing was still fast and shallow, the panic attack still clinging to him like cold sweat on his skin.His legs felt weak when he tried to sit up. He pushed himself a little too hard and they buckled under him. Eli let out a small groan and dropped back onto the couch. “I… I can’t,” he whispered, his voice hoarse and rough. “My legs won’t work.”Cove didn’t let go. He simply shifted, sliding an arm under Eli’s knees and lifting him easily. Eli’s head rested against Cove’s shoulder as he was carried the short distance to the couch. Cove sat
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Chapter: Chapter 100Eli forced himself through the panic, his body shaking in the pitch black of the server room. The darkness pressed against him like a living thing, the kind that had haunted him since he was nine. The closet. The fire. The endless night that had made him scream until his voice gave out. His heart slammed against his ribs so hard he could feel it in his throat. His hands trembled as he gripped the pistol he had taken from the limo earlier. The platinum collar around his neck felt like a chain, heavy and cold. The silver ring on his finger pressed against his knuckle, a reminder of the life he had chosen with Cove.He forced his eyes to open. The emergency lights outside the server room door cast a faint red glow through the small window, but that was not enough. He needed more. He needed to see. His fingers moved on the laptop, the glow from the server monitors spilling into the room. He aimed the pistol carefully, the red dot from the laser sight dancing on the wall where the first sh
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Chapter: Chapter 99Cove’s boots pounded the pavement as he sprinted back toward the armored vehicle. The night air cut through his tactical jacket, but he barely felt it. His mind was a storm of orders and calculations. Eli was inside the penthouse, alone in the server room. Lena was vulnerable. Matteo had already proved he did not play fair. One second too late and everything could collapse.“Move!” Cove shouted into his radio, his voice sharp and commanding. “Lena stays with the men. Secure the lobby. I am sprinting back to the vehicle. Do not wait for me.”One of the men, a tall veteran named Ruiz, answered immediately. “Copy, boss. We got her. Lena is safe in the lobby with two guards. We are escorting her to the penthouse now.”Cove did not slow down. He reached the armored vehicle in under thirty seconds, the engine already running. The driver, a quiet man named Morales, looked
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Chapter: Chapter 98Eli’s voice exploded through the earpiece like a gunshot of its own.“Eli” did not shout his name. He screamed a warning. “Cove! Do not shoot! He is rigged with a heart monitor! If you kill him the bombs go off right now!”Cove’s gun was already aimed at Matteo’s head. The warehouse lights were low, just enough to see the faces of the men holding Matteo. Lena stood behind Cove, still rubbing her wrists, her face pale but steady. The team waited in tense silence, weapons ready. Matteo stood in the center of the room, the detonator switch still in his hand. His smile was thin and dangerous.Cove’s finger tightened on the trigger. “Stand down, Matteo. Lena is free. The ports stay ours. Drop the switch.”Matteo laughed, the sound sharp and ugly. “No. You think you can just walk in and take everything? I killed my father. I wi
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Chapter: Chapter 97Matteo Caruso stood in the center of the old meatpacking hall, the detonator switch held loosely in his right hand. The air inside the warehouse was thick with dust and the faint metallic tang of old blood. Old conveyor belts lay silent like giant snakes across the cracked concrete floor. High above, the hanging meat hooks swayed gently in the draft from the broken roof. The smell of rust and grease filled the space, mixing with the cold night air that seeped in through shattered windows. Red laser grids crisscrossed the floor at different heights, invisible but deadly. One wrong move and the entire building would blow.Lena sat tied to a metal chair in the middle of the room, her wrists bound tight behind her back. Bruises colored her face, but her eyes stayed sharp and defiant. She looked at Cove with quiet relief mixed with worry. “Cove,” she said softly, her voice steady despite the situation. “You came. But this is not the ti
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Chapter: Chapter 96Cove froze mid-step, one foot suspended in the air as the drone feed on Eli’s screen went completely black.The warehouse around him felt alive with danger. Old meat hooks swayed gently from the high ceiling, creaking in the cold draft. The concrete floor was stained dark with years of blood and oil. Invisible lasers crisscrossed the space at ankle, knee, and chest height. One wrong move and the motion sensors would trigger the explosives rigged throughout the entire building. The air smelled of rust, dust, and faint gun oil from the team’s weapons. Cove’s heart beat steady but hard in his chest. His injured shoulder burned under the tactical vest, but he kept his breathing even.Eli’s voice came through the earpiece, urgent but controlled. “Cove, the drone jammed. I lost the visual. Do not move. I am switching to audio. I can hear the frequency hum of the proximity sensors. I will guide you by sou
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