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Chapter 15: The Future

Author: Goldentreasure
last update publish date: 2026-07-03 21:04:26

Liam

The sun sets over the lake, and I watch Zoe sleep. She is curled on the couch, her head on a pillow, her hair spread across the fabric like dark water. Her lips are parted. Her chest rises and falls in a slow, steady rhythm. She looks peaceful – younger than her years, softer than the woman who walked into my office with a lie on her lips and a gun in her heart.

I do not deserve her. I know this. I have known it since the moment I kissed her the first time – for the camera, for Evelyn, for the performance. But the performance became real, and the real became something I could not name. The file is on the table. I have not opened it in days. The names are still there – the generals, the ghosts, the men who have been hiding in the shadows for decades. I should be hunting them. I should be burning them down.

But all I want to do is stay here. "Liam." Zoe's eyes are open, and she is watching me. "You are staring," she says. "I am admiring." She smiles. It is a small smile, tired but real. "What are you thinking about?"I am thinking about the future." "Scared and terrified." She sits up and pats the couch beside her. I sit. She leans her head on my shoulder.

"What does the future look like?" she asks. "I do not know. But I know what I want. "What?" "You." I wrap my arm around her. "A life. A home. Something that is not revenge." She is quiet for a long moment. The lake is still. The stars are beginning to emerge. "I want that too," she says. "But I am afraid."

"Of what?"That I will wake up and find out this was all a dream. I kiss her forehead. "It is not a dream. It is real. We are real." She looks up at me. Her grey eyes are wet. "Promise me," she says. "I promise." The phone rings at midnight. I answer it. Marcus's voice is tight. "There has been a development. Victor Kane is dead."

My blood turns to ice. "How?" "Poison. In his IV. Someone got to him." "Who? "We do not know yet. But the timing is not a coincidence. He was about to name names. The generals did not want him to talk." I look at Zoe. She is sitting up, her eyes wide. "We need to go," I say.

"Where?" "To the office. The file is not safe here." We dress in silence. The drive is fast, the streets empty. The city is a wound of neon and shadow, bleeding light into the dark.

Crestwood Tower looms before us. The elevator is slow. The hallways are empty. The office is dark. I unlocked the safe behind my father's photograph. The file is there. Thick. Heavy. The truth. I picked it up. And the lights go out.

"Liam?" Zoe's voice is sharp. "I am here. Stay close." A sound. A creak. A footstep. The emergency lights flicker on. A man is standing in the doorway. He is tall, broad, wearing a mask that covers his face. A gun is in his hand.

"The file," he says. His voice is distorted. "Give it to me."No." He raises the gun. "Last chance." I step in front of Zoe. "Shoot me. You will never find the file." The man tilts his head. "I do not need to find it. I need to destroy it." He fires. The bullet hits the safe behind me. The ricochet whines past my ear. I grab Zoe and pull her behind the desk. The man advances. Tick-tock. The clock is ticking. And the future is not what I thought.

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