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DAMIEN
I saw Rosalie's name on the screen and answered before the second ring.
She didn't say hello. Rosalie had never been a woman who wasted time on preamble when something mattered. "Damien. I know why Kayden is doing this”
I stopped moving entirely
CHAPTER 98DAMIEN POVThe office had that slightly frustrated buzz that came after working on a project without tangible results.The city maps were on the table, surveillance stills arranged in sequence along one wall. Dean had been cross-referencing financial statements for the past two hours with the focused patience of a man who believed the answer was in there somewhere. Caleb hadn’t looked away from his laptop. Marcus was giving surveillance team directives. Cain sat quietly near the window, reviewing building schematics.I had been watching my phone. The calls or messages that came in were confirmation messages of dead ends, confirmed sighting of Kayden’s men from the surveillance teams out there. I clenched my hands. I was expecting a message or a call I had no idea what it was till it ca
Chapter 97 Selina POVAlto didn't take me back to my room. Renata had slipped away when we re entered the facility.I noticed the corridor we moved through wasn't the one I'd come to recognize. We were in another section of the facility, this was emptier and our footsteps echoed loudly as we moved.I kept walking because I didn't have a choice. I knew the change of direction was because someone wanted to have a conversation. It was a also a subtle way of communicating who was in charge.He stood beneath a ceiling light in the middle of a bare corridor. He was standing alone in a stretch of empty concrete like the man who had the entire world at his feet.This was his turf. He decided where we could meet and that was very clear to me.Alto stopped several feet behind me. He glanced at him once, and Alto withdrew until he was present without being part of the conversation.He looked at me for a moment without speaking. I looked back and waited."I've decided you deserve to know why yo
CHAPTER 96SELINA POV 11:04 pm.I sat on my bed, measuring the silences between footsteps in the corridor as I committed the route to memory. North end. Service corridor. Third door on the right. Camera blind spot. Northwest corner. After eleven.I pressed my hand flat against my stomach. "We're going to try again. Just stay with me."I stood up. The corridor was exactly as quiet as I needed it to be.I moved out of the room and closed the door quietly. The overhead ventilation system created a constant low hum that masked small noises, using it as a cover, I moved.I walked rather than ran; someone walking with quiet purpose looked different from someone fleeing, and that difference was key to my survival.The maintenance passage was narrow and the recycled air was slightly stale. The lighting in here was motion-activated. My hearted jumped into my mouth when the panels flickered on as I entered. I kept moving, it made no sense to stop now. I counted the distance and turned north
CHAPTER 95PETRA POVI had three screens running and the fourth showing a transaction map I'd built over eighteen months. Besides one of the screen was Wren Castillo's information in a document folder.I cross-referenced the first company name she'd given me against my own records. The name appeared in two separate shells I'd already identified. It did significant work for someone who officially didn't exist. I added the connection to the map and watched three previously isolated nodes link into a cluster.I wondered who told criminals adding three shell companies made money invisible rather than merely annoying.My assistant, Chen, peep in my door. "It's past midnight.""Yes, work takes no time off." I said.
CHAPTER 94DAMIEN POVMarcus looked at me across the operations table at approximately two in the morning. There was a slight frown on his face as I met his gaze. "Sir, you need to leave this room for a few hours or you're going to start making decisions that cost us." I didn’t respond; the fact that he was right irritated me greatly.I drove back to the estate in silence. The gate opened when the car approached. The lights along the drive were on, the way they were always on when the house expected someone.I stood in the entrance hall for a moment after the door closed behind me. The silence felt louder than it usually was. It was a large house and we were two people who had spent the better part of two years successfully avoiding significant portions of it.
Chapter 93Kayden POVI finished the wine before I responded. Savoring a glass of Pontiac was one of the few pleasures I could let myself enjoy and nothing was going to stop me from that.The man standing across the desk from me had delivered his report with an uneasiness that betrayed his fear. His eyes darted around, uncertain about my reaction to the news he brought."Her primary phone is inactive," he said again. He shifted his weight subtly. "She left the hotel sometime between last night and this morning."I set the glass down. "That will be all."He hesitated. "Should I—""I said that will be all."He le
Chapter 8LINAYou couldn't run without money. This was the simple uncomplicated truth of life, whether I liked it or not.I thought about Lily. She had sent me that photograph last night out of care, out of loyalty, because she was still the same person who had made me her friend, immediately in t
Chapter 7LINA"Damien Whitmore, CEO of Whitmore Industries, was photographed this afternoon carrying our very own socialite Adora Cavendish into the Pemberton Medical Centre following a reported ankle injury at a private event involving the two of them, we are not yet sure of how the injury came
Chapter 6LINAThe drive home felt longer than it should have.I kept my hands at ten and two the whole way, this was the way that my father had taught me to drive when I was 15 and was learning how to drive on the quiet stretch of road outside our old neighborhood.I focused on the motion of stari
Chapter 5LINAI stared at the words written on his tombstone.*Daniel Cruz Torres. He loved without reservation.*"Hi, Dad," I said, and my voice came out small and very timid The way it used to when I was a teenager sitting in exactly this spot, after the accident, after the Whitmore had taken me







