All Chapters of Her Dark Obsession: Chapter 81 - Chapter 90

Marcus left the casino with his arm in a sling, the pain medication making everything slightly hazy but manageable. Anna's instructions echoed in his mind. Watch Kane. Track his movements. Document everything.It was a chance to redeem himself. To prove his loyalty after the disaster with James and the burner phone.Marcus got into his car and started driving toward his apartment across town. The streets were mostly empty at this hour, just past one in the morning. A few cars here and there, some late-night delivery trucks, nothing unusual.He turned onto his street, a quiet residential area with older apartment buildings lining both sides. Almost home. Almost able to collapse into bed and let his arm rest properly.Then headlights appeared in his rearview mirror. Coming fast. Too fast.Marcus tensed, his good hand instinctively moving toward the compartment where he kept a backup weapon. But before he could reach it, the car behind him swerved and pulled up alongside, cutting him off

Marcus was shaking his head as much as his battered body would allow. "I am telling you the truth. I did not give you away to Anna. I had no reason to. You already got what you wanted from me at the gala.""Then how did she know where to find my car? How did she know I was surveilling Kane?" James's voice was getting colder, more dangerous. "The timing is too precise to be coincidence. She photographed my car the exact day I was watching Kane's casino.""I do not know! Maybe she has people watching Kane too. Maybe your car was just there at the same time as hers and she noticed it." Marcus was desperate now, trying to find any explanation that would satisfy James. "But I did not tell her. I swear I did not."James studied him for a long moment. Then he said, "I heard something interesting tonight. I heard that Anna came after you. That she confronted you about approaching Bianca. That she shot you in the arm as punishment."Marcus felt his stomach drop. How did James know about that?

James stood outside the abandoned building, watching his men scatter in different directions as they chased after Marcus. He could hear gunshots in the distance, shouts, the sound of footsteps echoing through the industrial area.Marcus had escaped. Actually escaped from a chair, killed four of James's men, and fled into the night.James felt fury rising in his chest. This was not supposed to happen. Marcus was supposed to be dead by now, his body disposed of, the problem eliminated.Instead, Marcus was out there somewhere, wounded but alive, and probably heading straight to Anna to warn her about James's operation."Find him!" James shouted to the remaining men standing nearby. "I want every street covered. Every alley searched. He is injured and on foot. He cannot have gotten far."The men nodded and took off running in different directions. James pulled out his phone and started making calls.First, he called every available person on his payroll. Former criminals who worked as inf

Anna finished coordinating the extraction operation and looked up to see Bianca still standing on the stairs, watching her with wide eyes."I thought I told you to go to your room.""I was going. But I heard you on the phone." Bianca descended a few steps. "You are sending armed men to rescue Marcus. You told them to kill anyone who gets in their way. Even police.""Yes. That is exactly what I am doing." Anna grabbed her jacket from the back of a chair and shrugged it on. "Marcus is one of mine. I do not abandon my people when they are in danger.""Even though you shot him earlier tonight?""Even though. He betrayed me, yes. But that does not mean I let James torture and murder him." Anna checked the gun concealed under her jacket, making sure it was loaded. "Now go upstairs. Lock yourself in. I need to leave.""Leave? Where are you going?" Bianca came down the rest of the stairs. "Your team is handling the extraction. Why do you need to go anywhere?""Because I have other matters to

Bianca stared at the surveillance report, trying to make sense of the timeline. James and Anna had met three years ago. Their last documented meeting was two and a half years ago.And Bianca had met James...She pulled out her phone and scrolled back through old photos, looking for evidence of when their relationship started. There. A selfie James had taken of them at that coffee shop. The date stamp showed it was two years and four months ago.One day after James's last documented meeting with Anna.One single day.Bianca felt her stomach drop. That could not be coincidence. James had met with Anna, had some kind of argument or falling out based on the investigator's notes, and then the very next day he had "randomly" run into Bianca at a coffee shop.She scrolled through more photos, looking at the timeline of their relationship. That first meeting at the coffee shop. Then coffee again three days later. Then dinner a week after that. They had not started dating officially until two