Chapter 143: The CrestMiranda arrived at the clinic not long after Cassian’s call. The moment she stepped through the entrance, her brows drew together. Several men were scattered across the reception area, some unconscious, others barely moving as they groaned from the injuries Cassian had left them with. Jude and the rest of the clinic staff had already been released from where they were being held, but the atmosphere still carried the tension of what had just happened.Miranda looked around once before her eyes finally landed on Cassian, who was standing near the reception desk as though none of this had anything to do with him.“This is the trash you called me to handle?”Cassian nodded without the slightest shame. “Exactly.”Miranda stared at him for a few seconds before letting out a tired sigh. She had left her company expecting something important, perhaps information connected to the investigation he had asked her to carry out. Instead, she arrived to find Cassian standing o

Chapter 145: The Greater Trap It seemed whoever had set this trap had unknowingly stepped into a much bigger one. Zora looked at the ruined warehouse again, then at Damien standing beside her. The thought settled her more than anything else had since she arrived. If someone had deliberately burned the place down just to cut off her supply, they had probably believed they were only hurting her company. Instead, they had also dragged Damien Harthwone into it. That changed the weight of the situation. She did not need to panic anymore. At least not yet. Whoever was behind the fire had already created a second problem for themselves, and Zora had no intention of warning them about it. For now, she was more interested in seeing what they would do next. Her gaze returned to Damien. “What are you going to do about this?” Damien let out a quiet sigh and looked over the damaged building. For a moment, he said nothing. Workers were still moving through the area, checking what could be sa

Chapter 147: The Second AmbushZora’s heart hammered against her chest as Damien kept her low and moving, one hand firm around her arm while his bodyguards closed in from different sides. Within seconds, they had formed a tight shield around her and her assistant, blocking every obvious angle from which another shot could come. Damien barely looked at them. His attention was already elsewhere, eyes moving across windows, rooftops and elevated structures with the sharp focus of someone who had spent far too much of his life surviving situations exactly like this.“Stay behind them,” he told Zora without looking back.She frowned at him, still trying to control her breathing. “You’re really going after the shooter?”“Yep.”His answer was simple, and somehow that made it worse.Damien moved his gaze from one building to another, reconstructing the first shot in his head. The bullet’s direction, the angle at which it struck, the split second of light he had caught before pulling Zora down

Chapter 149: You Did WellCassian arrived at the company not long after Zora called.There was no particular urgency in the way he walked through the building. His steps remained calm, his expression relaxed, and anyone who did not know better would have thought he was simply stopping by to see his wife during an ordinary workday. Under normal circumstances, that kind of composure might have irritated Zora. After everything that had happened, she should have been demanding to know why he looked so unbothered.Instead, the moment she saw him enter her office, something inside her finally loosened.She had held herself together through the first gunshot, the sight of Damien chasing a sniper across rooftops, and the second group of attackers closing in around her, and even through the drive back to the company. She had answered questions, kept her voice steady and refused to let anyone see how badly the whole thing had shaken her.But now Cassian was standing there.Zora crossed the ro

Chapter 151: The PrisonerBefore leaving, Cassian returned to the room one more time.Zora was still asleep exactly where he had left her, her breathing slow and even now that the tension from earlier had finally faded. He stood by the bed for a moment, watching her quietly. Even in sleep, there was a slight tiredness around her face that had not been there that morning, and it reminded him again just how close the first bullet had come.Cassian said nothing.He simply reached down, pulled the blanket a little higher over her and adjusted it around her shoulder before straightening. His gaze remained on her for another few seconds, calm on the surface, though the thoughts behind it were anything but.Someone had tried to kill her twice in the space of minutes.The first attempt had been clean and professional. A sniper positioned far enough away to finish the job without ever getting close. Then, when Damien moved to eliminate that threat, another group had been waiting to close in.T