All Chapters of THE REJECTED SON-IN-LAW IS A SECRET BILLIONAIRE : Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
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CHAPTER 11: Standing at the Gate
The basement seemed to shrink around them.No one spoke. The guard remained by the doorway with one hand pressed against his earpiece, his face drained of color as though he wished he'd misheard the report. Even the assassin had stopped laughing.Augustus broke the silence."Show me."The guard fumbled for the tablet at his belt and activated the estate's security feed. Every eye in the room shifted toward the glowing screen.For a moment, the image danced with static before settling into focus. Rain hammered the iron gates outside the Cole Estate, blurring the world beyond into shifting sheets of gray. Lightning flashed over the cliffs overlooking the sea.A lone figure stood beyond the gates.No convoy.No armed escort.No attempt to hide.Just a woman in a crimson coat that reached almost to her knees. One hand rested inside her pocket while the other held a black umbrella against the rain. She wasn't pacing or testing the fence. She wasn't demanding entry.She simply waited.Somet
CHAPTER 12: Beneath the House (Part 1)
Darkness swallowed the basement so completely that, for a heartbeat, nobody breathed.The emergency lights failed to come on. Somewhere down the corridor, metal scraped against concrete, followed by the sharp clatter of boots. Radios erupted with overlapping voices before dissolving into bursts of static."Backup lights!" Augustus barked.No answer.The old man slammed the tip of his cane against the floor. "Report!"Only silence answered him.Ethan had already moved. He drew a compact flashlight from inside his jacket and swept a narrow beam across the room. The pale light caught anxious faces, rifles raised in every direction, and the assassin still strapped to the steel chair.He was smiling."You've already lost," the man whispered.Ethan walked straight to him."You seem awfully confident."The prisoner coughed, blood running down his chin. "Because this wasn't the attack.""What was it?""A key."Before Ethan could press him further, every emergency light in the corridor flicker