All Chapters of Kidnapping the Assassin: The Mafia Don’s Fatal Mistake: Chapter 51
- Chapter 52
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Bonus Story - The Heir’s Discovery
Chapter 51[Elara]Silence in a house with a thirteen-year-old boy is rarely a sign of peace. It is usually the gestation period of a catastrophe.I woke at 2:00 AM. The Tuscan villa was wrapped in the profound, heavy quiet of the countryside. Beside me, Cassian was deeply asleep, his broad back rising and falling in a steady, comforting rhythm.I didn't wake him. I slipped out from under the Egyptian cotton sheets, my bare feet making absolutely no sound on the cool hardwood floor. I pulled a silk robe over my shoulders and walked down the sweeping hallway toward Leo’s room.The door was cracked open. The bed was empty.A cold, familiar prickle of adrenaline washed over the back of my neck. I didn't panic. The perimeter alarms were silent. Nine’s invisible watch was unbroken. If a threat had breached the grounds, the house would be screaming.This wasn't an intrusion. This was an excursion.I moved through the dark house, letting the dormant instincts of the Viper guide me. I didn't
The Ghost in the Code
Chapter 52**[Elara]**"I didn't use a brute-force algorithm," Leo muttered, shifting his weight under his father’s heavy, expectant stare. "That would have tripped the silent alarms in Matteo’s quarters. I used a mirrored latency spoof."We were still standing in the subterranean vault. The heavy steel door was locked behind us, sealing us inside the syndicate’s most classified room. Cassian had pulled a high-back titanium stool from the corner, sitting down with his arms crossed over his bare chest. He wasn't scolding our son like a typical father catching a teenager sneaking out. He was debriefing him. "A mirrored spoof," Cassian repeated, his tone dangerously neutral. He arched a dark eyebrow. "You bounced a fake IP address off the internal servers to trick the biometric scanner into thinking it was running a routine diagnostic."Leo nodded, a spark of defiant pride briefly cutting through his guilt. "I coded the bypass script on a localized flash drive. When the optic laser sca