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Miley had not even caught her breath from the weight of her own words when her phone buzzed on the coffee table.She blinked, startled, and leaned forward to grab it. “It is my secretary,” she muttered, then swiped to answer. “Yes?”Her secretary’s voice was brisk, cautious. “Ma’am, there is a gentleman on the other line… he insists on speaking with you urgently.”“Right now?” she asked, brows tightening.“Yes, ma’am. He says it’s Mr. Callo.”Miley froze. “The Mr. Callo? As in Amado’s boss?”“Yes. Shall I connect the call?”Miley cast a quick glance at Julius, whose expression remained unreadable, then nodded to herself. “Fine. Put him through.”The line went silent for a heartbeat, and then came the gravelly voice of an older man, trembling with restrained panic.“Ms. Hart,” he began, “please allow me to express my sincerest, deepest apologies. I cannot begin to tell you the shame I carry over what has happened. I…I had no idea what that foolish man was doing in my name.”Miley sat u
Marked urgent
Julius cradled Miley in his arms as his team surged through the restaurant doors. His steps were purposeful, furious, unwavering. He did not flinch even when she stirred faintly, her head slipping sideways against his shoulder, lips parting with a breath that came slow and unsteady.“She is conscious, but barely,” one of the medics reported as they rushed forward. “We need a toxicity panel. Possible sedative.”Julius nodded once, eyes hard as steel. “She is not leaving my sight.”“Sir, we will stabilize her on the way,” the paramedic added as he fastened a monitor to her wrist. “Her vitals are strong, but her blood pressure’s dipping. She will be okay, but it was close.”Behind them, Mr. Amado was being dragged out of the restaurant by two agents. He was zip-tied at the wrists, his lip split and his jaw swollen from Julius’s blow. He spat a muffled curse as flashing cameras from a passerby’s phone caught the scene. Restaurant management tried to plead with Julius’s team ; “This is al
I am here!
The drive back from the mountains was supposed to be uneventful. Julius had only agreed to accompany Duke Morgan for a high-level off-the-record meeting; it was something political, little strategic, and dull. But now he gripped the folder handed to him by one of Duke’s operatives, his jaw clenched tighter with every turn of the page."Quella," he growled.Duke Morgan remained still in the passenger seat beside him, arms folded, expression unreadable. “The money trail doesn’t lie.”The folder was thick. Transaction ledgers, anonymized payments, dummy corporation names. But they all led to the same end point, which is a shell company registered under a now-defunct address in Monaco, tied to several R&D sabotage efforts. Every one of them had one thing in common: they competed with Miley’s innovations.“She was not trying to sell the tech,” Julius muttered. “She was not after money.”“No,” Duke confirmed. “This was never about profit. This was about erasure.”Julius slammed the folder
Second chance
Quella stirred on the edge of the examination cot, one hand pressed dramatically against her temple while the other held her belly. Her lower lip trembled as she sat up with a carefully practiced wobble.“I’m sorry, Julius,” she said, breathless, like she’d just survived a warzone instead of having fainted in the middle of an interrogation room. “I just… everything has been so overwhelming. The explosion, the delegation walking out, and poor Miley’s proposal, what a disaster. I tried my best to convince them to stay. But what could I do?” She looked up at him through thick lashes, her voice breaking at all the right places. “They wouldn’t listen. Not with all that chaos.”Julius stood by the door, arms crossed, his expression unreadable.She leaned forward, letting out a soft whimper. “I mean, I even begged them to reconsider. I told them your wife’s work was brilliant, that she had nothing to do with the… incident. But they were just so paranoid. I wanted to help, I really did. You b
Mole
“Get some rest,” Julius said softly, brushing a lock of hair from Miley’s face. “Let me handle this.”Miley gave a weak nod, her eyes still glassy from the emotional aftershock. Her team was already dispersing, helping escort the rest of the staff and Filipino delegation away from the chaos. The venue had become a cordoned mess of police tape, temporary security blocks, and flashing emergency lights. But Julius’s attention was razor-focused on one thing now, and that was knowing the truth.He turned and strode toward the estate’s private security wing, housed in the adjacent building behind the main venue. It was windowless, gray, and quiet, a stark contrast to the madness outside. Inside, monitors blinked across the walls like a thousand watching eyes. A lean man in a pressed uniform stood beside a tech console.“Open the lobby feed. I want to see who entered in the last hour,” Julius ordered without preamble.“Yes, sir,” the technician said, fingers flying across the keys.The foo
Spinning...
Miley couldn’t move.Her heels were rooted to the concrete, her mind spinning while everything around her began to blur. The shouts, the running footsteps, the growing panic all of it sounded like echoes under water. She had heard the word bomb, but it was not the danger that froze her.It was the pattern.It was the same thing happening all over again. Every time she dared to build something, life found a way to tear it apart. And now, right at the edge of sealing her biggest business deal, when she had finally started smiling again, it was all falling apart.“Miley!” one of her assistants shouted, tugging at her arm. “We have to evacuate!”But she could not even turn her head.Somewhere behind her, security was yelling. Delegates from the Filipino team were backing away, frantic voices growing louder. Even Quella was grabbing one of the assistants and pulling toward the parking area. People streamed toward the side exit, a flood of chaos.And Miley just stood there, staring at the
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