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CHAPTER 180
RYANI watched the hacker closely as he worked, fingers flying across the keyboard, eyes glued to multiple screens. The soft hum of machines filled the room, but nothing could drown out the tension pulsing through me. Every move he made felt like walking on the edge of a knife—one wrong input, one miscalculation, and everything we were risking could collapse.Signals, firewalls, proxy chains, encrypted nodes—he navigated through them like water, but the Dynasty’s systems weren’t ordinary. I could feel the weight of the obstacle pressing down on us. This wasn’t just a corporate network. This was a global fortress backed by power beyond what most people could imagine.Suddenly, alerts flared on the screen. Government-backed intrusion detection. Emergency protocols activating in real-time. Funds didn’t vanish yet, but the movement slowed, frozen in place. Shadow-locks. Reroutes. Every signal the hacker sent was being scrutinized, diverted, delayed.“They’re reacting,” I muttered to mysel
CHAPTER 179
RYAN.The room was quiet.Not the kind of quiet that brought peace, but the kind that pressed in on the ears, reminding me how alone leadership really was. No voices. No footsteps. Just the faint hum of electricity and the soft glow of screens reflecting off the walls.I sat at the desk, surrounded by files—Chinese Dynasty records, Cassian archives, financial reports stacked and layered like the weight they carried. Page after page. Numbers. Names. Accounts. Routes.I didn’t even know what I was looking for.I just knew I had to keep looking.When you lead, you don’t get the luxury of rest. You search even when you don’t know what you’re searching for. You keep digging because stopping feels like surrender.I leaned back in the chair, rubbing my eyes. My body was here, but my mind kept drifting—to Seraphine, to the children, to the families sleeping under borrowed roofs, relying on decisions I wasn’t even sure were right anymore.I didn’t want this life.I wanted freedom.Freedom from
CHAPTER 178
SERAPHINE.I knew something was wrong the moment the guards shifted.The tunnel was never quiet, not truly. There was always the low hum of generators, the muffled breathing of too many people packed into one hidden space, the soft murmurs of fear no one wanted to admit out loudBut this was different. This was tension sharp, sudden, aliveElizabeth and Dante appeared at the entrance.They looked different. Dirt-streaked. Hollow-eyed. Like people who had run until their lungs burned and still hadn’t escaped what was chasing them.They spoke quickly. They said they tried to burn the Chinese Dynasty.They missed. They said the Dynasty hunted them immediatelyThat they barely escaped. That coming back here was their only option.I watched Ryan as they spoke.His face didn’t change at first.No shock. No relief. Just something closing behind his eyes.“No,” he said when they finished. One word. Final.Elizabeth stepped forward. “Ryan, listen—”“No,” he repeated, louder. “You don’
CHAPTER 177
DANTE.The building was dead.That was the first thing I noticed the silence wasn’t just quiet, it was hollow, like the place itself had been stripped of purpose and left to rot.A big abandoned structure, concrete bones exposed, windows broken long ago.The kind of place no one came to unless they were hiding.I sat on the floor with my back against a pillar, head lowered, elbows on my knees. My thoughts wouldn’t slow down.Maybe we shouldn’t have left.The idea kept loopingLeaving Ryan. Leaving the others is dangerous for us.Running off like fugitives with no plan except fearThis wasn’t working The farther we got from the tunnel, the worse it felt. Like every step away sealed a mistake I couldn’t undoElizabeth didn’t seem to feel it.She was careless again just like before. Talking too loud, moving like the world wasn’t hunting her.Like consequences were optional.I watched her earlier and felt something twist in my chest.She needs to learnThen I corrected myself immediat
CHAPTER 176
RYANThe paper felt heavier than it should have.One of Pa Jake’s guards handed it to me without a word.There was no envelope. No seal Just a folded sheet, creased once, deliberate Julian’s style. I didn’t open it immediately. I already knew whatever was written there wasn’t meant to inform me It was meant to unsettle me.When I unfolded it, the message was short. Cold and personal.No threats spelled out.No explanations.It was Just confirmation.The Dynasty brothers are in America.Jacksonville CityMy chest tightened.How is that even possible? I thought. These weren’t men who moved casually.Every step they took was calculated, public when it needed to be, invisible when it didn’t. Them coming here meant one thing: this was no longer a distant power pressing from afar They had crossed the ocean to end this themselvesFear hit hard not the kind that paralyzes but the kind that sharpens everything too much This wasn’t just intimidation. This was a declarationThey meant bus
CHAPTER 175
RYAN.Five days underground. Every hour, every step, every shadow had begun to weigh on me but I didn’t let it show. I kept moving, kept thinking, kept watching The family was together, and that made all the difference.Jasmine slept near me her breathing steady. Seraphine stayed close, alert, scanning every corner. Seeing them safe gave me a small comfort in this endless dark.But Mary… I couldn’t stop thinking about herShe wasn’t here. The hospital was a temporary refuge, but I didn’t trust it. Not completelyThe Dynasty could find anyone, anywhereThat thought gnawed at me constantly Every time I closed my eyes, I imagined their agents slipping past security, their footsteps silent, their hands taking what I loved. I had to find her I had to be sure.The tunnel stretched ahead, twisting and turning like a living labyrinth beneath the old Cassian estate. Pa Jake, old but sharp, suggested we explore more of it. “There’s more than one way down here,” he said. “Better know
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