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249: They're here. Just as expected.
Elsa stood motionless beside the sofa, barely aware of the activity around her.Her tears continued to fall as she remembered the moment Felix left the mansion.It happened so quickly. One moment, they were kissing. The next, he hurried out of the house with a look on his face that she had never seen before, barely acknowledging her.She had assumed something happened at work. She wanted to follow him, but he was already heading toward the door before she could ask what was wrong.She watched him leave, expecting him to return in a few hours.She never imagined that, within minutes, his entire world would collapse.Who could have known that the last time she saw him free would be the last time she saw him at all?Her throat tightened painfully.“Felix...” she began, wiping her cheeks with trembling fingers. “The last thing I remember is him rushing out of the mansion. He looked terrified. I called his name, but he didn’t stop.”Jake frowned.“Terrified?”She nodded. “I should have fol
248: Household in chaos
—BREAKING NEWS: KIMBER KIM FOUND DEAD AT ABANDONED MERIDIAN TOWER.Elsa’s phone slipped from her hand and landed on the carpet.“WHAT?!!!”—The Kim mansion had never been in such disarray.Only a short while earlier, the household had been going about its usual routine. The staff had prepared for the evening, the security team continued monitoring the grounds, and Elsa had been waiting for Felix to return from his study.It had been an ordinary evening.Now the living room was filled with raised voices, hurried footsteps, and the relentless sound of a television broadcasting breaking news.Elsa stood frozen in front of the screen, her eyes locked on the familiar face beneath the news banner.She had been checking a message on her phone when the anchor first mentioned Kimber Kim’s name. At first she paid it no mind. Kimber Kim was a powerful man. His name appeared in the news often, usually tied to Kim’s Empire, some major business deal, or another public appearance. Hearing it was n
247: The witness
---Approximately twenty minutes earlier, a man named Daniel Brooks had been walking past Meridian Tower when he heard raised voices coming from above.He initially ignored them. The abandoned building was known for attracting troublemakers, and he had no desire to get involved in someone else’s argument.But then a particularly loud voice carried down from the rooftop.“You should have left things alone!”Daniel stopped in his tracks.The words were followed by another voice that was lower and angrier, but the wind made it difficult to distinguish what was being said.He glanced toward the building. The whole thing made him feel uneasy so he considered leaving.Whatever was happening up there had nothing to do with him, and he had no intention of becoming involved in a fight. Still, curiosity kept him rooted to the spot.He moved closer to the building and looked up, trying to see through the rooftop railing. From where he stood, he could make out two figures. One man stood near the
246: Jericho Vasley, you will regret this
Minutes later, the wail of approaching sirens shattered the silence.Felix barely heard them.He remained on his knees, cradling Kimber’s body against his chest, his fingers wrapped tightly around his wrist. He had cried until he had nothing left.Now, there were no more tears. No more desperate sobs. All that was left in him was just emptiness, leaving him staring blankly into the distance.The sirens grew louder, followed by the screech of tires from somewhere below. Car doors slammed. Heavy footsteps thundered through the abandoned building, accompanied by urgent voices echoing up the stairwell.“Police! The rooftop is this way!”“Secure the exits! Nobody leaves the building!”Felix didn’t move.Even when the rooftop door burst open and a group of uniformed officers rushed outside, he remained hunched over Kimber, his clothes drenched in his blood.Their movements slowed when they caught sight of the scene before them.“Jesus Christ,” one officer muttered.Another immediately reac
245: Two minutes too late
Meridian Tower had stood abandoned for years.It rose from a neglected corner of the city, far from the commercial district. Few people ever came this way, and fewer still had reason to climb to its roof.Felix arrived just as the final two minutes expired.The wind hit him the moment he stepped onto the rooftop, pulling at his clothes. At first, all he saw was the desolate expanse, the distant skyline, and the grey sky stretching over the city.Then his gaze found the figure near the far edge.Felix stopped breathing.His mind refused to accept what his eyes were showing him. His feet felt rooted to the concrete; the world tilted.“No.”The word escaped before he could stop it.He took a step. Then another.“No, no, no…”His pace quickened. By the time he reached the figure he was almost running. He dropped to his knees beside the fallen man.It was Kimber Kim.His father.The man who had found him when he had nothing and given him everything.Kimber lay motionless on the rooftop, a
244: Countdown: Rescue or a body?
For one suspended second, Felix forgot how to breathe.The warmth Elsa’s kiss had left on his lips disappeared, replaced by a cold that seeped straight into his bones. He stared at the screen, reading the message once, twice, a third time, as if his mind refused to accept the words.“No…”The sound escaped him in a strangled whisper.Then his expression changed."No. No, no—NO!"A murderous growl tore from his throat and echoed through the hallway.So this was what Jericho meant when he threatened to take someone very dear to him.It wasn’t Elsa.It was Kimber.HIS FATHER!The man he had spent twenty years believing he would never know. The man who had returned to his life when he least expected it, turning everything Felix thought he knew about himself upside down.And now Jericho was threatening to kill him.His vision flooded red. The phone trembled so hard that the screen almost cracked under his grip. Ten minutes.He checked the time stamp. The message was sent two minutes ago.
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