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Chapter 277. Feel Things.
The line went dead with a beep.The thirty minutes he waited for her passed like hours and seconds at the same time. It was the kind of temporal distortion that came from sitting alone in a dark corner with nothing but your own thoughts and the distant hum of a city that did not care whether you lived or died. Saul sat in the driver's seat with his hands in his lap and his eyes fixed on the empty street ahead. His mind spun through the same loop of confusion and fear and cloying lovesickness.The phone was still in his hand, the screen was still dark, and the silence was still pressing in on him from all sides.He thought about calling Kim again.He thought about driving away and pretending that none of this had ever happened. He could go back to the penthouse and crawl into bed and wake up tomorrow as if the last hour had been nothing but a fever dream.But he did none of those things.Instead, he sat there and waited for the woman who was supposed to be his business partner to c
Chapter 276. Shame.
Saul's throat was tight. Each recrimination seemed to hit harder and harder on his shoulders until they shrunk down into his seat.He felt….. shame. An emotion he hasn't felt for some time." Veronica….”His mouth opened and closed, honestly not knowing what to say to the woman and she knew it judging by the derisive snort she let out.".... And after all of that, you call me and tell me you wanted to hear my voice, and I'm supposed to what? Be flattered? Be grateful? Be happy that the great Saul Kinai deigned to think about me for five seconds?" She sneered. It was the most mocking sound he had heard from anyone in his lip except Magnus maybe. "You are an asshole. You are an absolute piece of shit."Her voice broke on the last word. She was quiet for a moment, and he could hear her breathing on the other end of the line, struggling to pull herself together."I can't do this. I can't do this hot and cold bullshit with you anymore. One minute you're so distant, and the next you're cal
Chapter 275. Aspect.
Even as a part of him screamed, 'No. No, I don't. I don't need her. I need Kim. I need my wife. I don't need her-' His thumb moved across the screen. It found Veronica's name in his contacts, '-Don't do this. Don't you dare do this-' And pressed the call button before his mind could argue against it. 'Goddammit-'The phone rang once. Then twice. Then three times. Each ring felt like an eternity. He sat there with his heart pounding, his breath shallow, and his hand shaking. He waited.It took a while.But she answered."Hello?"And the moment he heard her voice, everything just went calm.****Saul had to take a few seconds to just breathe into the speaker, his eyes closed and his heart hammering against his ribs, basking in the feel of her voice washing over him like a tidal wave. He could hear the faint sound of movement on the other end of the line and the distant hum of something that might have been a television and the soft rhythm of her breathing miles away.He let all of it
Chapter 274. Battling Conscience.
".....I love her. I do. I love her."Saul sobbed out a breath and his lungs heaved with a violence that made his ribs ache and his throat burn. The air in the car had grown thick and heavy. His skin was slick with sweat despite the cool air that blew from the air conditioning, and his heart pounded so hard he could feel it in his teeth. His hand trembled on the phone. As he stared down at the screen, his vision blurred at the edges, and the world narrowed down to the small, rectangle glow in front of him. Her name was displayed like a lifeline thrown into dark water.‘Kim.Kim.Kim’ His mind chanted frantically.All he had to do was press it, damn it. Press it, and he would hear his wife's voice. Everything would be okay. She would answer, and she would say his name in that way she had. The panic would recede. He would remember who he was, what he stood for, and why he had been fighting so hard to get back to her.His thumb hovered over the call button. He was about to push down o
Chapter 273. Nervous Breakdown.
The drive back to the penthouse was largely uneventful.Saul wasn't really paying attention to the roads, his mind still stuck on Magnus and the weird meeting with detective Blackfox.The detective's words were still rattling around in his head. Coupled with the disappointment of the failed search was still sitting heavy in his chest, he felt tired.All he wanted to do was get back to kim and take a long nap in his bed.But fate, as it is won't to remind him always, had other plans.He was just exiting the highway when the migraine hit."Ugh-" The sound tore out of him before he could stop it, a raw guttural noise that filled the car and was swallowed immediately by the darkness. It came out of nowhere with a violence that stole his breath and made his vision swim.A sudden spike of pain that drove through the back of his skull and exploded behind his eyes like a grenade going off in the confined space of his head. "Shit-fuck!" He cursed as his hands jerked on the steering wheel an
Chapter 272. No Substance.
They danced around each other for a while after that, neither of them asking the questions they really wanted to ask and neither of them revealing the information they really wanted to hide. The entire interaction went as follows:Blackfox asked about Saul's business and Saul gave vague answers that revealed nothing. In return, Saul asked about the investigation and the man gave noncommittal responses that told him nothing. They circled each other like predators in a cage, each one testing the other's boundaries and looking for weaknesses that could be exploited."The thing is," the detective said after a long pause with his eyes narrowing slightly, "I've been looking into your history. Not just with Magnus. Your whole background. And there are some gaps that I find very interesting. Periods of time where you seem to have simply disappeared from the record."Saul kept his expression neutral even as his mind raced through the implications of what the detective was saying. "I've trav
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