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Chapter 103. The Retelling.
But even with all the struggles blatant on her face, she still managed to smile at him."Saul.. thank you for coming," she said. Her voice was steadier than it had been on the phone, but not by much. It was the voice of someone holding herself together by sheer force of will. "I know you didn't have to. After everything I did, I know you didn't have to."Saul didn't respond to that. He didn't know how. The past was still there between them, a third presence on the bench, but it felt smaller now. Less important. Whatever grudges he was still carrying, they could wait.She settled onto the bench beside him, her hands clasped tightly in her lap. She did not take off her glasses, but he could see the tension in her jaw, the way her fingers kept twisting around each other. She was really going through it. Whatever had happened, whatever was still happening, it was eating her alive from the inside."Okay," Saul said, turning slightly on the bench so he could face her directly. "Tell
Chapter 102. Open Space
The sun was high and unforgiving, the kind of afternoon heat that made the asphalt shimmer and the air taste like warm copper. The amusement park sprawled across several acres of reclaimed industrial land, a riot of color and noise and motion that felt almost surreal after the quiet tension of the past few days. Children screamed with delight as they hurtled down the water slides. Couples drifted past clutching stuffed animals won at ring toss games. The distant clatter of a wooden roller coaster mixed with the tinny music of a carousel that had been playing the same tune since before Saul was born.He sat on one of the long benches near the big pool at the end of the water slide, watching the chaos unfold around him with the detached attention of a man who had too much on his mind to really see any of it. A group of teenagers splashed each other near the shallow end, their laughter echoing off the concrete and a father hoisted his daughter onto his shoulders so she could see ove
Chapter 101. Believe.
Saul took a breath. He was thinking now, his mind working through the situation the way it had learned to work over the past few weeks.He had learnt to assess threats, weigh options, and calculate next moves. But his thoughts were inconclusive in this case, scattered by the weight of what she had just told him. Three people were missing. A targeted kidnapping attempt. A pattern that stretched back further than he had realized."Okay," he said, and his voice was calmer than he felt."Okay, look. Stay where you are. Don't go anywhere. Don't tell anyone where you're staying. If someone is targeting your family, you need to be careful until we figure out who it is and what they want. I'll reach out to you later. We need to meet in person, somewhere safe, and then I'll see what I can do."He paused. The words that came next surprised him. They came from somewhere deep, somewhere that had nothing to do with strategy or calculation. "I'm so sorry, Dannie."The nickname slipped out befo
Chapter 100. Ransom
A few minutes passed. Maybe more. Time felt strange, stretched thin by the weight of whatever was happening on the other end of the phone. Eventually, Daniella found her composure. It came back slowly, in fragments, a deep breath here, a swallowed sob there. The crying didn't stop entirely. It just lowered in volume, retreating from a flood to a trickle. When she spoke again, her voice was wrecked. Hoarse. She sounded barely recognizable."They've been missing, Saul."He frowned. The words didn't make sense. Missing? Who was missing?"For almost a week now." She was struggling to get the words out, each one seeming to cost her something. He could hear her breathing, ragged and uneven, could hear the way she was fighting to keep herself together. But it was difficult."I don't know what to do! I've tried everything, Saul , Everything! I went to the authorities. I filed reports. I talked to detectives. They said they'd look into it, but nothing happened. Nothing. So I led a search
Chapter 99. The Flood.
“....And if you think I saved you that day out of some deep feelings lingering inside my chest, then you've got another thing coming. I saved you because it was the right thing to do. Because if it wasn't you in that situation, if it was a complete stranger being dragged into a van by masked men, I'd still risk my life for that person. Because that's what people do. Good people." He sneered bitterly. “And despite everything you and your family put me through, I'm still a good person. But don't mistake that for affection. Don't mistake it for an open door. And don't you dare call me asking for help as if you have any right to it!"It was quiet for a few seconds, Saul's chest heaving up and down in the aftermath of his rant.“Well? What do you fucking have to say for yourself?" He snapped when she didn't respond.Swallowing thickly, Daniella's voice was wet and wretched when she managed to speak. "Please..." she whimpered. "Saul, I am sorry, for everything! But you don't understand. Th
Chapter 98. Empty Shell.
He didn't say anything. He couldn't and even if he did he wouldnt know what to say. The silence stretched out between them, heavy and strange, filled with three years of history that neither of them knew how to navigate anymore. Daniella. His ex-wife. The woman who had looked at him across a construction site and told him he wasn't good enough. The woman who had stood beside Ephraim Moore and let him call Saul a stray dog. The woman who had offered him fifty thousand dollars as the price of his marriage and seemed genuinely confused when he refused to take it.Why was she calling him? Why now, of all times, when he was exhausted and wrung out and still trying to recover from a fever that had nearly killed him? What could she possibly want?!He didn't bear a grudge for how she had treated him in the past. Not really. Well… maybe he did bear a small grudge. A modest one. His particular feelings of resentment had sat quietly in the corner of his mind and only spoke up at moment
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