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Chapter 141. Amends
Saul leaned forward, scanning the list. The names meant nothing to him, but the pattern was unmistakable. "Someone's been funding the kidnappings. Using the stolen money from the company.""It looks that way." Kim rubbed her eyes with the heels of her hands. "I can't prove it yet. The connections are circumstantial. But the timing is too consistent to be coincidence." She dropped her hands and looked at him, and for a moment, the mask slipped. He saw the exhaustion underneath, the grief, the desperate hope she was trying so hard to contain. "We need to talk to Cross. She has access to the official investigation. She'll know when the kidnappings started, who the first victims were, how the pattern evolved. We have pieces, Saul. We have so many pieces! But we need context to make them fit."Saul nodded. "We agreed we'd reach out to her in the morning. It's morning now.""It's morning," Kim echoed. She looked down at the notebooks scattered around her, at the hours of work she had pou
Chapter 140. Power Through.
The question landed between them like a stone dropped into still water. Saul felt his thoughts stutter, the careful progression of his mind interrupted by something he had not seen coming. "No," he said, and the word came out before he had time to consider it. "I don't."Kim nodded slowly, as if she had expected that answer and was not sure whether to believe it. Her expression gave nothing away and that's why he didn't expect her next question. "Did you sleep with her?"The room went very quiet.Saul felt like answering anything but this but Kim just sat there, her hands still folded in her lap, her eyes fixed on some point in the middle distance, asking him a question she already knew the answer to."Yes," Saul whispered shyly.And Kim's composure shattered like glass. "How could you?"The words burst out of her, sharp and jagged and full of something that sounded like betrayal. Her hands unclasped and gripped the edge of the sofa cushion. Her eyes, which had been so carefully bl
Chapter 139. In My Feelings
Kim was already thinking ahead about how to solve that problem. leaning back she pushed a hand through her slightly curling hair. "You're right. Miss Hale said the site can only be accessed once. The moment we leave, it disappears." She stood up from the sofa, her legs stiff from sitting too long in one position."We need to write everything down. By hand with no digital copies or at least nothing that can be traced back to her server."Saul nodded and reached for the legal pad and fountain pen she had brought him earlier. "Right. But….this is going to take a while.""It might take all night." Kim paused, her hand resting on the back of the sofa. "I have supplies in my office. More paper. Better pens. And I have something else, too."Saul looked up at her, his brow lifting slightly. "S-factor."Kim nodded sharply."In the patch form. It'll help us get through this faster." She saw the hesitation flicker across his face and added quickly, "It's safe. I've used it before. Leo used it.
Chapter 138. Digital Footprints.
The screen went dark for a moment, and then a new page materialized, stark and elegant against the black background. The text was in white, the font clean and precise, and at the top of the page, in letters that seemed to glow, was a message.Welcome, Mr. Kinai.As you know, I've had the pleasure of lending a helping hand once again. I trust that my work will far exceed your expectations by the time you've finished here. This site was specially curated for you. It can only grant access to one IP address, and it can only be used once. The moment you leave, the site will be taken down, rendering the link that brought you here completely useless. So whatever information you glean from these pages, I suggest you write it down. Analog style. We don't want any unwanted digital footprints, now do we?Until next time,XXXOBelow the message, there was nothing but an arrow. A single, elegant arrow pointing downward, inviting them to scroll further.Kim and Saul stared at the screen. The sile
Chapter 137. Xoxo.
Saul was quiet for a long moment.She heard him set the laptop aside, heard the soft sound of his footsteps crossing the room toward her.He stopped a few feet away, close enough that she could feel the warmth radiating from his body but not so close that she felt crowded."I can't tell you it's going to be okay," he said. "I don't know what it will be. But I know Leo. Granted, I've only known him for a few weeks, but I know him. He's smart and he's resourceful. He survived a terrorist level attack in that police station and he managed to get you out of there alive. Whatever he's facing right now, he's facing it with that big brain of his and endless amount of optimism.""Well, he's not as optimistic as he pretends to be!" Kim snapped, and her voice cracked on the words."He's been pretending to be brave since we were children!" She scoffed, eyes rolling, “Idiot
Chapter 136. Pretense.
She saw him flinch, just slightly, just a tightening around his eyes, and she felt a rush of guilt that she quickly suppressed.She knew she was still angry, still hurt. She couldn't get the memory of smelling Veronica's perfume on his shirt out of her mind, the memory of it was imprinted there, branded in her mind that her husband probably had…. No, she didn't want to think about this. She couldn't.It would drive her mad if she did. Hunching in on her herself, she murmured." Sorry.”"No," Saul disagreed quietly. " You're right. I don't actually know you…..But I'd like to."The honesty of it disarmed her.She looked away, her gaze dropping to the paper bag on the coffee table. "What did you bring?""Food. From the place on Fifth. The one with the red awning. You mentioned it once, in passing, when we were
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