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CHAPTER 33 - THE DOCTOR
Kael's POVI was on my feet before Alessandro finished the sentence and Mira's hand fell from my shoulder as I moved and I looked at her directly."Don't let anyone through that door," I said.She nodded without hesitation and stepped to the bedroom doorway with a quiet, deliberate certainty that I didn't have time to be grateful for but registered anyway.Alessandro was already standing and crossed the room with a speed that surprised me given his age, the hour and the weight of everything the night had placed on him.I followed him into the corridor and we moved toward the staircase together with shared urgency of two people who had spent the entire night on opposing sides of everything and had arrived at the one point where their interests were completely identical.Raven was at the base of the stairs. She had come in from outside at some point and her expression told me she had seen the message."At the side entrance," she said. "Someone is at the eastern wall, not the gate.""How
CHAPTER 32 - BREAKING
Kael's POV"Turn around," I said and Raven was already turning before the second word left my mouth.The vehicle swung so hard as the tires found the wet road and the city rearranged itself through the windshield as we headed back toward the estate.I stared at Mira's messages and felt something happening in my chest that had nothing to do with empires or archives or press conferences. Something that stripped every layer of the night away and left only the thing that had been underneath all of it from the beginning.I remembered my mother and called Mira immediately.She answered fast and her voice was doing the thing it did when she was frightened and working very hard not to sound it."Talk to me about the current situation," I said."Your mom woke up twenty minutes ago," Mira said. "She seemed fine at first. She asked for water, I got it for her and then she asked where you were and I told her you were coming back." A pause. "Then she asked for Alessandro and her breathing changed.
CHAPTER 31 - CAMILLE'S MOVE
Kael's POVI stood in the office doorway and looked at the window and felt the night shift again beneath me.Camille, who had spent twenty-two years hiding, killed Alessandro with the patience of someone who had no other option and the precision of someone who had prepared it thoroughly, handed me a key and told me she only wanted her child safe and out of the empire's reach was the one who sent photographs of me inside the vault to a journalist.I pulled the office door closed behind me, stepped back into the corridor and called her directly.It rang four times and she answered like she had been expecting the call."You sent photographs to the journalist," I said."Yes," she said."Explain it."There was a brief pause of her trying to organize an honest answer."The journalist Alessandro has used for eleven years is compromised," she said. "Kane's people reached her two hours ago and whatever authentication package Alessandro sent her, Kane now has visibility into it."I pressed my b
CHAPTER 30 - THE CONTACT
Kael's POVRaven's hands were white on the wheel and Lucien had gone so still in the back seat that the air around him seemed to have stopped moving.I sat with the phone against my ear, the city sliding past the windows and felt the name rearrange everything I thought I understood about the shape of this night."Say it again," I said and Selena repeated herself.Commissioner Dante Reyes was the head of Blackthorn City's organised crime division. The man whose department had spent twelve years failing to make a single charge stick against Alessandro Varez or anyone connected to his empire and whose name appeared in Alessandro's archive as a recipient of three separate payments across eight years. His name name was on the list."He's corrupt," I said. "Alessandro paid him.""Alessandro paid the version of him that existed eight years ago," Selena said. "Reyes has been quietly building an independent case for two years without his department's knowledge. Kane had his predecessor removed
CHAPTER 29 - CRACKED
Kael's POVThe warehouse settled around me and the dock water moved outside as I stood with the phone against my ear with Alessandro's silence on the other end and felt the crack in my chest widen by degrees that had nothing to do with the bullet wound or the exhaustion or the accumulated damage of the longest night of my life.Selena had done this six months ago, not under pressure or because Kane had cornered her with evidence and left her no exit right before any of this began, before I knew my father's name or held his card or fired a gun for the first time in a warehouse while trying to stay alive.She had made a deal six months ago while we were still together.I lowered the phone slowly and looked at nothing in particular in the middle of the warehouse floor. Elena Luca was watching me from several feet away with those sharp green eyes and the careful attention of someone who understood that the moment required silence and was providing it without being asked.Raven stood at my
CHAPTER 28 - THE WITNESS
Kael's POVI stopped walking.The predawn street sat around me in its damp quiet, the estate gate was at my back and Raven was three steps ahead before she realized I wasn't moving and turned around.I looked at the phone in my hand staring.The name “Selena” sat in Marcus's sentence and refused to become something reasonable regardless of how many times I turned it over.Selena Hart, Alessandro's other heir, the woman who had spent six months terrified, isolated and making difficult choices to survive, who had cried in a substation and handed me a phone containing a dead man's voicemail, who had stood across a vault table and opened a letter from a father she had never known was Kane's primary witness?"Say that again," I said, trying to process what I just heard."Victor Kane's press team distributed the briefing forty minutes ago," Marcus said. "In a standard pre-conference media package. Selena Hart is listed as a witness to the hospital shooting. Her statement places you at the s
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