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CHAPTER 10 - ANOTHER HEIR
Kael's POVThose four words refused to leave my eyes.He had another heir.I stared at the phone screen until the letters blurred and my brain attempted to arrange them into something that made sense, something that fit into the already impossible shape of this night. It couldn't. The sentence sat there on the screen, quiet and devastating, like a small bomb that hadn't finished going off yet.I looked up at Marcus."Who sent this?"He took the phone back carefully, studied the number and shook his head once. "It's from an unknown routing, bounced through at least four different servers.""Surely from someone with resources," Raven said from behind me."You mean someone who wanted us to see it," Lucien corrected.His voice had changed. The theatrical composure he'd carried like a second suit since the moment I first saw him on that bridge had shifted into something quieter and more concentrated.He was looking at the phone in Marcus's hand with the expression of a man rapidly recalcul
CHAPTER 9 - BLOOD CONTRACT
Kael's POVThe warehouse fell completely silent after Lucien said those words.Father hired her himself.I stood there with a gun in my hand and blood soaking through my bandage while smoke still drifted from the barrel of Raven's weapon, and I couldn't process what I'd just heard.The words didn't fit anywhere logical in my brain. They kept sliding off the edges of my understanding like water off glass.Alessandro hired Raven. My father, a man I never met, a man who died the same night I learned he existed, had hired an assassin to kill me.I turned slowly toward Raven. She wasn't looking at me. She was staring at Lucien with the kind of cold fury that could strip paint from walls, her jaw locked tight and her fingers white around the grip of her gun.Whatever composure she normally carried like armor had cracked slightly and beneath it was something raw and dangerously close to shame which told me everything her silence refused to."Look at me," I said quietly but she didn't."Raven
CHAPTER 8 - TRAPPED
Kael’s POVDarkness swallowed the warehouse. One second the lights were on the next, everything vanished. The only sounds left were the storm outside and my own heartbeat slamming violently against my ribs.“What happened?” I shouted.“Don’t panic,” Marcus said immediately like it was easy for him to say.Raven moved instantly beside me. I couldn’t fully see her in the darkness but I heard the metallic click of a gun being loaded.“They cut the power,” she said coldly.Outside, thunder exploded across the sky and I heard the sound of lots of slow and organized footsteps getting closer that made my blood run cold.Those were Lucien’s men and I backed away instinctively while trying to control my breathing.This couldn’t be happening again, we had just escaped so how the hell did he find us so fast?Raven grabbed my wrist suddenly and shoved a cold gun into my hand which I nearly dropped.“What the hell?”“Safety’s off,” she whispered.“I don’t know how to use this!”“You’ll learn it qu
CHAPTER 7 - MONSTER
Kael’s POVWe didn’t stop running until my lungs felt shredded.Rain hammered the streets of Blackthorn City while Raven dragged me through narrow alleys and abandoned roads like she already knew every escape route in the city.The word “assassin” still echoed bitterly in my head as I glanced at her running ahead of me. She was cold, fast, deadly and apparently she was originally supposed to kill me.My shoulder burned with every movement while blood continued soaking through my hoodie and Marcus ran behind us surprisingly well for an older man.“How are you not tired?” I shouted breathlessly.“Fear doesn't make you tired!”We cut through another alley before Raven suddenly shoved open a rusted metal door hidden behind stacked crates.“Come inside.”I stumbled into darkness. The place smelled like dust, oil and old smoke and a warehouse abandoned by the look of it.Raven slammed the door shut behind us and locked it immediately.For the first time all night, there was silence, no gunf
CHAPTER 6 - BROTHERS
Kael’s POVGunfire erupted beneath the bridge and the first bullet slammed into the concrete inches from my face, spraying dust into my eyes as Raven yanked me behind one of the support pillars.“Move!” she yelled.Men flooded the bridge from both ends like shadows spilling into the rain. They wore black suits, had assault rifles and wore cold expressions.Those were Lucien’s people and my heart slammed violently against my ribs.Marcus crouched behind a car nearby, surprisingly calm for an old man caught in a shootout.“Raven!” he shouted. “Get him out!”“Oh, that’s the plan?” she yelled back while firing two quick shots.One of the attackers dropped instantly and I stared at her in disbelief.“How are you this calm?”I asked and she shot me an irritated look. “Because panicking gets people killed.”Another SUV screeched beneath the bridge and more armed men jumped out. They were way too damn many.Raven cursed softly. “This is bad.”“Is that your professional opinion?”“Yes.”Gunshot
CHAPTER 5 - THE KEY
Kael’s POVThe call ended and rain continued crashing around us beneath the train bridge, but it seemed like I couldn’t hear any of it as Lucien’s final words echoed through my skull over and over again.Did your mother ever mention the key?I slowly lowered the phone and Raven was already watching me carefully.“What did he say?”My throat felt strangely tight. “He asked about a key.”For the first time since meeting her, Raven’s expression actually shifted into real shock.“What kind of key?"“I don’t know.”“That’s impossible.”I snapped. “Well, welcome to my night because apparently everything is impossible!”My voice echoed beneath the bridge as I dragged both hands through my wet hair, trying to breathe through the chaos destroying my mind.This couldn’t be real, there was no way any of this could be real. Yesterday I was worried about hospital bills and Selena cheating on me but now armed killers were hunting me because of some underground empire connected to a father I never k
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