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Chapter 71: The Woman in the Coastal Town
"You found me," Priscilla Vance said, standing in the doorway of a modest seaside cottage, studying Silas and Reyes with the wary, measured calm of a woman who had spent years expecting exactly this kind of visit. "I confess, I'd hoped Edmund's reach had finally grown too thin to track me down again.""We're not here on Edmund's behalf," Silas said, standing carefully non threatening in her doorway, Reyes a step behind him. "I'm Silas Cross. Jonathan Cross's son."Something shifted immediately behind Priscilla's eyes, recognition and old grief flickering across her weathered features. "Jonathan's son. I heard rumors you'd returned to this world, taking down the Assembly one member at a time. I didn't expect you'd eventually need my help to find Edmund among them.""Then you'll help us," Reyes said.Priscilla studied them both a long moment before stepping back, gesturing them inside with visible reluctance. "Come in. Quickly. I don't like conversations like this happening where neighb
Chapter 70: A Hard Conversation
"Say that again," Reyes said, voice low, meeting Marco in the dim hallway outside the estate's east wing, both men speaking in careful whispers despite the late hour. "She said babies aren't always what.""She didn't finish it," Marco said, arms crossed tight, something grim replacing his usual ease entirely. "Stopped herself right before, looked like she scared herself with whatever she was about to say. Reyes, I don't like what that sounded like. Not even a little."Reyes exhaled slowly, dragging a hand down his face. "Twenty years of unspoken feelings, now suddenly facing permanent proof that Silas has moved on completely. That's not a woman thinking clearly anymore.""You think she'd actually do something," Marco said. "To Marielle. To the baby.""I think," Reyes said carefully, "that fear and jealousy together make people do things they'd never otherwise consider. I don't know Elena well enough yet to say for certain what she's capable of. But I'd rather assume the worst and be w
Chapter 69: Cracks in the Circle
Elena stood alone near the kitchen window long after the others had retreated to their rooms, staring out into the dark grounds of the estate, a glass of wine untouched in her trembling hand.A father.Silas Cross, the boy who used to fall asleep against her shoulder during thunderstorms, who used to beg her for one more story before his mother finally insisted on bedtime, was going to be a father.With her.Not with Elena, who had spent twenty years quietly nursing a devotion she'd never once dared speak aloud, who had told herself, over and over, that patience would eventually be rewarded, that Silas simply needed time to remember what they'd once meant to each other before any of this reckoning began.She set the wine glass down with more force than she intended, the sharp clink echoing in the quiet kitchen."Rough night," Marco said, appearing in the doorway with the easy, unbothered manner that seemed to follow him everywhere, though his eyes were sharper than usual tonight, watc
Chapter 68: What the Captives Knew
"Start talking," Silas said, voice flat and merciless, circling the chair where the measured voiced man sat bound, the estate's basement cold and bare around them. "Everything Edmund told you about Marielle. Every detail. I'm done being patient tonight."The man's composure, so confident back at the manor, had entirely collapsed into raw fear now, sweat beading along his hairline despite the chill of the room. "He only wanted confirmation. That's all I know, I swear it. Once we verified she was actually pregnant, we were supposed to report back and wait for further instruction.""Further instruction toward what," Reyes pressed, standing just behind Silas's shoulder, arms crossed."I don't know," the man said quickly. "Edmund doesn't explain his reasoning. He gives orders. We follow them. That's how it's worked for as long as I've been with him.""How long is that," Silas asked."Eight years," the man admitted. "Long enough to know better than to ask questions he doesn't want asked."S
Chapter 67: The Crack
"Say that again," Silas said, voice barely a breath, the words barely making it past his throat."I'm pregnant," Marielle said again, softer this time, watching him carefully, searching his face for something she couldn't quite name yet. "Three days, Silas. I've known for three days."For a long moment, he didn't move at all.Not a flinch.Not a breath.The night around them seemed to hold itself still too, the cold air, the distant shapes of Reyes and Marco dragging two restrained men toward the car, all of it fading into something far away and unimportant compared to the five words still echoing through him.A father.He was going to be a father.Something gave way inside his chest then, quiet and total, like a wall he hadn't realized he'd spent his whole life building finally losing its grip all at once.His knees nearly buckled."Silas," Marielle said, alarmed now, reaching for his arm. "Silas, say something. Please."He opened his mouth.Nothing came out.He tried again, and this
Chapter 66: They Already Know
Silas's hand clenched hard around his weapon, every instinct screaming at him to tear through that door immediately, though decades of discipline kept him rooted exactly where he stood, straining to catch every word still drifting through the cracked window."How do they know," he mouthed silently to Reyes, who looked equally stunned beside him."Keep listening," Reyes breathed back, barely audible.The voices continued inside, one rougher and impatient, the other calm and measured in a way that made Silas's skin crawl."We can't move on her yet," the measured voice said. "Not until we confirm it ourselves. Rumors travel fast in this world, and rumors are worthless as leverage.""And if it's true," the rougher voice pressed. "If Marielle really is carrying Silas Cross's child.""Then we've found something even Isabelle never managed to locate," the measured voice said. "A weakness that isn't buried in his past. A weakness still growing, right now, completely unprotected."Silas's jaw
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