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The news had come as a shock of pure relief, a bright spark in the constant, low-grade anxiety that had become Chloe’s normal. When Chance’s call came—terse, focused, but with a thread of something like hope—telling her Wilfreda was back, safe, at the penthouse, Chloe hadn’t hesitated. She’d cancelled her afternoon meetings and driven straight over.She hadn’t even bothered to ask after Helsin as all her thoughts were only consumed with the safety of Wilfreda.Her disappearance had come as a blow to her. And now that she had been found, she just couldn’t wait to see her and give her a warm embrace.By the time she arrived at the penthouse, it was in its usual state of controlled tension—something she had finally come to be in terms with.In the main living area, Chance stood with Leo and two other members of his security team, their heads bent over a tablet displaying a satellite map. Chance’s posture was rigid, his finger stabbing at the screen. “…grid search from the epicenter out
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Brenda had hardly dropped the phone when it buzzed again. The number on the screen was none other than Richard’s.She had been expecting the call to come and had been afraid of what to tell Richard if he should ask about her developments with finding out where Steven was hiding.The fact that she had really failed to kill Steven and Susan twenty years ago was still something she was yet to comprehend.She had been so certain that both of them had died in that crash only for the truth to later come out that it was all a lie and that the doctor who had carried out the test on the bodies had falsified the results.And that had made the last twenty years of her life a a falsehood celebration of a victory that she never won.But now that she had found traces, her fear had slowly melted away and she now had something concrete to report back to him.Even though that wasn’t what Richard was expecting to hear from her, it would be enough to convince him that she hadn’t been idle and it would a
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Susan sat in the chair she’d come to think of as hers, her body angled toward the bed where Steven lay perfectly still, a network of tubes and wires connecting him to the machines that breathed for him, fed him, and testified that he still clung to this side of the veil.The rise and fall of his chest was a mechanical sigh, out of sync with the persistent, green blip on the monitor. That blip was her anchor. As long as it traced its relentless line, hope—however frail—had a heartbeat.She’d been talking to him in a low murmur for the past hour, a one-sided conversation filled with updates he couldn’t hear. She told him about Gary’s strength, about Philip’s steadfast heart. She told him about Chance’s war, about Wilfreda’s rescue. She did not tell him about Robert’s machinations or the Aurelian ring. Some burdens, even in a coma, were too heavy to share.Though far away from the rest of the O’ Connors, Susan was well aware of almost everything that was happening with them. She had men
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Helsin had remained frozen in the middle of the bleak room, her heart hammering against her ribs. She’d been listening for Wilfreda’s voice for days, for any sign. That hadn’t been a voice. It had been violence. And then nothing.“Wilfreda?” she whispered into the stale air, her voice cracking. No answer.Minutes stretched, each one an agony of dread. She paced the short length of her cell, her mind conjuring terrible images. Had Robert grown tired of his psychological games? Had Chance’s forces finally come, and a firefight ensued? Was her daughter lying in a pool of blood just floors away?The click of the lock was deafening. The door swung open, and Robert entered. He looked… pleased. A faint, serene smile played on his lips as he moved to a small side table where a decanter of red wine sat. He poured a glass with deliberate, unhurried care, the rich glug of the liquid the only sound in the room.“What’s going on?” Helsin’s voice was a raw scrape of fear and fury. She took a step
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(Few moments earlier)It began with a shout, the sound of a scuffle outside her door. A gunshot rang out, shockingly loud in the concrete space. Then another. Boots pounded on the grated metal walkway. Her door was flung open not by her usual taciturn guard, but by a different man—one of Robert’s, his face a mask of panicked urgency.“The perimeter’s breached! Move!” he barked, not at her, but to someone down the hall.In the confusion, he seemed to forget about her for a critical second, turning to return fire down the corridor. This was her moment. The one Robert had drilled into her. "You see an opening, you take it. You run like hell, and you don't look back."With a surge of adrenaline that felt both terrifying and performative, Wilfreda lunged. She shoved the distracted guard from behind, sending him stumbling into the doorframe. She didn't wait to see if he fell. She sprinted, barefoot, into the cold, dark labyrinth of the warehouse.More gunfire echoed, flashes of light illumi
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The signal came in not as a crackling voice over the comms, but as a silent, digital ghost. A single, encrypted data packet, bounced through three anonymous satellites before blooming on the screen in the security command center beneath Chance’s penthouse.It was a set of coordinates—precise and isolated. A derelict water treatment plant on the industrial fringe of the city, a place of rust and shadows.Attached was a single line of text, source untraceable: ‘O’Connor asset. Female. Alive. Minimal guards. Move fast.’Leo, the head of Chance’s tactical team, stared at it. For weeks, they had scoured the city, chasing dead ends and false whispers. This felt different. It felt like a gift, which immediately made his instincts scream ‘trap’.But it was the only lead that didn’t smell like decay.He picked up the dedicated line to Chance. It was answered on the first ring.“Talk to me,” Chance’s voice was a low growl, stripped of all patience.“We have a hit, sir. An anonymous tip. Coordin
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