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Chapter Twenty - Four
"Something wrong?" Vanessa asked the moment she stepped through the door.She didn't even wait for an answer. She already felt it. The room had that kind of silence — the heavy, uneasy kind that pressed against your chest and told you something wasn't right before anyone said a word.Her mother was sitting up in bed, and the second she saw Vanessa, her hands came forward.Vanessa crossed the room quickly and took them. The grip caught her off guard. It was too tight, not the grip of someone who was fine."The doctors…" Veronica started, her voice low, strained. "They keep telling me nothing is wrong. Every single one of them. I've been saying since I got here that something doesn't feel right, and they just nod. They don't write anything down. They look at me like I'm imagining it."Vanessa frowned, really looking at her now. Studying her face, the tension in her jaw, the way her fingers kept shifting like she couldn't settle.It didn't make sense. Not after what Elena had said."Are
Chapter Twenty-Three
Vanessa had called Sam three times. Three times, and every single one went to voicemail. Vanessa stood in the middle of her living room staring at the screen until it went dark, and then she set the phone down slowly, deliberately, the way you set something down when what you actually want to do is throw it. She wasn't going to do this. She wasn't going to stand here unraveling over a man who couldn't even be bothered to pick up. She grabbed her keys and her bag. Her mother needed her. That was the only thing that mattered right now. The drive to the hospital was too quiet, and that was the problem. Quiet meant her brain had room to wander, and her brain had no business wandering anywhere near the thoughts it kept trying to drag her toward. She turned the radio on, then off again two minutes later because even that felt like too much noise. She just drove, both hands on the wheel, eyes on the road, trying very hard to think about absolutely nothing. It didn't work. She thought
Chapter Twenty - Two
The silence that followed was almost comfortable. Almost.Susan had just drawn breath to speak when Blackwood's voice cut across the room."Well." He set both palms flat on the table, a man who needed the world to feel the weight of him arriving. "Since no one else is apparently going to say anything."He let it hang there. An invitation that no one accepted."I will." He looked around the room slowly, the way men like him did when they wanted an audience to know they were being observed. "I think we are all sitting here allowing ourselves to be managed. And I for one am not comfortable with that.""How so?" Susan asked. Her voice was even. "You came for a meeting, Mr Blackwood. The least you could have done is let me address the situation at hand. But you haven't allowed that." She held his gaze. "For what it's worth, you are welcome to be uncomfortable. That is not my concern.""There it is." He pointed at her, almost triumphant. "You see that? You see the way she speaks to people?"
Chapter Twenty One
The car slowed to a stop in front of the building and Susan leaned forward slightly in her seat, peering through the window. One of the Devanchi holdings. Tall, imposing, the kind of building that reminded you exactly how much was at stake every single time you walked through those doors. Glass and steel stretching up into the morning sky like it had something to prove. She had left the office earlier than usual because of this meeting. All the board members in one place, which was rare enough on its own. These were busy people, important people, people who did not appreciate having their schedules rearranged. She needed to be present, sharp, in control. The kind of Susan they expected to walk through that door. Composed. Certain. Unshakeable. But then the call had come in. She was still in the car when her phone buzzed and the moment she heard the words she felt something loosen in her chest. The intruder had been caught. Just like that. After everything, after all the sleepless
Chapter Twenty
"All units, be advised — we have a breach. The intruder has escaped." Marcus's voice cut through the corridor the way it always did — steady, unhurried, leaving no room for interpretation. He held the telecom close to his mouth, delivered the alert with the same precision he gave every order, and was already moving toward the exit before the last word left his lips. His steps were quick but controlled, his mind already three moves ahead, calculating the fastest route and the most likely direction of escape. He did not make it far. "Looking for me?" The voice came from behind him, quiet and completely at ease, and Marcus stopped mid-stride. Not out of surprise — he had trained himself out of that long ago — but because the voice required a response, and a response required him to turn around. He did, slowly, with the full weight of his attention shifting like a door swinging on a heavy hinge. Sam stood a few feet away, hands loose at his sides, shoulders relaxed, as though he had
Chapter Nineteen
“You are going down, man. Alright?” Matt said, clearly not in a good mood, his voice edged with irritation that barely masked the anger boiling underneath. “Nothing about this is amusing, so quit with the smile.” Matt’s voice cracked with barely contained anger. His teeth clenched so hard it hurt, and his jaw felt locked. His hands trembled—not with fear, but with the frustration of standing face-to-face with a man who shouldn’t be this calm. Sam didn’t answer. He just smiled—that infuriating, knowing smile that made Matt’s chest tighten and his pulse spike uncontrollably. “You know what’s even funnier?” Matt spat, his voice low, venomous, dripping with restrained fury. “I’ll be recognized. Celebrated. And you… this dumb intruder? You’ll be locked up.” He paced back and forth, restless, each step echoing louder than it should, matching the panic building in his stomach. He couldn’t read Sam. Couldn’t predict him. Couldn’t breathe easy no matter how hard he tried. “I’ll wait to
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