Don’t Fall for the Billionaire Lover by Rosa Winters

Chapter 1049

Connor could tell something was off with Maddie today.

Teddy was getting anxious. "Babe, what's going on? Talk to me."

Finally, Amelia broke the silence. "I need to be honest with you guys. I'm not the person you think I am. Years ago, when I got close to you, when I started helping with Pure White...it wasn't just out of kindness. I had my own reasons."

Teddy's face went pale.

"I was following orders. Have you ever heard of an organization called the Midnight Syndicate?"

Neither Teddy nor Connor said a word, but the name clearly rang a bell.

the underworld,' pulling strings everywhere, their influence weaving through the cracks of legitimate businesses. On the surface, everything looked clean and glamorous, but underneath, the Syndicate ran the show. Their

all. He took a slow sip of wine and asked calmly, "So you're one of

basically recruiting grounds for the Syndicate.

"Is he part of the

the Syndicate, nobody gets the full picture. I don't know who outranks Grant, but I do know this: every

like a

a hit from higher up, but hearing it out loud was different. And Suzanne's death

cracked, a flicker of pain in

was tied to the Syndicate, too. Maybe all these years, everything that happened was because of them, pulling strings from the dark. Connor's voice was low. "What does the Syndicate want? What's their endgame?” "We don't know what the top boss is after. We're just

Connor's eyes narrowed. "Who?"