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Chapter 390 The One Who Killed Zev's Father

"That person is cunning, calculating, and dangerously extreme. Don't trust everything he says: Ze was, k eyes dark and wary. He didn't trust Shawn-and he certainly didn't believe someone like him could ever be a real ally.

But Kelly seemed to feel a flicker of sympathy for Shawn,

Zev trusted Kelly. He knew she'd never betray him, and he respected her decisions, Sef, he couldn't shake the uncase gnawing at him.

Shawn's childhood had twisted him-made him selfish and unpredictable. Whatever he might feel for Kelly, Zev didn't want her taking that kind of risk.

"I only want to bring him in so you don't have to walk this road alone, Kelly uid softly. "If he's on our side. that's one less trap to worry about." She wanted to case Zevs burden, no one-not even Shark-could trikke the foundation she and Zev had built.

No one could.

Kelly had noticed a crack in Shawn's armor, a weakness she might be able to explot. If the could win him over, maybe he'd become a valuable ally. And if not, she'd walk away without hesitation.

Shawn held secrets. A lot of them. If he ever opened up, Zev could avoid some dangerous investigations.

It had been years since Sylvester died, and Zev had spent five long years in Oasisvale chasing shadows, risking everything, and still came up empty.

Kelly wanted to help him.

"Hey, babe, there's something I've been meaning to talk to you about." On their ride home, Hanson had shown up to handle the crash, and the driver had arrived to drive them home.

Zev had spent a long time thinking about it before he opened up. "That accident-it wasn't random. Shawn's right; someone's been trying to keep me blind. An idiot, if possible. They want the company to fall apart and stop being a threat.

harmless guy-some ex-soldier who barely knows how to run

all this. He's slowly pressing in. isolating me, cutting

his family. Killed his father. Driven his mother to her death. And now Wade was barely clinging to life thanks to a cocktail of injections. Zev couldn't hold up a crumbling empire alone. Kelly wasn't just his wife-she was his anchor. His clarity. With her, he had purpose. With her, he had

shadows must've seen that and decided to break

whispered, voice hoarse. "Why not just kill me?

and sanity he'd forced himself to

had been like a bird with no feet-always flying, never

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of loneliness. No parents. No love. Just

then she came along. And something in his heart shifted, and things started to

A lover, a

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to them. Zev couldn't let anyone

you'd rather carry the danger alone.

Kelly's reason to

didn't want assumptions. She

wrong could plunge

ghost, blaming Ken for everything. But was Ken really the one behind it? No one knew

Zev and Kelly stepped

It was Ken.

He called out, panting, his face full

his features when he saw

Zev narrowed his eyes, instantly on