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Chapter 1048

Chapter 1048

Jamie’s brow furrowed in frustration.

If he had gone himself, he might have spotted the trap. But he had chosen to rescue Victoria first, delegating Johanna’s crisis to his most trusted aide.

His cold instruction permitting the kidnapper to do whatever they wanted hadn’t been born of cruelty, but of strategy-a calculated move to mislead the kidnappers into thinking he didn’t care, buying time for his team to surround the villa undetected.

“Report,” Jamie demanded. “What’s Johanna’s status?”

His assistant’s voice was tense. “We tracked them to a secondary location, a villa quite a distance from here. But it’s been cleared out. All surveillance along the route was wiped. We’ve lost the trail. Johanna’s current whereabouts are unknown.”

Jamie’s expression darkened. “Useless! We’re in Marcentine. This is our territory, and you can’t catch a few kidnappers?!”

“Sir,” the assistant replied, a hint of defensiveness in his tone, “all our elite units were deployed per your orders to find Miss Victoria. The men we had left… they aren’t on the same level.”

It was the truth. Victoria had only been missing a few hours before being rescued, thanks to the top-tier operatives from both the Walton and Kalen families.

“Keep looking,” he finally said, his voice low. “The moment you have anything,

“Yes, sir.”

the call when a knock sounded at the hospital room door. Sharon entered, Thomas at her

room turned to her-sharp

Sharon had flatly refused to act as bait. The two conditions she’d offered only guaranteed that she wouldn’t prosecute Scott for his attempt on her

end, it was the combined might of the Kalen, Walton, and

they found her, she was barely clinging

“Here to gloat, Sharon? Come to see Victoria’s

her! Are you satisfied now? Her hands are ruined, just like yours! Are

unreadable, her voice calm and cold. “Even if I never play again,

words landed like a physical blow. Silas’s

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monsters so you could take her place? Don’t think for a second that without her, you’d ever be the

did you develop such a severe persecution complex? You should

still a daughter of the Kalen family. My father is Richard, my mother