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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.

silent for a long moment. “Keep looking,” he finally said, his voice low.

“Yes, sir.”

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

the room turned to

flatly refused to act as bait. The two conditions she’d offered only guaranteed that she wouldn’t prosecute

the combined might of the Kalen, Walton, and Malcolm families that had

she was barely clinging to her

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

at what they did to her! Are you satisfied

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

landed like a physical blow. Silas’s

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wanted? For Victoria to die at the hands of those monsters so you could take her place? Don’t think for a second that without her, you’d ever be the Kalen family’s treasured daughter! I will only ever acknowledge Victoria as my

Sharon’s lips. “Silas, when did you develop such a severe persecution complex? You should use this opportunity

or not, I am still a daughter of the Kalen family. My father is Richard, my mother is Shayla. Your acknowledgment doesn’t change