“Mr. Graves? Hold on a moment, let me check.”

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After a brief pause, the voice returned. “Mr. Graves, I’ve just inquired–Kaia went out on business.”

The answer only tightened the knot in Lucien’s chest.

His assistant’s voice followed quickly, “Sir, we’ve confirmed Mrs. Graves went to the police station. She was asking about a colleague named Vanessa–apparently, she’s been missing for several days.”

Lucien’s tone dropped to a command. “Keep digging. Pull every surveillance feed from around the entrance–now.”

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Kaia came to, disoriented, her wrists bound, the seatbelt digging into her side. The hum of the engine filled her ears. She was in the backseat of a moving car.

“Awake, huh?” The voice from the driver’s seat was ice.

She lifted her head just enough to catch Jerry’s face in the rearview mirror–cold, sharp, eyes like steel.

“Where are you taking me?”

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He smirked without looking away from the road. “Relax. You’ll find out soon enough. You’ve been dying to know about your friend, right? Well… you’re about to see her.”

Her pulse kicked hard. “Jerry! What did you do to Vanessa? She never did anything to you. Why hurt her?”

“Please. That idiot thought I liked her.” His tone dripped with contempt. “I only used her to get to you. If she’d behaved, getting you would’ve been easy.”

Kaia’s stomach turned. Just as she’d feared–she was his real

target.

“Jerry,” she said quietly, careful not to provoke him, “did we know each other before?”

“Doesn’t matter.” His voice hardened. “If it weren’t for you, she wouldn’t be where she is now. So even if we’d never met, you’d still deserve to die.”

A flicker of recognition cut through her panic. She took a chance.

“You mean Luna?”

him like a live wire, “You don’t have the right to say

as he slammed on the brakes. Kaia pitched forward, her forehead cracking

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twisted in his seat, eyes bloodshot, jaw locked. “Luna was

like he wanted to

down on her

know she broke the law. She was arrested–it had nothing

you?” His voice cracked

big because of the Graves family. You used your man

He was unhinged. There was no reasoning

steady. “Tying me up won’t fix anything. You just… want Luna out

a low,

out. If I weren’t trained in the law, maybe you could’ve fooled me. But I’m not

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hardened in the rearview mirror. “Sit back and don’t

gas, the car surging

law, and he’d still abandoned reason—he might as well have been

gone; only empty fields rolled past, the sky stretching wide

the distance. A speck in

larger.

caught.

roared in

Could it be him?

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car! It’s Mrs. Graves‘

plummeted. From the helicopter’s

small and fragile against the endless

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a straight run with no forks ahead,” the pilot called

still hasn’t caught up. And there’s no safe landing spot–forcing it down

already strapping on his harness. “Take us over that sloped grove. I’ll rappel

that’s insane. Even

“I trained for this in

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