“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?”

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

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

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locked.

to tear

her lip, fighting

you’re a law grad from a top–tier school. You know she broke the

to do with you?” His voice cracked

of the Graves family. You used your man to frame Luna. This-” he jabbed a finger

her–he wasn’t just angry. He was

me up won’t fix anything. You just…

gave a low, humorless

both know she’s not getting out. If I weren’t trained in the law, maybe

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

the gas,

studying the law, and he’d still abandoned reason—he might

empty fields rolled past, the

in the distance. A speck in the sky,

larger.

caught.

pulse roared

Could it be him?

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car! It’s Mrs. Graves‘

From the

and fragile

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is a straight run with no forks

team still hasn’t caught up. And there’s no safe

was already strapping on his harness. “Take us over that

insane.

eyes with the bodyguard. “I trained for this in college. You keep flying and find

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