“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?”

a live wire, “You don’t have the

the brakes. Kaia pitched forward,

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eyes bloodshot, jaw locked. “Luna was kind. Innocent.

like he wanted to tear her apart with

down on her lip,

grad from a top–tier school. You know she

His voice cracked into a

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

He was unhinged. There

her voice steady. “Tying me up

gave a low,

I weren’t trained in the law, maybe you could’ve fooled me. But I’m not some idiot off the

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

gas,

Years studying the law, and he’d

her head to the window. The city was long gone; only empty fields rolled past, the

A

larger.

caught.

pulse roared in her

Could it be him?

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it–the car! It’s Mrs.

plummeted. From

and fragile

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forks ahead,” the pilot called

caught up. And there’s no safe landing spot–forcing it down here would

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

insane.

this in college. You

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