Lost & found: A Sister Reclaimed
I survived three years under Adrian Blackwood's control by learning to disappear. He made me believe I was nothing, and I got so good at being invisible that I almost forgot I existed.
Then three strangers showed up claiming to be my brothers. They said I was stolen from a family I never knew, a family that's been searching for me. Suddenly everything I'd buried came flooding back: wealth, danger, enemies, and a life that was supposed to be mine.
Lucien, Marcus, and Elias dragged me into their world of power and secrets. They offered protection, but it came with strings attached. Rules I had to follow. A role I had to play.
And then there's Rowan, my assigned protector who looks at me like I'm a puzzle he can't solve. Every word between us feels dangerous. Every look makes me want things I swore I'd never risk again. Trust. Connection. Something real.
But Adrian won't let me go that easily. He's still out there, circling, reminding me that girls like me don't escape.
Now I'm not just fighting to survive. I'm fighting to become who I was always meant to be, before Adrian, before the fear. The woman my family lost. The woman Rowan sees.
Some secrets won't stay buried. Neither will I.
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Chapter: Chapter 14: The Crack in the FoundationThe Kings did not make mistakes.That was the city's gospel, what their enemies feared and what their subjects relied on like scripture.But standing in the heart of their empire, I was beginning to find the heresy in the truth.The security briefing room was cold. Intentionally so. Cold rooms keep minds sharp and pulses low, a subtle psychological edge the Kings had perfected over decades.Lucien stood at the head of the glass table, sleeves rolled once at the wrist, tablet in hand. He was a machine, precise, unreadable, utterly focused.Elias leaned back in his chair, fingers steepled under his chin, his eyes drifting away from the monitors to study the faces in the room instead. Always watching. Always reading.And Rowan.Rowan stood behind me. Didn't touch me. Didn't speak. Just there, a constant, heavy shadow I could feel against my spine like heat from a furnace.The screen flickered to life, displaying grainy surveillance footage from the docks. The failed shipment ambush from
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Chapter: Chapter 13: The First StrikeThe decision was made at dawn.We wouldn't wait for The Regent to strike first. Waiting was defensive, and I was done being defensive.The war room screens glowed with live satellite feeds and financial movement charts, lines of data crawling across displays like digital veins. Lucien stood at the head of the table, sharp and composed, radiating that cold authority he wore like armor."We hit three assets simultaneously," he said, pointing to glowing nodes on the map. "Shipping hub, offshore accounts, and the Lagos relay house."Rowan leaned forward, hands flat on the glass table. "And the Regent?"Lucien's eyes went cold. "We flush him out."I stood across from them, dressed in black tactical gear that felt disturbingly natural against my skin. Like I'd been waiting my whole life to put it on.Elias watched me carefully, his brow furrowed. "You don't have to go."Lucien didn't interrupt. Rowan didn't even look at me.I tilted my head, kept my voice steady. "If I stay behind now, what
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Chapter: Chapter 12: What She Has BecomeThe interrogation room was empty now, but the air still felt wrong, thick with leftover secrets and the sour tang of fear.I'd walked out first. Didn't look back. Apparently, that unsettled Rowan more than anything I'd said inside.The corridor lights hummed as we moved toward the private wing. Lucien walked ahead, already absorbed in fresh data on his tablet, his mind three moves ahead like always. Elias stayed quieter than usual, his brow furrowed like he was working through a problem he didn't want to solve.Rowan said nothing.That was unusual.Inside the war room, the screens stayed active. The name "Regent" glowed on the central display like a dare written in neon.Lucien set his tablet down on the glass table with a deliberate click. "She extracted information efficiently."It wasn't praise. It was a clinical evaluation.Elias leaned back against the table, arms crossed. "She didn't hesitate."Rowan finally spoke, his voice rough as gravel. "She adapted."Lucien's eyes flicked
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Chapter: Chapter 11: Blood Doesn't Make a King The man didn't look dangerous. That was the first thing I noticed when I saw him through the observation window. Mid-forties, thinning hair, hands that wouldn't stop fidgeting on the metal table. He sat in the interrogation room under flat, neutral lighting, neither restrained nor roughed up. Just waiting. Somehow, that made it worse. Rowan stood behind the one-way glass with Lucien and Elias, all three of them silent as statues. I stayed in the hallway, staring at my own reflection in the darkened window. Rowan's voice crackled through the earpiece. "You don't have to do this." I adjusted the small transmitter clipped to my collar, kept my hands steady. "Yes, I do." Lucien's voice cut in, calm and clinical. "He's been here sixteen years. He knows our systems inside and out. He'll try to play on your sympathy." Elias added quietly, "Don't let him read you first." I exhaled once. Centered myself. Then I opened the door. The man looked up immediately, and relief flooded his face the se
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Chapter: Chapter 10: The Countermove The war room hadn't been used in years.It was built back when the Kings still thought threats came with faces and names, when enemies announced themselves instead of hiding in code and shadow. Now the screens lining the walls blazed to life again, casting cold blue light across the table. Financial grids. Security feeds. Encrypted data streams scrolling past in silent, neon urgency.I stood at the head of the table.Not because they put me there. Because I walked there, and nobody stopped me.Lucien noticed. I saw his eyes track the movement, something calculating flickering behind them. Rowan leaned against the far wall, arms crossed, watching the screens, and me, with an expression I couldn't read. Elias's fingers flew across the main console, his face lit by the glow of cascading code."The breach wasn't an attempt to steal," Elias said, his voice echoing in the sterile room. "It was a signature."I nodded once. "They wanted to confirm access."Lucien's brow furrowed. "Explain."
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Chapter: Chapter 9: The First MoveI didn't go back to my room. I went to the training hall.The King estate had been renovated twice since I'd disappeared, new marble, new wings, new security systems, but the underground training facility stayed exactly the same. Concrete floors. Steel beams. The faint smell of gun oil and old sweat. I hadn't been down here in five years, but my feet remembered the way.The lights flickered on as I pushed through the door. Motion sensors. The space stretched out empty and cold in front of me.Perfect.I walked straight to the weapons cabinet and grabbed the handle. Locked.Of course it was."You're not cleared for that anymore."Rowan's voice echoed through the cavernous room. I didn't turn around. "I was cleared when I was fifteen.""That was before we thought the threat was neutralized."I finally looked at him, and I didn't bother hiding the anger. "You thought wrong."He didn't argue. That was new. He stepped further into the light, his hands loose at his sides but his whole body
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