Chapter: Chapter 43Chapter 43Dante’s POV“We cannot just storm the place,” I said, leaning over the table with the map spread out between us, my finger tapping the building layout while Damson stood across from me with his jaw tight and his eyes hard like he was already halfway into a battlefield, “I know that is your instinct and believe me it is mine too but there are too many things we do not know and too many ways this can go wrong.”“She is my daughter,” Damson replied, his voice low but sharp, his hands pressing flat on the table as if holding himself back, “and I have men, resources, authority, I can pull strings you cannot and I can bring this place down in one night.”“And that is exactly why we cannot do that,” I said, meeting his stare without backing down, “because someone in authority is already helping them and if we move loud they will know before we even get to the door and Lily will disappear again or worse.”He exhaled through his nose, clearly angry but listening, and I pressed on be
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Chapter: Chapter 42DANTE’S POV“You did what,” I asked immediately, my voice tight as I leaned back in the chair, my hand tightening around the edge of the desk as if it could anchor me against the weight of what I was hearing, and even though I tried to remain calm I could feel my pulse rising because I had spent days thinking that Lily was gone and that every lead was cold and that nothing could save her and now Damson words had thrown everything into a new light.“I implanted a tracker when she was still a child,” Damson said calmly, leaning against the doorway, his arms crossed, his military posture straight and rigid even though he was here in my office and not on a mission, “I had to make sure that if anything ever happened to her and she was in danger we would have some way of finding her.”“You what,” I repeated, more slowly this time, my chest tightening, “you implanted a tracker in her body when she was a kid, and you never told me.”“I did not tell anyone,” he said, “because the technology is
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Chapter: Chapter 41DANTE’S POV“I should have called you earlier,” I said into the empty office, my voice sounding rough and unfamiliar as it echoed back to me without answer.The chair across my desk was empty and the silence in the house pressed down on me harder than any enemy ever had, because every room reminded me that Lily was still missing and that time was slipping through my fingers while I stood still, afraid of one call I had avoided for too long.I sat there with my phone in my hand, turning it over slowly like the weight of it could change if I looked at it long enough, because calling her father meant saying the words out loud, it meant admitting failure, and failure was something I had never allowed to exist around me.“You do not lose,” I muttered to myself, gripping the phone tighter.But Lily was gone.And every hour that passed made the danger feel heavier in my chest, sharper, more real, because the longer she stayed missing the more I imagined what could be happening to her, what s
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Chapter: Chapter 40DANTE’S POVI walked through the penthouse slowly that night with no destination in mind, every room feeling empty even though nothing had changed physically, and the quiet pressed against my ears until it became impossible to ignore my own thoughts, which had been circling the same memories again and again since Lily disappeared.I stopped in the hallway outside her room and stared at the door longer than I should have, my hand hovering near the handle before I finally pushed it open and stepped inside, letting the door close behind me as I stood there breathing in the space she had occupied for months, and I sat on the edge of the bed without turning on the lights because I did not need them to remember her.“She was acting strange,” I said aloud to no one, my voice low and rough.I leaned forward, elbows on my knees, my hands clasped together tightly.“She was quiet,” I continued, “always distracted, always somewhere else.”The more I replayed it, the heavier my chest felt, because
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Chapter: Chapter 39Dante’s POV“I don’t understand how someone could just erase her like she never existed,” I said, my hands clenching around the edges of my desk so hard I thought I might leave a mark on the wood and I could feel the tension twisting in my stomach because everything about this felt unreal and wrong, like someone had reached into my life and pulled out the part that mattered most and left a vacuum behind.Trevor Calder, who had been my friend since before I had any reason to trust anyone outside my circle, just stood there leaning against the doorframe of my study with that calm ex-military expression I had come to rely on when nothing else made sense, and he said, “Dante, I am not going to sugarcoat it for you, the people who did this to her, they knew exactly what they were doing and they left nothing behind to track, nothing that even someone like me could follow and I have seen a lot of things in my time that people would think were impossible but this is something different, this
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Chapter: Chapter 38DANTE’S POVI was standing in the center of the control room of my private security headquarters and the hum of computers and monitors was like a background pulse I could not ignore because my mind had been racing ever since I found out that Lily was missing and the room itself felt too small and too quiet for the chaos I felt pressing down in my chest as I stared at dozens of screens stacked on top of each other showing feeds from every camera on the property and beyond, but every time I looked at one I saw nothing I needed, nothing that gave me the slightest clue, nothing that made sense, nothing except empty rooms and static air and the faint shimmer of time passing too slowly and my fingers curled into fists at my sides because every second she remained missing made the panic grow a little more inside me.I swore under my breath when I realized the feed from the east gate had been cut and jumped hours ahead, leaving only the image of a black SUV leaving the premises and then nothi
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