PROOF TO RUIN: 10 STEPS TO KILL A BILLIONAIRE
Katherine Hall has spent six years trying to forget Heath Moore. The video he leaked when she was seventeen destroyed her family—her father died the from shame, her mother fell into debt, and Katherine's future was ripped away.
Now she's back in London, desperate and broke. Her mother is in the ICU with £43,000 in medical bills, and the clock is ticking. The only offer that can save her comes from the one person she swore she'd never see again.
Heath Moore is offering her a job. It's a fortune. It's a trap. It's everything she hates.
But the deeper Katherine falls into Heath's world, the more she realizes nothing is what it seems. Strange encrypted files. Mysterious shell companies. A project codenamed MARIS with ties to a global conspiracy. And Heath—cold, guarded, and watching her every move—is hiding something.
When she's abducted and interrogated about MARIS, Heath arrives to save her, and he finally tells her the truth:
He built MARIS. It's an autonomous targeting system that feeds assassination orders to drones and military networks. He never meant for it to be used this way. And now, the people controlling it will kill anyone who tries to stop them.
Katherine agrees to help him destroy MARIS. But she has one condition: when it's over, he disappears from her life forever.
As they race across continents, hunted by assassins and betrayed by allies, Katherine discovers the one thing she never expected—the man she hates is the only person she can trust. And the love she buried six years ago is the only thing that can save them both.
The truth is never as clean as the story they tell you. But love is the only thing that makes it worth finding.
Basahin
Chapter: Chapter 39"You can forget about that. I'm not giving it to you."Selene’s expression hardened.“Mr. Moore, I’m not a killer.” She touched the faint red mark around her neck. “Please don’t force my hand.”"You have 48 hours to make up your mind." Then she crossed the courtyard and slipped into the black limousine waiting beneath the trees.34RJTYI picked up my phone and called the one person who I knew must have caused this."Vito, tell me how Selene knows about Hengry Hall journal.""I have no idea, Don.""You're the only other person who knew about the book. So don't lie to me." I paused, then it came to me. "Did anything go wrong while you were entering Egypt?""N-" Vito stopped himself. "Something did. But we took care of it."I wanted to know the details, but it was too risky doing it over the phone. "Fine. Run this plate," I said, texting him the details. "Get me everything on Selene, and prepare for extraction.""Yes boss."KATHERINEI kept kicking and screaming, pounding at the door as
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Chapter: Chapter 38The men trying to kill us had better accommodations.Our safehouse was three rooms above a pharmacy in Alexandria, with a door that didn't quite close and a kitchen that contained one can of chickpeas.We'd nearly died twice today.Apparently, surviving came with a terrible meal plan."Feast," Heath said, setting the items on the counter like he was presenting me with a five-course meal.I picked up the can. There was no can opener, so I peeled the lid back with my fingernails and ate three chickpeas straight from the tin.Heath watched me. His shirt was torn at the shoulder, blood dried dark against the fabric."Stop staring," I said."I'm not staring.""You're checking if I'm about to break.""I'm not—"He stopped and rubbed the back of his neck."Fine. Are you?"I ate another chickpea, chewing it slowly. From outside, I heard the sound of an engine stop right outside.Heath stopped eating.“What?”“Nothing.”He kept looking at the window. “Is someone there?”“No" he squinted throug
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Chapter: Chapter 37The impact tore through me like a physical force, hurling me against the seat in front of me. I felt something crack—a rib, maybe, or just my sanity—and then the world went silent. When I opened my eyes, I was hanging upside down. The plane had come to rest on its side, groaning like a dying beast. Smoke coiled through the cabin. Somewhere behind me, there was fire. "Katherine!" Heath's voice, closer now. His hands found my waist, unhooking my seat belt, lowering me to the crumpled ceiling. "Are you hurt?" "I don't think so." I tested my limbs, wincing at the pain in my ribs. "You?" "I'm fine. We need to move. Now." He pulled me through the wreckage, past the pilot's body—I didn't look, couldn't look—and out into the blinding Egyptian sun. The air hit me like a furnace, dry and harsh, and I realized I was shaking. "Are you okay?" Heath's hands were on my face again, searching my eyes for damage. "Katherine, talk to me." "They're going to find us." "Yes." "The pilot—" "He was
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Chapter: Chapter 36I pressed my forehead against the cool window, watching London shrink into a patchwork of lights and shadows below. Six hours ago, I'd been standing in a safe house, my mother's hand in mine, trying to memorize the lines of her face in case this was the last time I'd see it."Still afraid of flying?" Heath's voice came from behind me, that low rumble I'd learned to read like a pulse. I could tell when he was trying to be light, when he was deflecting, when the weight of everything we carried pressed down on his shoulders."I'm afraid of everything," I said, not turning around. "Didn't you know that's my defining characteristic?"He moved closer, and I felt the warmth radiating from his body before he settled into the seat beside me. Our shoulders almost touched. He'd given me space for the first hour of the flight, retreating to the opposite end of the cabin with a tablet full of encrypted files. Now he was here, and I could smell his cologne—something expensive and subtle, like cedar
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Chapter: Chapter 35My father hadn't died of shame. He hadn't died because of me. He'd been murdered because of what he'd discovered. The guilt I'd carried for six years—the weight that had bent my spine, hollowed my chest, made me believe I was poison to everyone I loved—evaporated in a single, terrible instant. I was still crying when Heath found me. He stood in the doorway, his frame filling the space, his eyes dark with concern. He'd come to check on me, to ensure the security detail was in place, to make sure no one else had been sent to finish what the men at the hospital had started. "Katherine?" His voice was soft, uncertain. I looked up at him, my cheeks wet, my breath ragged. And for the first time, I didn't push him away. "I was wrong," I whispered. "I was so wrong." He crossed to me, kneeling beside the chair, his hands finding mine. "What happened?" I showed him the journal. He read the final entry, and I watched his face transform, the carefully constructed walls crumbling, revealing
Huling Na-update: 2026-08-03
Chapter: Chapter 34Mum's eyes had already fluttered closed, the effort of consciousness too much to sustain. Her breathing deepened into sleep, her hand going slack in my grasp.I sat frozen, my heart pounding against my ribs. My father. The symbol. The men who'd attacked my mum. It was all connected. It had always been connected.I kissed my mum's forehead and left the room, closing the door softly behind me. Heath was waiting in the corridor, his back against the wall, his expression unreadable."She's asleep," I said."Good." He pushed off from the wall. "We need to talk."We moved to the living room, a space that was too elegant for a safe house. I sank onto the sofa, suddenly exhausted. Heath sat across from me, his elbows on his knees, his hands clasped together."I've been thinking," he said slowly. "About what happened tonight. About the men in the hospital.""They were MARIS, weren't they? Or whatever group controls it."He nodded. "My father's people. Or Steen's. I don't know which. But the fac
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