Chapter: Chapter 20POV: KarolSomeone in the hallway was pushing the door open. They were very strong.Ciro moved fast. The deep, burning heat in his eyes turned cold. He dropped my hand, grabbed my waist, and pulled me hard behind his back."Stay behind me," he ordered. His voice was firm.The heart monitor on his chest beeped fast and loud. But Ciro did not look scared. He looked ready to kill. He sat up, ignoring his bad knee. He grabbed a heavy metal tray filled with massage oils and tools.The space in the doorway grew wider. A black leather glove pushed the heavy desk away like it was nothing.Then, a man stepped into the room.He wore a dark, wet raincoat and a black mask. Rainwater dripped onto the clean floor. He held a black gun with a long silencer in his right hand.I stopped breathing.The man pointed the gun straight at Ciro’s chest.Before the killer could shoot, Ciro yelled and threw the metal tray with all his might. It hit the man right in the face. Glass bottles broke. Warm oil splash
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Chapter: Chapter 19The First SessionPOV: Karol Kensington"Get behind me!" Ciro yelled in the dark.His strong arm grabbed my hands and my waist. I quickly ran to his back and held my breath; I was scared to death.Then, the light came on. The bright white lights of the medical room flashed back on.I blinked and looked at the door. It wasn't the killer.It was Mateo. He was dragging a heavy steel desk across the hallway floor to block the door."Sorry, boss," Mateo was breathing hard, wiping rain from his face. "The power line was cut. I just put on the generator; I am blocking this wing. No one is getting in."I let out a breath and stepped away from Ciro. The killer was still out there in the storm, but we are locked inside."It is time," I said. My voice was cold and professional. "Get on the table."Ciro did not argue. He wheeled himself to the therapy table and lifted himself up using his strong arms.I grabbed a small black box with wires."What is that?" Ciro asked, watching me closely."A hear
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Chapter: Chapter 18Setting the BoundariesPOV: Karol Kensington"Lock down every single door in this house right now!" Ciro roared."I already did, boss," Mateo said quickly. He wiped the blood off his hand with a white towel. "The storm shutters are down. The heavy steel doors are locked. But the cameras are useless in this heavy rain. We are totally blind outside.""Then we wait for him to try and get in," Ciro ordered. "Put guards at every window. No one sleeps tonight."Mateo nodded and left. The heavy glass doors slid shut behind him, locking with a loud click.I stood in the middle of the room, shaking. My stomach felt sick. A man had tried to shoot me at the airport, now my old work badge is covered in blood. It was a message. He was here, on the island, and he was hunting me."Karol."Ciro’s voice was softer now. He rolled his wheelchair closer to me. I could see the worry hiding behind his dark, angry eyes. He reached out to grab my shaking hands.I stepped back before he could touch me.If I l
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Chapter: Chapter 17Welcome to Villa AltamiraPOV: Karol KensingtonStay in the car, and keep your head down," Mateo ordered.The rain fell so hard I could barely see. The storm had finally hit the island. The wind howled like an angry animal and shook the car.Mateo and three guards jumped out into the cold rain. They pulled out their guns.Some went inside first to make sure the house was safe. They had to find the stranger from the speed boat.Ten minutes passed. Finally, the huge front doors opened. A guard waved for us to come inside.Ciro opened the car door, with the support of his staff, we ran through the rain, up the stone steps and went inside the house.As heavy doors slammed shut behind, The loud noise of the storm instantly went away.I stopped and stared. Villa Altamira was beautiful, but it was scary.The floors were shiny black stone. The ceilings were very high. One whole wall was made of glass. Through the glass, I could see dark, angry waves crashing against the rocks far below. Every
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Chapter: Chapter 16Descent to the Rosario IslandsPOV: Karol KensingtonA loud gunshot cut through the noise of the plane.Before I could even scream, a big hand grabbed my sweater. Mateo pulled me down to the floor. His huge body covered mine completely. He hid me from the open door to keep me safe."Go! Go! Go!" He yelled.Outside, I heard two more loud pops. Mateo was shooting back. A second later, everyone was inside the plane, and the pilot hit a big red button on the wall. The metal stairs folded up, and the heavy door slammed shut.The plane did not wait for us to sit. It shot down the runway and flew straight up into the sky.I lay flat on the floor. My heart was beating so fast I could not breathe. My hands shook badly. Someone had just tried to shoot me."Karol." Ciro’s deep voice was right next to my ear. His hands moved all over my arms and back, checking me. "Are you hurt? Did the bullet hit you?""No," I gasped. I looked up into his wild, hot eyes. "I am okay."Ciro let out a heavy breath.
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Chapter: Chapter 15POV: Karol KensingtonMateo’s voice was low in the quiet room. We had hidden in a safe house since the car chase."We have ten minutes. The sun is coming up, and the reporters will be awake soon. We need to leave now."I didn't get enough sleep last night; I was thinking about a lot of things. I stood up and wore a plain black sweater and jeans that Ciro provided for me. I opened the door."I am ready," I said. My voice sounded flat.Mateo checked the hallway and told me to follow him.We walked down the back stairs and out into the cool morning air. The rain had stopped. The armored SUV was waiting in an alley. The engine was already running.I got into the back seat. This time, I was alone. Ciro had left earlier, according to Mateo, to handle somethings.Mateo hit the gas. We drove onto the empty highway.I rested my head against the window. I watched the sun come up over Medellín. The sky turned a pretty blue behind the dark green mountains. It was the most beautiful city in the wo
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Ruin of the Sovereign Billionaire
Kirrily Archer walked out of Lachlan Vance’s life with nothing but a suitcase and a ruined name. Lachlan Sydney, ruthless billionaire energy mogul, believed his contract wife had betrayed him. Someone had leaked confidential information from Vance Enterprises. Every piece of evidence seemed to point toward Kirrily. He never stopped to ask why. He never discovered that Someone inside his company had threatened her with the one thing she couldn’t afford to lose her younger sister, “Tahlia”. If Kirrily refused to cooperate, Tahlia’s already fragile health would deteriorate. So Kirrily sacrificed herself, She let Sydney destroy her reputation. And when he threw her out into the rain, she left without telling him the one secret that could have changed everything.
Four years later, Lachlan’s empire comes under attack from an anonymous investor operating under the name Archangel. The mysterious trader isn’t interested in making money but is slowly buying Vance Enterprises from the inside, piece by piece. Desperate to discover who is behind the takeover, Lachlan follows the trail, He expects to find his most dangerous corporate enemy.
Instead, he finds Kirrily.
She is no longer the frightened woman he remembers. She’s confident and financially brilliant. Standing beside her is a four year old boy whose silver grey eyes are unmistakably his.
His son.
Lachlan’s world collapses, but before he can even begin to repair what he destroyed,
the first DNA test says Toby isn’t his. Someone has tampered with the evidence. Lachlan refuses to make the same mistake twice.
Determined to uncover the truth, What he finds forces him to question everyone including the man who has stood beside him since childhood.
“Callan Sterling.” His best friend.
His most trusted executive. And the man who was planted to destroy his life.
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Chapter: Chapter Sixty sevenLachlan POVKirrily flinched slightly at the word "wife," but she didn't correct me. "I had already tried once. But won't stop until I get what I want.""Then we stop him first," I said, my voice hard as steel. "We use the evidence you've gathered to expose him. We go to the authorities, the board, and the media. We bury him.""It's not that simple," she said. "Callan has allies everywhere. He's spent thirty years building his network. If we move too fast, he'll disappear before we can prove anything.""So we do this carefully then," I said. "Methodically, we will gather irrefutable proof, and then we strike when he least expects it."Kirrily nodded. "That's what I've been trying to do. But I can't do it alone. I need access to the company's internal systems. I need someone on the inside.""You have me," I said. "I can get you access to everything. Financial records, security logs, and email archives. Whatever you need."She looked at me sceptically. "You'd give me access to the compa
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Chapter: Chapter Sixty sixLachlan's POVI couldn't believe that Kirrily had been my backbone all along; she was standing in the shadows, draining her own savings to buy my shares, protecting my throne from the wolves I had invited into my house."No," I choked, my hands flying to my hair as nausea rolled over me. The self-pity burned away, replaced by a white-hot self-loathing that felt like acid in my bones. "No, Kirrily, this can't be real. You wouldn't. After the way I treated you, after I threw you out into the rain.""I didn't do it for you, Lachlan," she said, her voice flat and cold. She didn't raise her voice. She didn't scream. Her calm was worse than any rage. "I did it because my pride wouldn't let strangers ruin what we built. Don't flatter yourself into thinking it was forgiveness.""I hated you," I whispered, the confession tearing from my throat, raw and ugly. I dropped my head into my hands, my shoulders shaking as tears, hot tears, finally broke through. "God help me, Kirrily. Every day I ha
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Chapter: Chapter Sixty fiveKirrily's POV"I didn't let them swallow you," I corrected, my voice shaking despite my best efforts." Because my name was tied to your failure. I kept you afloat while you cursed my name in the dark. But that's not why I opened this folder. Look at the transaction logs from the week before the scandal. Follow the routing keys."He leaned in, his shoulder nearly touching mine. His eyes traced the digital trail down to the source. His breath caught. The ledger didn't just show rescue funds. It showed the exact financial path used to plant the fake evidence that destroyed my life.And the trail led straight to someone he trusted with his soul.I watched his face as the realization hit him. It was like watching a man drown in slow motion. The denial came first, that instinctive rejection of a truth too painful to accept. His brow furrowed, his lips parting as if to argue, to explain away what the numbers clearly showed."That can't be right," he muttered, leaning closer to the screen.
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Chapter: Chapter Sixty fourThe Midnight TruceKirrily's POVThe clock on my dashboard read 2:14 AM as I steered down the ramp into the underground parking structure of a neutral office building downtown.Lachlan had reached out to meet up with me.I cut the engine and sat in the dark for a moment, regulating my breathing, preparing myself. Then I opened the door and stepped out. My heels echoed off the concrete pillars.From the shadows near the support columns, a tall figure stepped forward into the dim light.He looked older. The lines around his eyes were deeper and harder than they had been four years ago. But the intensity in his gaze was unchanged. He wore a heavy black coat, unbuttoned, looking every bit the corporate warlord, but without the arrogant armour that had once defined him.We got into the officeThe quiet in the small office felt heavier than the storm lashing against the windows. I didn't look at him right away. My fingers hovered over the keyboard of my laptop, the blue light casting sharp
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Chapter: Chapter Sixty threeThe AwakeningLachlan's POVAcross the city, in the dim executive suite of the Vance Group headquarters, I stared at the computer monitors on my desk. My hands pressed flat against the wood, supporting my weight as if my legs might give out.The corporate archives had completed an automated update, cross-referencing legacy family filings with federal registry changes. A notification blinked in the center of the screen, refusing to be dismissed: MARITAL STATUS: ACTIVE. PRIMARY SPOUSE: KIRRILY VANCE.My eyes blurred.Still married? The words echoed through my mind like a physical blow. All these years, I had lived with the ghost of a failed marriage, carrying the guilt of broken vows, believing I had signed away the only real thing in my chaotic life. I remembered the night I signed those papers. The cheap whiskey. The blinding rage. The lies fed to me by senior executives who were now trying to take over my company.I hadn't thrown her away. I had been played, and so had she, by trait
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Chapter: Chapter Sixty twoKirrily's POVThe revelation hung in the air like ozone after a lightning strike."If you and Lachlan had split cleanly, your shared assets would have been exposed in public courts. I knew you were framed. I didn't have proof at the moment of your exile, but I knew the timing was too convenient to be organic.""How?" I asked. "How could you possibly know?""Because I've spent forty years reading people," Bronte said. "And because the evidence against you was too perfect. Too clean. Real corporate espionage leaves loose ends, mistakes, and traces. The dossier Callan presented to Lachlan was flawless. Every account, every transaction, every digital footprint aligned perfectly. That's not how real crimes work. That's how fabricated ones work."I stared at her, stunned. "You suspected Callan from the beginning?""I suspected everyone," Bronte corrected. "Callan. The board members. Even Lachlan's closest advisors. But I couldn't move against them without proof. So I did what I could. I sta
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