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The Auction

Penulis: Kave Derry
last update Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-11-26 00:39:19

CHAPTER 103

Damien’s POV

I stared at him, unmoving. “Not good enough.”

He swallowed hard. “I can...I can help you find her.”

“You already said that.”

“No,” he insisted. “I mean it. I found something no one was supposed to see.” He lifted a small backpack and unzipped it. From it, he pulled out a laptop with cracked edges and stickers peeling off. “I kept this hidden. If they find out I have it… I won’t survive long.”

He powered it on. The screen lit up, and Jackson’s fingers flew across the keys, typing in a series of commands I didn’t recognize. A black console appeared, lines of text scrolling fast, too fast for someone without training to follow.

Then a window popped open. A graph. It looked like a stock market board at first, with numbers rising and falling. But when he clicked a tab on the right, the screen shifted.

And I saw Rose’s face.

My breath left me in one sharp pull.

Her picture was positioned to the left, and beside it was a column of numbers climbing higher every few se
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