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CHAPTER 99: THE WOMAN WHO CAME BACK

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CHAPTER 99: THE WOMAN WHO CAME BACK

By nine that evening, Lyra was done letting anonymous threats dictate her moves.

She stared down at the transfer receipt resting beside Richard’s photograph, the accumulated fatigue of endless half-truths hardening into resolve. “Enough,” she said, sliding the document into a folder.

Hayden looked up from his phone. “Enough what?”

“Enough playing their game.” She stood, her decision final. “We’re going to the old Vance research campus.”

“Now?”

“The transfer t
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  • BETRAYED BY MY FIANCE; REBORN AS HIS OBSESSION   CHAPTER 102: THE BOY THEY STOLE

    Before sunrise, Hayden’s security team flagged an intrusion alert at the winter house. Perimeter sensors picked up movement near the gate; someone had cut power to two surveillance cameras and vanished before the primary alarm tripped.Lyra reached the command terminal just as Hayden isolated the event logs.“Could it be Project Hawk?” she asked.Hayden studied the diagnostic report. “Given what we pulled off your father's drive, they aren't going to sit back and watch us piece this together.”Lyra stared at the evidence sleeve holding the black drive. It contained the only verifiable record pointing toward Leo’s location. “Then we move before they lock down the trail.”An hour later, they were en route to Westbridge.The facility loomed beyond a desolate industrial strip, a fortress of concrete and high-security fencing. Public filings described it as a commercial archive, but its ownership had been routed through a maze of shell corporations designed to bury the chain of custody.Ha

  • BETRAYED BY MY FIANCE; REBORN AS HIS OBSESSION   CHAPTER 101: THE HOUSE OF SECRETS

    By midnight, Lyra had stopped crying.The grief remained, heavy in her chest, but it had settled beneath something harder. Her mother was dead. Project Hawk had taken her brother years ago, and now Lyra finally had a name, a key, and a place to begin.The winter house.Hayden drove while Lyra sat beside him, turning the small metal key between her fingers. Two security vehicles followed along the dark coastal road before they turned inland toward the hills.“You should let the paramedics' report confirm everything before we move,” Hayden said.“Lydia is dead.”“I know.”“Then there's nothing left to confirm.”He glanced over. “I'm not asking you to stop. I'm asking you not to let grief make every decision for you.”Lyra looked out at the passing darkness. “Grief isn't making this decision. My brother is.”Hayden didn't argue.The winter house stood beyond a line of old cypress trees, hidden behind a stone wall and an iron gate. Lyra remembered it vaguely: cold mornings, her father's w

  • BETRAYED BY MY FIANCE; REBORN AS HIS OBSESSION   CHAPTER 100: THE PRICE OF PROTECTION

    The second explosion struck before they reached the exit.The force slammed Lyra against the wall as concrete dust rained down from above. “Keep moving!” Hayden yelled, grabbing her arm and pulling her forward. Lydia followed right behind them, one hand pressed against the damaged wall for support, her pistol raised.“Where’s your security team?” Lydia demanded.“Outside the eastern perimeter the blast may have blocked them,” Hayden answered, steering them toward a hidden maintenance door.They hurried down a concrete staircase leading to the loading bay, and halfway down, heavy, rushing footsteps echoed above.“Stay behind me!” Hayden drew his weapon.A gunshot shattered the air. Hayden shoved Lyra behind the stairwell wall just as a bullet struck the metal railing. Lydia returned fire up the landing, driving the attackers back. “Go!” she ordered.They scrambled to the loading bay doors, but the electronic handle was dead. Power had been cut.Lyra pointed to a narrow transom window b

  • BETRAYED BY MY FIANCE; REBORN AS HIS OBSESSION   CHAPTER 99: THE WOMAN WHO CAME BACK

    CHAPTER 99: THE WOMAN WHO CAME BACKBy nine that evening, Lyra was done letting anonymous threats dictate her moves.She stared down at the transfer receipt resting beside Richard’s photograph, the accumulated fatigue of endless half-truths hardening into resolve. “Enough,” she said, sliding the document into a folder.Hayden looked up from his phone. “Enough what?”“Enough playing their game.” She stood, her decision final. “We’re going to the old Vance research campus.”“Now?”“The transfer traces back to that building. My father worked out of it before the expansion. If he buried something there, I’m unearthing it myself.”Hayden pocketed his phone without argument. “Then we will go together.”“Separate cars, offset routes, security trailing at a distance,” Lyra instructed. “No one moves in until we verify the perimeter.”He studied her steady gaze, then grabbed his jacket. “Let’s go.”The forgotten research facility stood shrouded in gloom under a moonless sky. High chain-link fen

  • BETRAYED BY MY FIANCE; REBORN AS HIS OBSESSION   CHAPTER 98: THE MAN WHO LEFT NO TRACE

    By seven the next morning, Lyra decided Martin Wren would be the first person she hunted down. The authorization sheet raised far more questions than it answered. Wren had signed off on Richard’s restricted archive weeks after resigning from Vance Biotech. An equipment register linked that same reference code to an off-site storage complex, and someone had gone to painstaking lengths to wipe the digital footprint. Lyra needed to know if Wren had acted on her father’s orders, helped someone infiltrate the archive, or been used as a ghost signature. When she entered her office, Hayden was already waiting beside her desk, two coffees and a thin folder in hand. “You’ve been up for hours,” he said softly. “So have you.” He handed her a cup. “I ran his last registered address. The property was sold four years ago. The emergency contact in his personnel file is disconnected.” Lyra flipped through the folder. Wren’s employment record was brief, his resignation letter crisp and professional.

  • BETRAYED BY MY FIANCE; REBORN AS HIS OBSESSION   CHAPTER 97: THE SIGNATURE THAT REMAINED

    Lyra barely slept that night. Every time she closed her eyes, the ominous message on her phone replayed in her mind, along with the unidentified shadow in her father’s restricted archive. Someone had breached his files using an inactive company device, and Hayden had unearthed a physical authorisation sheet that had mysteriously vanished from digital records.By morning, her resolve hardened: she wouldn't confront anyone until she knew what the document actually proved.At eight fifteen, Hayden called. “The signature on the sheet has been verified against personnel records,” he said. “It belongs to Martin Wren.”Lyra went cold. “Martin Wren?”“Your father’s former executive administrator,” Hayden replied. “He resigned shortly after Richard passed.”She remembered him vividly: a quiet, precise man who managed Richard’s private correspondence and confidential matters with methodical efficiency. “Send me the document.”Opening the attachment on her laptop, Lyra scanned the authorisation

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