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Chapter 24 – Threads of Deception

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Sienna couldn’t stop staring at the message.

He’s making me help him.

Her vision blurred as tears stung, but she blinked them away. The words swam back into focus, cruel and undeniable.

Her phone trembled in her grip. “It’s her,” she whispered. “Jax, it has to be her.”

He stood like a wall beside her, his shadow stretching across the desk. His expression was carved from stone, but his jaw ticked — the only tell he hadn’t yet learned how to hide.

“Could be her,” he said evenly. “Could just as easy be Harper baiting the hook.”

“No.” She shook her head, desperate, frantic. “Look at the phrasing. Kelly used to say things like that all the time — vague, cryptic. She’d send texts that made no sense until later. It’s her.”

Jax leaned in, eyes locking onto hers with an intensity that burned straight through her panic.

“You want it to be her.”

Her breath caught. “What’s that supposed to mean?”

“It means hope makes you sloppy.”

The words hit like a slap. But behind them was fear — not his, neve
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