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Blood and Lies
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2026-06-09 15:11:02
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Billionaire’s shadow contract The Wrong Path
Chapter 62The road stretched ahead like a dark ribbon into nothing. I drove with one hand on the wheel, the other pressed hard against my side. Blood seeped between my fingers, warm and constant. Every bump sent fresh agony through my ribs, but I kept my foot on the accelerator. The closer signal was moving again — slow, deliberate, as if Marcus wanted me to catch up just enough to hope.Two hours forty minutes.The guilt was heavier than the pain. I had chosen proximity over certainty. Speed over caution. I would never forgive myself if something happened to Lila because of this decision. Riven had said her name first in the clip. I had gone against it.The car swerved slightly as another wave of dizziness hit. I corrected it at the last second, jaw clenched so tight my teeth ached. The factory lights had long since faded behind me. Now there was only the empty industrial zone, abandoned buildings and chain-link fences flashing past in the headlights. My vision kept tunneling, black
Billionaire’s shadow contract The choice
Chapter 61Darkness.Then pain — sharp, insistent, pulling me back to the surface.I woke on the cold concrete, cheek pressed into my own blood. The metallic taste coated my tongue. My side felt raw and open, the stitches long since overwhelmed. The bandage was a sodden mess. Every heartbeat pushed more warmth out, spreading slow and steady across the floor beneath me.“Riven…” The name left my lips as little more than a breath. The comms remained silent. No crackle. No response. Nothing but the heavy quiet of the empty factory pressing down on me.I tried to rise. My arms shook and collapsed under my weight. The gun rested just beyond my fingertips, taunting. I dragged myself forward inch by painful inch, leaving a trail behind me. The dizziness rolled through my head in relentless waves, each one threatening to drag me back into unconsciousness. My vision narrowed to a tunnel. I kept moving anyway.My phone vibrated in my pocket. The motion sent fresh agony through my side. I pulled
Billionaire’s shadow contract Divergence
Chapter 60Riven’s words hung between us like a blade.“The deeper signal is slower. More likely the real one. Marcus wants us to rush the obvious — and you’re in no condition to run into another trap.”I stared at the two blinking dots on the screen. My vision blurred at the edges. Blood continued to seep through my shirt, sticky and warm. The pain had moved past burning into a deep, nauseating throb that made every breath feel borrowed.“We take the closer one,” I said again, voice low. “We can’t afford to guess wrong on the long shot.”Riven’s jaw tightened. He didn’t look at me. “And if it’s a trap? You can barely stand. If something goes wrong, I’m not losing both of you tonight.”The fracture cracked wider.For the first time since the warehouse, we weren’t standing on the same side of the choice.“Riven,” I said, the name rough in my throat. “We don’t have time for this.”He was already pulling the car over. The engine idled. He looked at me then, eyes raw with everything we st
Billionaire’s shadow contract Split Signals
Chapter 59The tracker blinked on Riven’s phone, a small red dot moving northeast. We followed in silence, headlights off, the engine a low growl. My side burned hotter with every turn. Blood had soaked through the bandage completely now. Each breath pulled at the stitches like barbed wire. The dizziness was getting worse, the edges of my vision tunneling.Riven kept glancing over. “You’re losing too much blood.”“Drive.”The target building appeared — an abandoned distribution center, windows boarded, fence sagging. The dot stopped dead in the center. We parked two blocks away and approached on foot. My legs felt heavy. I leaned against a container for a breath, blood warm against my palm. Six hours had become five. Time was collapsing faster than we could move.We slipped through a side door. The interior was vast and dark, moonlight slicing through gaps in the roof. Crates and old pallets formed a maze.Too quiet.Riven raised a hand. We froze.Lights snapped on — harsh fluorescent
Billionaire’s shadow contract Six Hours
Chapter 58The city blurred past the windows as Riven drove. My side burned with every bump in the road, fresh blood soaking through the bandage and into my shirt. I pressed my palm against it, jaw clenched. The pain kept me sharp. It reminded me that this wasn’t over.Riven’s hands were tight on the wheel. “Elias’s last known location is the old warehouse district. Same area as before. He’s not answering his phone.”“Of course he’s not.” I checked the magazine in my gun again. Full. “He knows we’re coming.”We didn’t speak much after that. The silence between us was different now — not the heavy guilt from the clinic, but something sharper. Elias had been my shadow for years. The man who fixed problems before they reached my desk. The man who knew where every body was buried because I had handed him the shovel.And now he had handed Lila to Marcus.The old warehouse district rose around us, skeletal buildings and chain-link fences under flickering streetlights. Riven killed the headl
Billionaire’s shadow contract The Beach
Chapter 57The safe house appeared ahead, high walls and reinforced gates cutting sharp lines against the night sky. It should have felt secure. Instead, the moment we pulled up, the silence felt wrong — too complete, too deliberate.The front gate was ajar.No guards.No lights.Riven killed the engine. “Stay in the car.”I didn’t listen. I stepped out, gun in hand, ignoring the sharp pull in my side. Blood seeped through the bandage, warm and sticky against my skin. The world tilted for a second, dizziness clawing at the edges of my vision, but I forced it steady. I had lost too much blood already tonight. Every step reminded me of it.We moved through the house room by room. Empty. Too empty. The air smelled of nothing — no coffee, no faint trace of Lila’s shampoo, no lingering presence of the security detail that should have been here. Furniture was undisturbed, but the absence felt violent.Lila’s bedroom door was open. The bed was unmade. Her blanket was on the floor, as if she
Billionaire’s shadow contract The Net Tightens
Chapter 48Mercer cracked by 9:15 a.m.Elias sent the footage without comment. I watched it once in the study, door locked, volume low. Mercer pacing his apartment like a trapped animal, voice cracking as he left another voicemail for the vice chairman. “They’re onto us. Voss knows. I can feel it.
Billionaire’s shadow contract Counter strike
Chapter 46I didn’t confront him that night.Instead I watched.Riven moved through the penthouse like a man walking on thin ice — careful steps, quiet voice, eyes that never quite settled on mine for long. He checked on Lila twice, made her tea with the precision of someone who had done it a thous
Billionaire’s shadow contract The second thread
Chapter 45The tracker lit up at 11:03 a.m.I was alone in the study when the alert hit my secondary laptop. The poisoned file had been accessed. Downloaded. Forwarded to Marcus’s encrypted server. Riven’s credentials. No mistake. No shadow account. Just clear, undeniable proof.I stared at the scr
Billionaire’s shadow contract The Trap
Chapter 44I set the poisoned file at 4:12 a.m. while Riven slept.It looked real. A full ledger of offshore accounts, complete with dummy transactions and my forged digital signature. But the moment it was accessed from an external IP, it would trigger a silent alert and plant a tracker. If Riven
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