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Bred for Betrayal Chapter 30
POV: Marcus He stayed on the terrace for eleven minutes after she left. He knew the exact count because he had checked his watch when the door closed behind her and checked it again when he finally moved, and the gap between those two moments was something he had no clean explanation for. Eleven minutes standing at a railing looking at a city he owned pieces of, thinking about a woman who had just walked through a room full of people who didn't know her name. She had donated to get in. That was the part that kept returning. Not the hair, not the dress, not the way she'd said Jade's name in that particular tone that had landed like a key turning in a lock he hadn't known was there. The donation. The deliberate, resourced, unhurried act of a person who had found a door and walked through it on her own terms. He had built a picture of Nora Ashford over the months of their arrangement. Practical, contained, intelligent enough to ask the right questions but not positioned to do anythin
Bred for Betrayal Chapter 29
POV: Nora Jade left. Not dramatically, not with words. She simply looked at Marcus standing in the doorway, then at me, then made the calculation that whatever was about to happen was not a conversation she needed to be part of. She picked up her bag from the terrace railing, said nothing to either of us, and walked past Marcus through the door without touching him. He watched her go. Then he looked back at me. The shock was still present in his face, not fully processed, the particular expression of someone whose controlled environment has just produced something they didn't account for. I had planned for this moment across three days of preparation. I knew what I wanted from it and I knew how to move through it. The wire was warm against my ribs and Chen was somewhere in a car two streets away listening to every word. I let him look. The hair was darker, a professional job done four days ago, close enough to my natural color to seem intentional rather than disguised. The makeu
Bred for Betrayal Chapter 28
POV: Nora The watch had a false back. I had owned it for two years, had held it a hundred times, and had never known. The back panel released with pressure applied at a specific point along the lower edge, and inside the shallow space behind the mechanism was a folded square of paper so thin it had clearly been cut to fit. A twelve-digit number. Nothing else. I had stared at it for a long time before photographing it and putting it back. An account number was my first thought, but the format was wrong for any standard banking structure I recognized. I sent the photograph to the email address that had contacted me and got no response. Whatever it unlocked, I wasn't meant to access it alone. I hadn't told Elias about the watch's interior. I was still deciding how much that said about the current state of things between us. The gala was on a Friday. Elias had sourced the ticket three weeks before the event, a donation-level entry under the name Claire Marsh, a persona with enough
Bred for Betrayal Chapter 27
POV: Nora I sat with what she'd said about Elias for a long moment. Twice as a witness. Once as a suspect. I didn't let it show on my face because I had been practicing not letting things show on my face for months and I was getting competent at it. But underneath the practiced neutrality I was doing the rapid, uncomfortable work of reassessing a foundation I had built a significant amount of weight on. "Tell me about the suspect angle," I said. Chen's expression didn't change. She'd expected the question. "Elias Vance was connected to your father professionally for over a decade. When William died, Elias was one of the last people to have contact with him. Phone records show a call between them the night before the death, forty minutes long." She kept her voice level. "He was interviewed once, briefly, before the case was closed. His answers were cooperative and vague in equal measure. The kind of vague that's hard to challenge directly." "That makes him a person of interest, n
Bred for Betrayal Chapter 26
POV: Nora I didn't sleep after the email. I forwarded it to Elias at two in the morning and he was awake when it arrived, which told me he hadn't been sleeping either, though neither of us acknowledged that. He responded in four words. *Don't reply. I'll investigate.* I put the phone down and lay in the dark and thought about what it meant that my father had concealed a person. Not money, not documents, not assets. A person who had been looking for me since he died. The prenatal appointment at nine was at a clinic Elias had switched me to three weeks ago, different from the original, different name on the file, a precaution against whoever had accessed my medical records. The midwife was brisk and efficient and the baby's heartbeat on the monitor was strong and steady, which was the only thing in my life that felt uncomplicated. I was outside on the pavement afterward, coat buttoned, working out the walk back, when someone fell into step beside me. "Nora Ashford." Not a question.
Bred for Betrayal Chapter 25
POV: Nora I called Elias back within the hour. Not because of the kiss, I told myself. Because of the message. Because someone had been watching the lobby and had footage and was now holding it as a threat, and that was an operational problem that required an immediate response regardless of everything else. He picked up on the first ring. "I got a message," I said. "Someone has lobby footage." Silence for two seconds. "Forward it to me." I did. He called back four minutes later. "The camera covering that angle was accessed remotely at some point in the last forty-eight hours. Someone cloned the feed." His voice was controlled. "I'm coming back." He arrived in twenty minutes. We sat at the table and worked through the security breach methodically, traced the access point, identified the gap, closed it. It took two hours and neither of us mentioned what had happened before he left. The work required full attention and full attention was easier than the alternative. By the time
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