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284 - The Blue Journal

作者: Moon
last update 公開日: 2026-08-04 13:16:24

Nick and Ariana looked at each other without saying a word. Victor knocked again. "Ariana, are you alright?"

His voice sounded calm, but there was something unusual about it. Nick lowered his voice. "Should I open the door?"

Ariana hesitated. She trusted Victor. He had stood beside her through everything. Still, after reading her father's warning, doubt crept into her heart. Samuel had written that someone close to the family had betrayed them. She had no idea who that person was. Nick noticed
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  • CRAVING THE BAD BOY   294 - The Key Within

    The safe house felt smaller once Evelyn began to speak.Ariana sat on the edge of the couch, Nick’s solid presence at her back, one of his hands resting on her shoulder like an anchor. Daniel stood near the window, watching the street. Evelyn’s voice was quiet but steady, the kind of calm that only came after surviving too much.“Your father knew they would eventually come for the research,” she said. “He spent years building layers of protection. The journal was only the first. The files in the hidden room were the second. But the real core—the part that makes the rest of it usable—he never wrote down.”Ariana’s fingers tightened around Nick’s.“You said it was a person.”Evelyn nodded.“In a way. He encoded the final activation sequence into a living key. Something that could not be stolen, copied, or forced without destroying it. He chose you.”The words landed like a physical blow.Nick’s hand flexed on her shoulder.“Explain,” he said, voice low.Evelyn met his eyes, then looked

  • CRAVING THE BAD BOY   293 - Shelter in His Arms

    They did not return to the estate.Nick drove them to a safe house on the edge of the city, a place only he and Daniel knew about. The building was plain, anonymous, the kind of address no one looked at twice. Inside, the rooms were sparse but clean. Heavy locks. Blackout curtains. A kitchen stocked with the basics.Evelyn sank onto the couch the moment they stepped through the door. Ariana knelt in front of her, hands gentle as she checked the bruise on her mother’s cheek and the raw marks on her wrists.“I’m all right,” Evelyn said softly. “I’ve survived worse.”Ariana’s throat tightened. “I thought I lost you again.”Evelyn cupped her daughter’s face. “You found me instead.”Nick stood a few feet away, arms crossed, watching them with quiet intensity. Blood still marked the corner of his mouth. His knuckles were split. He had not let Ariana out of his sight since they left the warehouse.Daniel arrived twenty minutes later with medical supplies and a grim update. Victor had vanishe

  • CRAVING THE BAD BOY   292 - Midnight Temptation

    The old pier sat at the edge of the city like a forgotten secret.Fog rolled in thick from the water, swallowing the wooden planks and the single rusted lamp that still flickered at the far end. The air smelled of salt and damp wood. Distant waves slapped against the pilings in a slow, steady rhythm that somehow made the silence feel louder.Nick parked two streets away. They walked the rest of the distance in the dark, hands linked, neither of them speaking. Every few steps Ariana felt his thumb brush across her knuckles, a quiet reminder that he was still there. Still choosing her over caution. The memory of his body against hers only hours earlier lingered like heat under her skin, making the cold night feel sharper by comparison.At the entrance to the pier, Nick stopped her.“Stay close,” he said, voice low. “No matter what happens.”She nodded. Her pulse was already racing, but the solid warmth of his body beside her kept the worst of the fear from swallowing her whole.They mov

  • CRAVING THE BAD BOY   291 - Midnight Sins

    The old pier sat at the edge of the city like a forgotten secret.Fog rolled in thick from the water, swallowing the wooden planks and the single rusted lamp that still flickered at the far end. The air smelled of salt and damp wood. Distant waves slapped against the pilings in a slow, steady rhythm that somehow made the silence feel louder.Nick parked two streets away. They walked the rest of the distance in the dark, hands linked, neither of them speaking. Every few steps Ariana felt his thumb brush across her knuckles, a quiet reminder that he was still there. Still choosing her over caution. The memory of his body against hers only hours earlier lingered like heat under her skin, making the cold night feel sharper by comparison.At the entrance to the pier, Nick stopped her.“Stay close,” he said, voice low. “No matter what happens.”She nodded. Her pulse was already racing, but the solid warmth of his body beside her kept the worst of the fear from swallowing her whole.They mov

  • CRAVING THE BAD BOY   290 - Side by Side

    The old pier sat at the edge of the city like a forgotten secret.Fog rolled in thick from the water, swallowing the wooden planks and the single rusted lamp that still flickered at the far end. The air smelled of salt and damp wood. Distant waves slapped against the pilings in a slow, steady rhythm that somehow made the silence feel louder.Nick parked two streets away. They walked the rest of the distance in the dark, hands linked, neither of them speaking. Every few steps Ariana felt his thumb brush across her knuckles, a quiet reminder that he was still there. Still choosing her over caution.At the entrance to the pier, Nick stopped her.“Stay close,” he said, voice low. “No matter what happens.”She nodded. Her pulse was already racing, but the solid heat of his body beside her kept the worst of the fear from swallowing her whole.They moved forward together.The boards creaked under their weight. Shadows stretched long and thin. Somewhere farther down, a single figure stood nea

  • CRAVING THE BAD BOY   289 - In His Arms

    The drive back to the estate felt endless.Ariana sat in the passenger seat, the photograph clutched in one hand and her father’s letter in the other. Every streetlight that passed over her face made the tears on her cheeks glisten. She had not spoken since they left the abandoned house. Nick had not forced her to.He only reached across the center console and took her free hand, threading his fingers through hers and holding on as if he could keep her from falling apart.When they finally pulled through the gates, the estate looked different. Colder. The warm lights that once felt like home now seemed like a stage set for someone else’s tragedy. Daniel met them at the door, face tight with worry. One look at Ariana and he asked no questions. He simply locked every entrance behind them and disappeared upstairs to check the security cameras again.Nick guided Ariana into the study. The same room where the journal had been stolen. The same desk that still carried the faint memory of the

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