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The first move

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Chapter 9

The city never truly slept.

From the twenty third floor of the Grand Crescent Hotel, Ashley stood by the floor-to-ceiling window, staring at the glittering lights below. New York looked exactly as she remembered beautiful, ruthless, and full of memories she wished she could erase.

She let out a slow breath before drawing the curtains shut.

Tomorrow was the Global Innovation Awards.

Tomorrow, the world’s attention would be on her.

She had prepared for this moment for five years.

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  • Ex Husband Wants Me Back: He Regretted It After I Left    The devil’s labyrinth

    Chapter 23Patrick Walker’s smile lingered long after the hatch slammed shut.His bodyguards exchanged uneasy glances.One finally broke the silence.“Chairman… should we send another team into the tunnels?”Patrick slowly turned his cane in his hand.“No.”The guard frowned.“But sir, Marcus Hale is with them.”“I know.”“And Ashley Wellspring.”“I know.”“The evidence they’re carrying”Patrick raised a hand, silencing him.“You still don’t understand.”He walked toward the edge of the pier, staring at the restless water below.“Those tunnels were never meant to protect Jonathan Wellspring.”The bodyguards listened carefully.“They were designed as a maze.”“A maze?” one asked.Patrick chuckled.“A beautiful one.”His cold eyes reflected the harbor lights.“And every maze has only one exit.”He smiled.“They’re walking toward it.”Meanwhile…The heavy metal hatch closed above them with a deafening clang.Darkness swallowed everything.Ashley instinctively tightened her grip around Do

  • Ex Husband Wants Me Back: He Regretted It After I Left    The man behind the mask

    Chapter 22Dominic saw the sniper pull the trigger.Everything happened in less than a second.The red laser sight trembled against Ashley’s chest.The sniper’s finger tightened.The rifle fired.Bang!Dominic moved before he could think.“ASHLEY!”He lunged forward with every ounce of strength he had left.Ashley felt a powerful force slam into her side as Dominic tackled her to the wet concrete.The bullet sliced through the air where she had been standing a heartbeat earlier.Instead of striking Ashley…It hit Dominic.A sharp gasp escaped his lips.Ashley’s eyes widened in horror.“Dominic!”Blood spread quickly across his shoulder, dark against the rain soaked fabric of his black jacket.For one terrifying moment, Ashley forgot the snipers, the harbor, the stolen page, and every secret surrounding them.All she could see was Dominic lying beside her.Bleeding.Because he had protected her.Again.The masked stranger reacted instantly.He grabbed Ashley by the arm and pulled both

  • Ex Husband Wants Me Back: He Regretted It After I Left    Before the truth escaped

    Chapter 21The harbor erupted into chaos.Gunfire echoed across the docks, drowning out the terrified screams of the workers who had been secretly held inside the cargo containers. The fog that had once blanketed the pier was now illuminated by muzzle flashes and the rotating lights of distant police boats racing toward the scene.Ashley stood frozen.The torn page…It was gone.Her father’s final confession the truth he had died to protect had vanished into the darkness.“No…” she whispered.Her voice was swallowed by another volley of gunfire.Dominic’s hand closed firmly around her wrist.“We’re moving.”Ashley resisted.“But the page”“It can still be recovered.”“What if we lose it forever?”Dominic’s expression remained calm, but his eyes were scanning every rooftop, every container, every moving shadow.“We won’t.”His certainty surprised her.“How can you be so sure?”“Because the man who stole it didn’t destroy it.”Ashley frowned.“You don’t know that.”“I know people.”His

  • Ex Husband Wants Me Back: He Regretted It After I Left    The secret written in blood

    Chapter 20The rain had stopped.A thick blanket of fog rolled across the New York Harbor, swallowing the distant skyline until the city looked like nothing more than blurred lights floating in darkness.Towering cargo cranes stood silently above the docks like giant metal skeletons.The harbor, usually alive with workers and cargo ships, had become eerily deserted.Only one vessel remained.A massive black cargo ship anchored several hundred meters from the pier.No company logo.No registration number.No national flag.It was a ghost ship.And tonight…It had become the center of a deadly game.Inside a speeding black SUV…Dominic’s eyes remained fixed on the glowing tracker mounted on the dashboard.The blinking red dot continued moving.Closer.Closer.Then…It stopped.Pier 17.Ashley tightened her grip on the seatbelt.“We’re here?”Dominic nodded.“They’re waiting.”“For us?”“For everyone.”Ashley frowned.“I don’t understand.”Dominic slowed the vehicle several blocks away f

  • Ex Husband Wants Me Back: He Regretted It After I Left    The shot that everything changed

    Chapter 18The rain fell harder.Cold droplets lashed against the rooftop, soaking everyone within seconds. The wind howled between the towering skyscrapers, carrying the smell of smoke and burning concrete from the floors below.Ashley remained on the ground, protected beneath Dominic’s body as another sniper round struck the rooftop with a deafening crack.Bang!Concrete exploded only a few feet away.Fragments flew through the air like tiny knives.Dominic instinctively wrapped his arm around Ashley’s head, shielding her from the debris.“Don’t move,” he ordered.Ashley looked at the blood running down the side of his forehead.“You’re hurt.”“It’s nothing.”“It isn’t nothing.”“Ashley.”His voice was calm despite the chaos surrounding them.“Look at me.”She did.“If I tell you to run…”He paused, making sure she understood every word.“you don’t stop for anyone.”Even me.He didn’t say the last part aloud.But Ashley heard it anyway.Her heart tightened painfully.“No.”Dominic f

  • Ex Husband Wants Me Back: He Regretted It After I Left    Into the fire

    Chapter 17The explosion ripped through the lower floors with such force that the rooftop trembled beneath their feet.Ashley instinctively covered her ears as another deafening blast echoed from inside the building.Boom!The glass railing surrounding the rooftop shattered into thousands of glittering fragments.Smoke billowed upward, swallowing the night sky.Below them, terrified guests poured out of the hotel’s main entrance, screaming as security guards struggled to keep order.Car alarms wailed across the street.Within seconds, Manhattan’s skyline was painted with the flashing red and blue lights of police cruisers and fire engines racing toward the hotel.Ashley stared over the edge in horror.“Oh my God…”Dominic had already shifted into action.He pressed two fingers against the communication device hidden inside his ear.“Status.”Only static answered.His expression darkened.“Alpha Team, respond.”Nothing.“Bravo Team.”Silence.Then, after several agonizing seconds, a we

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