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Chapter 31
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2026-09-29 12:30:42
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.“Who is there?” Zara called out, her voice barely a whisper against the hum of the cooling fans.Silence swallowed the room. The shadowy figure at the threshold remained unmoving for a heartbeat before turning away, footsteps fading back out into the long basement corridor.Zara waited, holding her breath until the air in her lungs burned. Hello? I know you can’t hear me... Who is there?No one answered.Panic clawed at her chest. She couldn't stay here. Zara quickly closed the glowing desktop tabs, powered down the terminal, snatched up her tote bag, and slipped out of the archive room. She walked out into the hallway gently, every muscle in her body coiled tight.When she reached the outer door leading to the street, she paused. She looked right. She looked left. The dark alleyway was completely empty, save for the rain slicking the pavement under the streetlight. Seeing no one, she exhaled a shaky breath and turned back toward the building—Bzzt. Bzzt.Her phone buzzed violently
Game of Hearts Chapter 31
The ink on the square of paper seemed to bleed into the white grid lines, each word a cold, calculated warning.Stop digging into Leo's final game, or Kai isn't the only one who will burn.Zara’s fingers trembled as she traced the edges of the blue archive pass. Level B. Restricted access. Someone had walked into the Herald office, slipped past her defenses, and reached into her personal tote bag while she was standing mere feet away in the Athletic Center lobby.Before she could pull out her phone to dial the mysterious number, the sharp, authoritative click of heels echoed down the basement corridor."Miss Kane, or should I say, Miss Reporter of the Hour?"Zara slammed her notebook shut, shoving the note and the pass beneath a stack of preliminary football stats just as Professor Vance stepped into the doorway. Strict, sharp-eyed, and completely unrelated to Julian Vance, despite sharing a surname that made Zara’s stomach churn every time she heard it, the head of the investigative
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6:45 AM. The clock ticked in the quiet room before the soft, erratic click of her door latch pulled Zara from sleep. A cold morning draft pushed the door open, exposing the narrow corridor outside. Her head throbbed from a fitful four hours of sleep, her body still heavy with the lingering residue of last night's tension.Her phone was already buzzing on her nightstand, a harsh, rhythmic vibration that felt like it had been going off for hours.Sitting up, she swiped the screen open, her eyes narrowing against the glare. Dozens of notifications from the "Campus Buzz" gossip page flooded her feed. Below a red header reading “SPOTTED: AKR’s Quarterback Losing His Cool,” was a looped ten-second video recorded in the dim lighting of the campus library courtyard from the previous night.In the clip, Vance’s hand was brief, intrusive, and settled on her lower back. But the camera hadn't stayed on Vance. It had zoomed past him, capturing Kai emerging from the shadows. The camera caught the
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Zara’s skin stung against the cold leather of the passenger seat, but she stared straight ahead, watching the streetlights bleed together into a wet yellow blur across the windshield.The car was silent, but it didn't feel quiet. The space between them was so jammed with adrenaline and pure, ugly tension that every breath felt heavy.Kai didn't look at her as he shifted gears, his jaw clenched so tightly a muscle ticked violently beneath his skin. His knuckles were stark white against the steering wheel, every tendon in his forearm strained under the surface. They had barely crossed the campus gates before the tension snapped, shattering the fragile silence."Did you know he was going to be there?"Kai’s voice was low, stripped of all warmth, cutting through the low hum of the engine like a razor.Zara turned her head sharply, staring at his rigid profile in disbelief. "What?""Did you know Vance was going to crash a closed campus event?" Kai repeated, his head snapping toward her, hi
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Zara barely had time to catch her breath before the crowd parted.Julian Vance glided forward like a predator accustomed to taking whatever he wanted. He closed the distance with a smooth, practiced ease that made the air around them feel instantly claustrophobic.Before Zara could step back, Julian’s hand shot out. His fingers wrapped firmly around her waist, pulling her flush against his chest."Well, well," Julian purred, his voice a smooth, dangerous velvet against her ear as his gaze lingeringly tracked the low, open back of her midnight-emerald dress. "Look at you, gorgeous. They definitely kept the real prize hidden away in the journalism department."Zara went rigid, her hands immediately coming up to push against his chest, but he didn't budge. His grip tightened, anchor-heavy, his thumb lightly stroking the bare skin of her spine."Julian. What are you doing here?" Zara said, her voice laced with sharp steel. "This is a closed campus event.""I have my ways," he murmured, pu
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The valet setup outside the Crestview Estate was a sea of luxury SUVs and sleek sports cars, but when Kai’s matte-black truck pulled up to the main entryway, heads immediately turned. Valets stood at attention, while groups of students, football players, and campus influencers lined the grand marble steps, phones already glowing in the dim night air.Zara sat rigid in the passenger seat, her eyes fixed on the overflowing entrance. Music thrummed through the heavy glass doors of the mansion, vibrating straight into the soles of her heels.Before she could even reach for the door handle, Kai was already there. He swung the door open, his large hand extending into the frame. As her fingers touched his, his grip closed firmly around her palm, pulling her smoothly onto the pavement. He didn't let go. Instead, he pulled her flush against his side, his arm sliding around her bare lower back, a possessive, unyielding weight that anchored her to him before they even took their first step."Sta
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