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CHAPTER 27: TRAPPED.

Author: Iamur_Light
last update Last Updated: 2025-08-07 01:30:37

Adrian’s POV

The conference room was too quiet.

A fake meeting, a fabricated agenda, and a carefully planted invitation to lure Mason, or one of his puppets, out of hiding. I stood by the window, my arms crossed tightly over my chest, pretending to read the city below, but my mind was elsewhere, the numbers on the screen, the corporate babble being thrown around the table, none of it mattered, we were bait, and everyone in that room, Noah, our allies, a few loyal staff, knew it.

I could feel Noah’s eyes on me from across the table, that gaze had become a constant, fierce, grounding, and maddeningly impossible to ignore. Our night together hadn’t untangled anything, if anything, it had made everything worse. I wanted him closer, but now wasn’t the time to ache for softness, it was a time to strike.

Then the lights flickered.

A moment’s pause, then another.

My breath caught in my chest.

A loud bang erupted from outside the meeting room. The glass walls trembled, one of the staff
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