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HIS COLD ADDICTION chapter58***THE CRACK IN THE MIDDLEMAN
Tiana did not sleep that night.Every time she closed her eyes, she saw the papers again.Her father’s forged signature.The fake compensation form.The dates.The lies.She had spent years thinking fate had been cruel to her family.Now she knew it had been deliberate.Engineered.Signed off by men who went home and slept peacefully after.Her chest felt too tight for sleep.Vince noticed.He didn’t speak.He simply pulled her against him and let her stay there until morning came.By sunrise, they both knew what came next.“We don’t expose this yet,” Vince said over coffee.Tiana nodded.“Because if we do, Hargrove runs to Voss.”“And Voss erases him,” Vince finished.She understood.Hargrove was useful alive, unaware, and scared.Not cornered.Not warned.Vince laid out the plan with calm clarity.“We make Hargrove feel watched.”Tiana frowned. “Without him knowing who’s watching?”“Yes.”“And why?”“Because fear makes people careless. Careless people make mistakes.”She leaned back
HIS COLD ADDICTION Chapter57***THE STORAGE UNIT
Friday felt different.Heavier.Charged with a kind of quiet danger Tiana had never experienced before.This wasn’t watching from a distance.This was stepping into the game.Vince had everything planned with unnerving precision.They weren’t breaking in.They were entering.Legally.Cleanly.Without leaving a single trace behind.The storage facility was older than Tiana expected.Rows of identical metal doors.Faded numbers.Security cameras placed at strategic corners.A small office near the entrance where a bored attendant sat scrolling through his phone.Vince had already handled the important part.He had rented a unit there three days ago.Under a different name.A unit directly opposite Daniel Hargrove’s.Tiana stared at him as they walked in.“You thought of this before today?”Vince gave her a side glance. “I always think ahead.”She didn’t doubt it.They didn’t go on Friday.They waited until Saturday afternoon.Because according to the investigator, Hargrove never returne
HIS COLD ADDICTION chapter56***PATTERN IN THE DARK
The photos arrived on Sunday morning.Tiana didn’t expect her hands to shake when Vince opened the email, but they did.Because this time, it wasn’t words.It wasn’t guesses.It was evidence.Grainy images taken from a distance. Daniel Hargrove entering the club. Arthur Voss arriving minutes later. The two of them seated at a corner table visible through a side window. Heads bent close in conversation.Familiar.Frequent.Intentional.Tiana stared at the screen.“That’s not a coincidence,” she said.Vince shook his head. “No. That’s a relationship.”The investigator’s notes were meticulous.They had met every Friday for the past four weeks.Same time.Same place.No security entourage for Voss.No assistants.Just the two of them.Private.Hidden.Important.Tiana felt a cold realization settle in her stomach.“This is where he gives instructions,” she whispered.Vince nodded. “And where Hargrove reports back.”She exhaled slowly.Her father had been right.He hadn’t been paranoid.He
HIS COLD ADDICTION Chapter55 THE QUITE WATCH
They did not speak about Arthur Voss that morning.Not because he wasn’t on their minds.But because he was.He sat between them at breakfast like an invisible guest, heavy and unwelcome.Tiana stirred her tea long after the sugar had dissolved. Vince read through the investigator’s update again, eyes sharp, mind alert.Daniel Hargrove had a routine.Routine was a weakness.“He leaves his office at exactly 6:40 p.m. on Fridays,” Vince said. “Not 6:30. Not 7. Exactly 6:40.”Tiana looked up. “That’s not accidental.”“No. It’s timed.”“For a meeting.”Vince nodded.They didn’t say the name.They didn’t need to.Friday came slower than expected.Tiana had never felt time stretch like this before. Every hour felt thick. Heavy. Anticipatory.By evening, they were both dressed simply. Nothing flashy. Nothing memorable.They weren’t going to confront anyone.They were going to watch.Vince parked two streets away from the private members-only club listed in the report. The building was discre
HIS COLD ADDICTION chapter54***THE FIRST THREAD
They didn’t rush.That was the first decision they made.Not out of fear.Out of understanding.Arthur Voss had survived for decades because he never hurried. Never panicked. Never left fingerprints where they could be found.So if they were going to bring him down, they had to think like him.Vince turned the dining table into a war desk.Laptops open. Documents arranged in careful piles. A white notepad at the center where he began sketching connections between names, companies, dates, and properties listed in the files Tiana’s father had hidden.Tiana watched the lines form.Each one was a thread.Each thread led back to Voss.“This isn’t just land grabbing,” Vince muttered. “This is systematic. He targets areas before they become valuable. Forces owners out quietly. Then develops them through shell companies.”Tiana leaned closer. “Meaning?”“Meaning the properties aren’t under his name. They never were.”She exhaled slowly. “So how do we prove it?”Vince tapped the pen against th
HIS COLD ADDICTION chapter53***THE MAN IN THE PHOTOGRAPH
They didn’t speak much on the drive back.Tiana held the photograph in her lap the entire time, her thumb resting unconsciously over the face of the man Vince had named.Arthur Voss.The name felt strange in her mind. Heavy. Important. Dangerous.She had never heard it before today.And yet, this man had shaped her entire life without her ever knowing he existed.Back at the penthouse, Vince spread the contents of the safety deposit box across the dining table again.Files. Photos. Documents. Notes.This time, the pieces didn’t look random.They looked like a map.And Arthur Voss sat at the center of it.Vince opened his laptop and pulled up a profile.A sharply dressed man in his late fifties stared back from the screen.Silver hair. Calm smile. Intelligent eyes.A face that inspired trust.A face that hid monsters.“He owns half the commercial developments in this city,” Vince said quietly. “Hospitals, malls, housing estates. He funds charities. Sponsors schools.”Tiana stared at th
HIS COLD ADDICTION chapter36***AFTER THE LIE
The night air felt different when they stepped out of Caldwell’s estate.Tiana inhaled deeply, as if testing the world for the first time. The sky seemed wider. The trees taller. The silence louder.You’re not terminal.The words echoed through her mind in waves, crashing into everything she had be
HIS COLD ADDICTION chapter35***THE LIONS ESTATE
Caldwell’s estate sat on the outskirts of the city like a monument to quiet arrogance.Tall iron gates. Long private drive. Trees trimmed into obedient shapes. Security cameras placed with tasteful subtlety that only made them more dangerous.Tiana stared through the windshield as the car rolled to
HIS COLD ADDICTION chapter32***THE FIRST MOVE
The First MoveTiana woke before sunrise.Not because she had slept well — but because her mind refused to rest.The faint grey light creeping through the curtains painted the room in a dull glow. She stared at the ceiling for a long moment, listening to the quiet hum of the city below. Her chest f
HIS COLD ADDICTION chapter31***SHADOWS OF THE PAST
The city lights stretched endlessly outside the penthouse window, but Tiana didn’t look at them. Her eyes were fixed on the folder Vince had left open on the desk—Caldwell’s empire laid bare in black and white.Her fingers traced the edges of the documents absentmindedly, but her mind wasn’t on the
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