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He Made Me Sign Away My Daughter Chapter 23
RANEThe house was quiet in the particular way it only got after ten o'clock, when the staff had gone and the radiators ticked instead of talked. Rane stood in the hallway outside Mara's study with a glass of whisky he hadn't touched and a key in his pocket he'd had cut eight months ago, back when he still told himself it was for emergencies.He tried the handle first, out of some leftover instinct toward honesty. Locked."Since when do you lock your own study, Mara?" he said to the empty hallway, and didn't like how his voice sounded saying it — thin, almost hurt, like a man rehearsing a line for later.He let himself in.The desk lamp threw a cone of amber light over papers she'd left stacked with her usual precision — invoices, a printed itinerary for Geneva, a birthday card she hadn't sent yet. He wasn't looking for any of that. He was looking at the bottom drawer, the one that never used to lock, the one he'd watched her test twice last week with her thumb before glancing over he
He Made Me Sign Away My Daughter Chapter 22
ISABELLA“Get Priya’s phone. Now. Before she reaches her car.” I was already moving before Chloe answered.The words came out flatter than I felt. That was the trick of it — the calmer my voice, the more everyone in the room understood how bad this was. Chloe didn’t ask why. She just pulled out her own phone and started walking backward toward the stairwell, already dialing building security.“On it,” she said. “Ground floor exit or garage?”“Both. Cover both.”I hit the elevator button four times, like that would make it faster. It didn’t. By the time I got to the lobby, Priya was already at the revolving door, coat half-on, purse over one shoulder, phone in her hand like a life raft.“Priya.”She turned, and for half a second I saw something cross her face that wasn’t surprise. It was closer to relief — the look of someone who’d been waiting for a thing to finally happen so she could stop carrying it alone. Then it was gone, replaced by something more practiced.“Isabella. I was jus
He Made Me Sign Away My Daughter Chapter 21
ISABELLA"Who else has been in this room tonight?" I asked.Nobody answered right away. They looked at each other instead."Talk," I said, louder this time.Antonio moved first. He walked to the door and checked the hall. Then he pulled it shut and turned back to face us."Three people came in before Fen set up," Antonio said. "Marcos. Reyes. And Luca.""Luca has access to this floor?" Dante asked, his voice sharp and flat."He has access to the whole building," Antonio said slowly.Fen was still staring at his screen. His hands rested on the keyboard but he was not typing."Someone sat at this desk," Fen said quietly. "Someone who knew exactly which file to open and when to close it without leaving a trace.""But they did leave a trace," I said, stepping closer to him. "The timestamp.""Yes," Fen said. "Either they made a mistake. Or they wanted us to find it."I looked at the screen one more time. The name was still there. Staring back at me."Is there any way to track who accessed
He Made Me Sign Away My Daughter Chapter 20
ISABELLANobody moved.The audio file had ended but the room still felt full of my father's voice.I kept my hands flat on the table. I kept my face still. I did not want anyone to see how hard I was shaking inside."Second file is ready," Fen said.He clicked it open before anyone told him to. The image loaded slowly from the top down.A street. Daylight. A police precinct in the background.Two men. Standing close. Near the side entrance."Do you know either of them?" Antonio asked.I looked at the man on the right first. I did not know him.Then I looked at the man on the left.My whole body went cold."Sarah," Dante said. His voice was sharp. "Who is he?"I did not answer right away. I could not."Sarah." Christian said my name this time, lower and quieter than Dante.I forced myself to speak. "I need a minute.""You don't have a minute," Dante said, moving closer to the screen. "Tell us who he is.""I know him," I said finally."From where?" Antonio asked."A photograph," I said.
He Made Me Sign Away My Daughter Chapter 19
ISABELLA"Don't touch it." Christian appeared from nowhere and stepped between me and the table.The package sat open right there. I had not even heard him come in."What is your problem?" I asked, staring at his back as he blocked my view."That drive could be rigged," he said, not turning around."Rigged how?" I asked, taking one step closer anyway."Malware. A tracker. A program that burns everything the second you plug it in." He finally turned. His eyes were flat and serious. "So step back."I stepped back. Not because he told me to. Because he was right and I knew it.Dante walked in right after, his phone already to his ear. Antonio came in behind him, quiet as always."Fen is on his way," Dante said. He looked at the drive without touching it. "Nobody opens that until he clears it.""Agreed," Antonio said.I said nothing. I just crossed my arms and waited.Fen arrived in less than twenty minutes. He was young, maybe twenty-five, with quick eyes and a worn laptop bag over one s
He Made Me Sign Away My Daughter Chapter 18
ISABELLAI called Chloe at noon."Get me HR," I said. "I want the head of department in my office in twenty minutes. And pull the personnel files for Derek Obi and Sandra Yee. Just the files. Nothing else yet.""Understood," Chloe said.The head of HR was a woman named Priya. She had been with the company for nine years. She was one of the ones who had survived everything intact, which told me she was either very careful or very clean. Possibly both.She came in at twenty past twelve exactly."Miss Isabella," she said, sitting down across from me."Priya," I said. "I am going to ask you something and I need a straight answer.""Of course," she said."Derek Obi and Sandra Yee," I said. "Were their hiring records ever flagged?"Priya looked at the folder in my hands."They were not processed through the standard panel," she said. "I raised it at the time. I was told the decision had already been made at board level and to process the paperwork.""Who told you that?" I said."Mara," she
He Made Me Sign Away My Daughter Chapter 4
ISABELLA“What do you think you are doing?” Rane said, his voice deep.I smiled slowly. “And what does it look like? Are you shocked? Surprised? Or outsmarted?”"We need to talk," Rane said. His voice was low enough that only I could hear it. "Isabella, now and private."He had reached me before se
He Made Me Sign Away My Daughter Chapter 3
ISABELLAChloe knocked twice before she opened the door."Madam, it's time. We don’t have to be late"I was already at the mirror, clutch in hand. “I need to dress the best tonight.”"You look like you own the place, more like a queen that you are" she said, stepping behind me to fix the clasp. "Wh
He Made Me Sign Away My Daughter Chapter 2
ISABELLASIX YEARS LATER…"You need to eat something," Lucas said from the doorway. "Isabella. I'm serious. You haven't touched anything since yesterday.""I'm still fine.""You said that an hour ago.""Because it was true an hour ago.""Isabella." His voice dropped, not angry. Just firm. "Look at
He Made Me Sign Away My Daughter Chapter 5
ISABELLA"Miss, Are you taking the company away from us?" she asked, and her voice was so small and so serious that I forgot, for a full second, how to stand upright.I turned.She was six years old. White dress, white shoes, two neat braids. She was holding a gift box with both hands the way child
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