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CHAPTER 9

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The applause still thundered like an avalanche around her as the last frame of the presentation faded from the screen.

Althea kept her posture relaxed, her breathing even. The stage lights washed over her white coat, giving her the illusion of floating, untouchable, ethereal, a figure carved from calm brilliance.

The world saw perfection.

She saw a cage of memories rattling violently at the edges.

“Dr. Johnson! Congratulations!”

Her colleagues swarmed her, faces bright with admiration.

They wer
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  • His Dead Wife: No Longer the Surrogate Bride   CHAPTER 124

    Inside the lower study, the room filled quickly.The long table that had once served as Alessandro’s quiet planning space is again alive again. Maps are lit, screens, and the presence of men who had not stood together in the same room for years.Dominic stood at the head.Antonio to his right.Roberto beside him.Across the table, Ulysees, Enzo and now Vincent.The air carried weight and purpose.Dominic wasted no time. “Luca took one of our medical relays.” He started, voice steady but edged with controlled fury. “Staff alive. No casualties reported. He wants leverage. They’re my wife’s people and we must get them back.”There was no hesitation in the room.Vincent nodded once.“We will.”Roberto leaned forward, both hands on the table as he studied the layered map projected in front of them. He studied the roads, elevation, abandoned compounds, rural checkpoints, satellite overlays.“We need the holding point.” He announced.“Your uncle for sure will not use his main compound.” Ulys

  • His Dead Wife: No Longer the Surrogate Bride   CHAPTER 123

    The night inside Blackstone sharpened after the safehouse went dark.The estate seemed to draw a breath and hold it. Althea had noticed that every corridor became more alert, all lights are deliberate. The guards are moving with that heightened awareness that comes when a threat has stepped closer than comfort allows.Dominic stood in the central operations room, the darkened feed from the compromised relay still etched in his mind even after he had shut the screen off.Althea called it a night and told Dominic that she will be staying with Nicholas.“I’ll stay with Nicholas tonight.” She said in a low voice as she squeezed his hand gently. “If you can, please get some rest as well. You need it to clear your mind, Dom.”“I will.” He assured as he looked down at her carefully. He turned towards the others for a while and gave them a nod before ushering Althea out, accompanying her to Nico’s room. “Now, I want you to do the same thing, Thea. Get some rest.”Althea halted by his side.“I

  • His Dead Wife: No Longer the Surrogate Bride   CHAPTER 122

    The third move came that night that was silent, surgical, and far more intimate than any strike before.At exactly 2:17 a.m., one of Blackstone’s external safehouses, discreetly repurposed as a medical relay station under Althea’s oversight, went dark.There was no explosion or any gunfire.No screams echoing through the comms.Only silence.By the time the first response unit breached the perimeter, the facility was already stripped of life. Medical carts were abandoned mid-use, half-filled syringe lay on the floor while tablets showing charts were blinking in idle mode.But the facility is empty.Every doctor.Every nurse.Every orderly.Gone. Taken. Alive.And left behind, mounted neatly on the central station wall, was a single message burned into the digital monitor. “You built a sanctuary. I turned it into a cage.”*Dominic stood in the operations room, shoulders rigid, eyes locked on the surveillance playback loop. Beside him stood Althea, who is pale, still, but upright.Comp

  • His Dead Wife: No Longer the Surrogate Bride   CHAPTER 121

    The empire that Luca Valtieri inherited did not rise on noise.It rose on silence, on patience and on moves that no one saw until the results had already taken hold. It was built by Don Pietro Valtieri and one thing he had passed down to them is to have pieces to move that only one knows existed.And while Dominic gathered strength at Blackstone and Alessandro’s old network began to reawaken, Luca sat at the center of his own machine and began to move the pieces no one else even knew existed.The private war room beneath Luca’s compound glowed with a low, controlled light.Luca stood at the head of the central table and watched the rows of screens showed live feeds, financial dashboards, shipping routes, offshore accounts, and surveillance nodes that stretched across cities, ports, and borders. Nothing in Luca’s world was left unmeasured.Vittorio entered first, followed by Pablo Murdoch and two other senior advisors. A few seconds later, Aurelio walked in, the bruise on his jaw darke

  • His Dead Wife: No Longer the Surrogate Bride   CHAPTER 120

    The night air over Blackstone carried a tension that hummed beneath the surface. It was quiet, coiled, waiting. Even with the hour pushing deep into night, the estate did not dim.Lights still burned in the lower halls, across the courtyard, along the perimeter walls. Every beam of illumination was intentional, every shadow watched.Dominic stood in the lower study long after the others had gone. He went up a few hours ago to read Nicholas his book, said good night and watched until he had fallen asleep.The dim glow of the desk lamp cut across the sharp angles of his face, leaving his eyes in shadow. The footage had already been watched, analyzed, memorized. Every frame of it lived now in his mind. He studied the angle of the car, the timing of the interception, the posture of the man who stepped out.Roberto Douglas.He appeared not by coincidence or chance.It’s a declaration.His father’s reach had not only endured but had been reawakened.And with it, the war Dominic had held at

  • His Dead Wife: No Longer the Surrogate Bride   CHAPTER 119

    Dominic is already standing at the foot of the entrance steps when the gates of Blackstone opened without delay and the SUV passed through the inner drive.His expression is controlled but the tension in his shoulders betrayed the speed at which he had moved the moment the alert came through.The vehicle came to a smooth stop. Before the engine had even fully idled, Dominic was already descending the steps, his hand reaching out when the rear door opened.Althea stepped out.For a fraction of a second, everything else faded around him. The guards, the stone walls, the comms chatter fading into background noise.Dominic’s eyes moved over her quickly. He looked at her face, hands, posture and her breathing. Through it all, Althea remained calm.She met his gaze calmly.“I’m alright, Dom.” She assured softly, as if she already knew what he was looking for.Dominic exhaled once.He stepped forward and reached for her. His one hand coming to her arm, then her shoulder, grounding himself in

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