MasukHAROLD’S POV I had spent fourteen years convincing myself that silence was the only way to survive, but sitting across from Aurora now, I realized I had only been lying to myself. Silence had not saved me. It had simply given me fourteen years to remember every warning I could have given Daniel and every reason I had chosen not to. I looked at Aurora and saw the little girl I had once watched running through her father's house, completely unaware that the people around her were already deciding how much of her future they were willing to destroy. “You need to understand something before I tell you anything else,” I said quietly, clasping my hands together on the table as I forced myself to meet her eyes. “I knew Daniel was in danger before the accident happened, and I could have warned him. I should have warned him, but I was afraid of what would happen to my family if I did,” I admitted, feeling the shame I had carried for fourteen years settle heavily inside my chest. Aurora didn
AURORA’S POV Cole's final words followed me long after the meeting ended. I kept hearing them in my head as I sat in the secure records room with Daniel's old files spread across the table. The worst part is that Daniel trusted that person completely. It wasn't enough to know that someone close to my father had betrayed him. I needed to understand what kind of person could earn Daniel's trust deeply enough to get close to him, learn what he knew, and then use that trust against him. I pulled every record covering the final months of Daniel's life and began building a list of the people who appeared most often around him. Xavier's name was there, along with Madam Lucy, Arthur Bell, Carter Mills Senior, Victor Langston, and several of the company's earliest executives. Some were business partners, some were advisers, and others had been part of Daniel's personal circle for years. The deeper I went, the more complicated everything became because none of them looked suspicious on the su
XAVIER’S POV The farmhouse cameras had gone dark, but the image of that figure walking straight toward Elias's hidden room remained fixed in my mind as I returned to the original accident reports. I had learned a long time ago that when an investigation became complicated, the answer was often buried inside something everyone had already read. The original reports were spread across the secure table in front of me, and I went through them again, comparing signatures, timestamps, officer assignments, evidence logs, and every handwritten correction that had been made fourteen years ago. I stopped when I saw the same name appearing in report after report. Richard Cole. His signature was on the initial accident report, the scene assessment, the evidence transfer sheet, and the mechanical inspection. His name appeared again beside the recommendation that Daniel Hayes's death be classified as an accident. I pulled up the personnel records and found that Cole had been a detective at the ti
AURORA’S POV The moment Steve told me someone else had accessed Elias Grant’s transaction record, I knew we were running out of time. The farmhouse connected to the transfer was still several miles away, but whoever had been watching Elias had already started moving. Xavier stood beside me in the secure facility, studying the location Steve had sent while I stared at the satellite image on the main screen. After everything we had uncovered that day, the thought of reaching Elias felt dangerously close to becoming a reality. “We’re staying here,” Xavier said firmly, turning toward me as Steve gathered the investigation files from the table. “Steve and the law enforcement team will search the farmhouse first, and you’ll stay on the secure line with us until we know exactly what we’re dealing with,” he added, his expression making it clear that he wasn't asking for my agreement. “I should be there because this concerns my parents,” I argued, stepping closer to him as frustration rose
STEVE’S POV The moment Aurora demanded that we search every surviving record connected to the investor, I knew we were no longer dealing with a simple witness disappearance. The photograph had given us a vehicle, the vehicle had given us a company, and the company had given us a connection to someone who had been close to Griffins Enterprises from its earliest days. I stayed behind after Aurora and Xavier left the room, staring at the old corporate records on my screen while the investigators continued pulling information from every database they could access. I started with the dissolved company itself, tracing its transportation expenses, insurance records, vehicle registrations, and maintenance contracts. Most of the information had been deliberately cleaned up over the years, but one private transportation service kept appearing in the old financial statements. The service had provided drivers and vehicles to wealthy businessmen who preferred not to keep official company cars in
AURORA’S POV The secure line connected before I had even finished reading the message Steve had sent. Xavier was already beside me when Steve’s face appeared on the screen, his expression unusually serious. I knew from the moment I saw him that this was not another old document or forgotten name. Something had changed. Something that had been buried for fourteen years had finally started breathing again. Steve looked between us before speaking. “The witness is alive.” For a moment, I simply stared at him. The words did not fit with everything I had spent years believing. My parents had died fourteen years ago, and every investigation since then had treated the case as something that could never be fully solved because the most important people involved were either dead, missing, or too frightened to speak. Yet now Steve was telling me that someone who had tried to come forward days after my father’s death had survived all these years. I looked at Xavier, expecting him to react, but
Aurora's POVI wanted to follow my plans according to what I jotted down last night, but I couldn't. I saw a beautiful opportunity to jump to number 2, which says ‘seduce Uncle X’, and that's what I am about to do. Diana wasn't home, this was my trump card.I passed by his room, and I caught him si
Aurora's POV I didn't think these two naughty girls were being serious until they appeared at my house. They came here mainly for the purpose of seeing Uncle X. They went crazy after sighting him on school grounds earlier, and being the naughty girls they were, they came to see him personally.
>>> Present Xavier’s POV Damn! I watched as her receding figure faded from my presence, she was still the emotional little girl I used to know… Little? No! She isn't so little anymore. When she hugged me earlier at the airport, I felt those firm, round, juicy boobs of hers pressed onto my chest
Aurora's POV ‘I am at the airport’ His text came through my phone as I walked out of my school’s building. “Take me to the airport,” I told the chauffeur who was already waiting for me. My drive to the airport was ecstatic, my mind filled with joy. My sweetheart was finally back. The trees,







