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Chapter 41: Counting Down.

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Aurora's POV

"You are literally glowing," Kevin said, squinting at me from across the table.

"Shut up." I threw a balled-up napkin at him.

He caught it and laughed. Kevin Adler was sharp, lanky, and the only person in my class who didn't bore me to tears. We bonded over a history assignment three weeks ago and he somehow never left. He wasn't trying to kiss me or impress me. He was just there. Easy.

I picked up my pen and dragged it across the notepad in front of me. Pretending to study. I wasn
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  • His Dirty Little Niece: (Uncle X, I want you)   CHAPTER 152 — THOMAS REED.

    AURORA’S POV “Thomas Reed wasn't just Xavier's driver,” Steve said, placing the thick folder on the table between us as I studied the photograph of Thomas standing beside Carter Mills Senior and the fifth founder. “He had access to executive schedules, private meetings, financial documents, and sensitive company movements. Someone could have used him to move information without anyone realizing how much he actually knew,” he explained, opening another file. I pulled the first document toward me and read through Thomas's employment history. He had started working for Xavier during the earliest years of Griffins Enterprises and gradually became far more than a driver. He transported confidential documents, delivered messages between executives, attended private meetings, and knew where important people were going long before those movements appeared in official records. “That would have made him useful to someone inside the organization,” I said, running my finger along an access rec

  • His Dirty Little Niece: (Uncle X, I want you)   CHAPTER 151 — XAVIER’S CAR.

    XAVIER’S POV Harold's confession stayed with me long after the meeting ended, especially the part about my car being at Ashford Hill the night before Daniel died. I had spent fourteen years believing that night had nothing to do with me beyond the grief that followed it, but now a vehicle registered under my name had placed me directly at the center of something I had never known existed. When I returned to the investigation room, I immediately pulled up the old vehicle records myself, refusing to accept Harold's statement until I had seen the evidence with my own eyes. “Run the registration against every vehicle record from that week, including private transportation logs and maintenance records,” I instructed Steve, standing behind him as he opened the archived database. “I want the exact vehicle, its location, its assigned driver, and every person who had access to it before and after the Ashford Hill meeting,” I added, keeping my voice controlled despite the uneasiness building

  • His Dirty Little Niece: (Uncle X, I want you)   CHAPTER 150 — HAROLD’S CONFESSION.

    HAROLD’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

  • His Dirty Little Niece: (Uncle X, I want you)   CHAPTER 149 — SOMEONE DANIEL TRUSTED.

    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

  • His Dirty Little Niece: (Uncle X, I want you)   CHAPTER 148 — THE OFFICER.

    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

  • His Dirty Little Niece: (Uncle X, I want you)   CHAPTER 147 — THE SAFE HOUSE.

    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

  • His Dirty Little Niece: (Uncle X, I want you)   Chapter 2: He is Here.

    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,

  • His Dirty Little Niece: (Uncle X, I want you)   Chapter 1: She is Waiting.

    Aurora's POV Seven days left, I ticked my calendar, counting down to my sweetheart's return. I know it's wrong to call him that, but I can't help myself. He is my sweetheart. It's been a year and seven months, I was dying to see him again. I still can't believe he left for so long, does he not

  • His Dirty Little Niece: (Uncle X, I want you)   Chapter 54: Finals.

    Aurora's POV "I cannot believe you are actually studying right now," Marinette said from across the table, chin resting in her palm, watching me with the expression of someone observing a phenomenon they couldn't quite explain. "Finals are in four days, Marinette." "You were kidnapped six days a

  • His Dirty Little Niece: (Uncle X, I want you)   Chapter 8: His Response.

    Aurora's POVI met Uncle X standing at the front of the door with a stoic look on his face. His hands rested in his pocket and his muscular frame leaned on the door post. It seemed like I had gotten myself into trouble.“What did you do at the mall?” He asked, not letting me walk in.“I bought new

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