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Chapter 156: The Dead End

Auteur: Leah Al
last update Date de publication: 2026-05-11 23:43:47

*Aria’s POV*

The hunt for Carlo began before the sun breached the horizon.

Lucian didn't sleep. He sat in the command center of the mountain house, surrounded by the hum of servers and the glow of monitors, coordinating a manhunt from the isolation of the peak.

"Pull his financials," Lucian ordered into the secure line. "Trace his cell phone pings from the last forty-eight hours. I want to know where he slept, what he ate, and who he spoke to."

"We're on it, Boss," Rylan’s voice crackled back.
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  • His Runaway Queen   Chapter 156: The Dead End

    *Aria’s POV*The hunt for Carlo began before the sun breached the horizon.Lucian didn't sleep. He sat in the command center of the mountain house, surrounded by the hum of servers and the glow of monitors, coordinating a manhunt from the isolation of the peak."Pull his financials," Lucian ordered into the secure line. "Trace his cell phone pings from the last forty-eight hours. I want to know where he slept, what he ate, and who he spoke to.""We're on it, Boss," Rylan’s voice crackled back. "We're checking his apartment in the city now."My knuckles were white as I gripped the edge of the console. The voice — Carlo's voice — echoed in his head. You have no idea what I'm capable of.It made sense. Carlo had been his shadow for five years. He knew the schedules, the routes, the security codes. He had access to the penthouse. He knew about the mountain. He fit the profile perfectly."Lucian," I said softly, placing a hand on his back. "You need to eat something.""I can't.""Adrian is

  • His Runaway Queen   Chapter 155: The Voice In The Static

    *Aria’s POV*The blizzard outside was a wall of white, erasing the world. It isolated us, cutting the mountain off from the valley below. The wind screamed against the steel frame of the house, a constant, mournful howl that set my nerves on edge.Inside, the command center was the only room that felt finished. Banks of monitors glowed in the dim light, displaying the perimeter cameras — useless white static — and the internal feeds.Lucian sat in the center of the room, a glass of whiskey untouched on the console. He was staring at a single screen that displayed the live feed from the main gate."Do you think they'll come?" I asked, standing behind him."Not tonight," Lucian said. "The roads are buried. Even Zero Day can't drive through six feet of snow.""Then why are you watching?""Because I can't sleep."I walked over and placed my hand on his shoulder. He leaned into the touch, his muscles tight as coiled springs.Suddenly, the monitors flickered.It wasn't a glitch. It was a ta

  • His Runaway Queen   Chapter 154: The Exodus

    *Aria’s POV*The cleanup didn't take long. In our world, messes were disposed of with alarming efficiency.By dawn, the bodies of the Zero Day operatives were gone. The blood on the marble floor had been scrubbed until the surface gleamed, giving no indication that ten men had died there only hours ago. But the smell lingered — copper and cordite, soaked into the pores of the stone.Lucian stood in the center of the living room, issuing orders into a sat-phone. He hadn't slept. His shirt was crisp, his mask of control firmly in place, but his eyes were hollow."Burn the secondary properties," Lucian ordered. "Liquidate the offshore accounts flagged by Damian’s trace. I want us off the grid by noon.""You're collapsing the network?" Rylan asked, stunned."I'm pruning the dead branches," Lucian corrected. "If Zero Day wants to hack us, I’m giving them a closed system. No internet. No digital footprint."He turned to me."Pack warm. We leave in an hour.""The mountain?" I asked, clutchin

  • His Runaway Queen   Chapter 153: Zero Day

    *Aria’s POV*The basement of the penthouse was a place where screams went to die. It was soundproofed, cold, and smelled of bleach and old copper.Lucian walked down the concrete stairs, his footsteps heavy in the silence. He had changed his shirt, but the blood on his hands felt permanent.I followed close behind, my injured arm throbbing with every step. I had insisted on coming. I needed to see the face of the man who had tried to bury us.Rylan was already down there. He stood by a heavy steel table where Silas was strapped down. The old man was awake now, the sedatives worn off. He looked terrible—battered, bruised, and pale, but his eyes were bright with a manic, hateful light."Ah," Silas rasped, his voice echoing in the small room. "The King and his Queen. Come to gloat?"Lucian didn't speak. He walked to the table and placed a heavy .45 caliber pistol on the metal surface, the metal clanging loudly."I'm not here to gloat," Lucian said. "I'm here for the name."Silas laughed,

  • His Runaway Queen   Chapter 152: The Patriarch

    *Aria's POV*I watched the grainy monitor in the panic room, my breath fogging the glass of the gas mask. The green haze in the penthouse was slowly dissipating, sucked out by the emergency ventilation system Damian had activated.On the screen, Rylan was zip-tying Silas’s wrists. The old monster was limp, unconscious, a bag of bones and malice on the expensive rug.But Lucian wasn't there. He was running."I see him," Rylan said, his voice tight in my ear. "He's in the stairwell. He’s heading for the garage.""Is Adrian... is he really with Victor?""The nanny isn't answering her comms," Rylan said grimly. "She's in the garage."I gripped the edge of the console. "I'm going down there.""Aria, your arm–""My son is down there."I ripped the mask off, the air tasting of bitter almonds and stale fear. I grabbed the spare pistol Rylan had left on the counter."Open the door."Rylan hesitated, then hit the release. The heavy steel slid back.I ran.---------------------------------------

  • His Runaway Queen   Chapter 151: The Antidote

    *3RD POV*The rain in Geneva was a cold, relentless drizzle that turned the streets into mirrors of wet asphalt. Rylan crouched on the rooftop of the building opposite the Aethelgard office block, the water dripping from the brim of his cap.He adjusted the earpiece. "I'm in position. I have eyes on the server room window. Third floor."Lucian’s voice came through the comms, sharp and static-filled. "We're live on this end. Damian is ready."Rylan looked down at the device in his hand. It looked harmless – a simple black drive with a single LED light. But inside it was the 'Antidote' – a polymorphic virus Damian had written in three hours of feverish concentration. It was designed to hunt the corrupted fractal code, latch onto its unique signature, and burn it from the inside out."Thermal shows two guards inside," Rylan whispered. "I'm going in."He didn't wait for confirmation. He rappelled down the building, swinging through the open window of the server room.The two guards were p

  • His Runaway Queen   Chapter 38: The cage with silk walls

    *Aria’s POV*It has been 3 days since I was taken from my son. From Lucian’s mansion. I was kept in an abandoned cottage.When we arrived to my family’s estate, the first thing I smelled was jasmine.Not the artificial kind sprayed into palace halls to disguise blood and money—but real jasmine. Fre

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  • His Runaway Queen   Chapter 37: The things he cannot hold

    *Lucian’s POV*Adrian wouldn’t stop shaking.He sat on the edge of the bed with his small hands clenched in the blanket, eyes too big for his face, breathing shallow like the air itself had betrayed him. The room smelled like lavender and fear. One of the guards had cleaned the blood from the corri

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  • His Runaway Queen   Chapter 34: The sound that shattered glass

    *Aria's POV*The scream tore through the mansion like a blade across crystal.It was a female's scream, high and uncontrolled. For a heartbeat no one moved. I was the only one who ran inside. Then everyone else did. Conversations collapsed into gasps. Glasses slipped from manicured fingers and s

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  • His Runaway Queen   Chapter 33: The Gala of glass and gold

    *Aria's POV* (Back to the present)The mansion did not prepare for a gala. It transformed. Chrystal chandeliers bloomed overhead like frozen fire. Marble floors were polished until they reflected a thousand versions of myself - none of them quite real. Men in tailored black moved like shadows with

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