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The Missing Billions
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2026-07-09 23:09:59
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His Wrong Wife, His Right Obsession Goodbye
Lauren’s POV Silas made it three steps toward the car before his legs buckled."Whoa–" Tommy caught him under one arm before he hit the ground, and that was when I saw it, the dark stain spreading fast across the side of his shirt."Silas." I was already moving. "Silas, look at me.""I'm fine." He wasn't fine. His face had gone pale and his knees were wobbling under him, Tommy practically dragged him the last few feet to the car. "Just winded. Long night.""You've been shot." Julian was right behind me, one hand still pressed to his own bleeding temple, but his eyes had become focused and overly series the second he saw Silas. "Get him in the car. Now."We piled him into the back seat between Julian and me, and the second his back hit the seat he let out a sound I'd never heard him make before, a loud painful groan and his hand went to his side."Drive," I told Tommy. "Drive, drive, drive!""On it." The tires screeched loudly as we drove out of the lot."Talk to me." I peeled his han
His Wrong Wife, His Right Obsession Silas’s Last Stand
Silas's POVNobody notices the man who's supposed to be watching the building.That was the whole trick of it, really. During the run to pull Julian out of Vivian's first trap, Tommy had me watching the building, my eyes were wide open, making sure nobody snuck up on us from behind while Lauren and the others went in. I'd already looked over Vivian's other building two days before, back when I was supposed to be scouting the coastline hiding spot instead. Officially, that's exactly what I was doing. Unofficially, I was learning something else entirely, who came and went, when the guards changed, the gap in the fence nobody had fixed. A dying man makes good use of his time.So when the fighting at the fortress hit its loudest point, when every gun on our side and theirs was pointed at each other and nobody had a spare second to wonder where Silas had gotten to, I slipped away after I told Tommy over the radio I was checking the road behind us for more of Vivian's men. He grunted and f
His Wrong Wife, His Right Obsession Lauren's Rescue
Lauren's POV"Julian." My voice came out sharper than I meant it to. "Julian, what is it? What's wrong?"He didn't answer. He just kept staring at the screen, and cold shivers slid down my spine because I had never – not once, not even when he was tied to a chair for two days – seen him look like that."Give me the phone." I reached for it and he let me take it, which scared me more than anything else could have.'Come and save your wife.'I read it twice. Three times. My brain kept trying to make it make sense and it wouldn't, because I was right here. I was sitting two inches from him with his blood still under my fingernails from working those ropes loose."It's not about me," I said slowly."I know." His jaw was tight enough to crack. "I know it's not about you.""Then who–"He dragged both hands down his face. "Silas!"Silas leaned in from the front seat, already reaching for his own phone. "Boss.""A blocked number and private line. Trace it now.""On it." Silas's thumbs moved f
His Wrong Wife, His Right Obsession Ashes of the Empire
Julian’s POV The gunfire started before I even saw Marco move. One second he was smiling at me like I was already dead, and the next, chaos ripped through the room. My men–Tommy's backup, the ones I didn't even know were in position –came through the side entrance, and Marco's men scattered, screaming, shooting wildly. "Get down!" Silas shoved Lauren behind a stack of crates, his body covering hers. I was still tied to the damn chair, my wrists felt raw and I could feel blood pounding in my ears, and all I could do was watch. Vivian was there. I saw her for half a second, in the doorway behind Marco, her face twisted with anger and disbelief. She hadn't expected this. She hadn't expected me to have men she didn't know about. "Vivian!" I shouted, but my voice cracked from thirst and two days of not saying a word. She didn't even look at me. She grabbed Marco by the collar and screamed something I couldn't hear over the gunfire, and then they were running, the both of them, ducki
His Wrong Wife, His Right Obsession Lauren's Rescue
Lauren's POVWe had been sitting on that rooftop for three hours, and every minute felt longer than the last."You sure this is the place?" I whispered, my knees pressed against the cold concrete.Silas didn't take his eyes off his binoculars. "Tommy's guy checked it an hour ago. Two big containers, six men taking turns walking around, and one van that hasn't moved since noon.""That's not what I asked."He lowered the binoculars just enough to look at me. In the dark, his eyes looked almost black. "I'm sure, Lauren."My hands wouldn't stop shaking. It wasn't the cold. Julian had been gone two days now. Two days of silence. Two days of Vivian sending little messages through burner phones, telling us nothing except that she still had him, that she was still alive, that she was still winning."Positions," Tommy said quietly into his earpiece. He was a big man, built like a wall, but he moved as quiet as a cat when it mattered. "East team is in place. South team is ten seconds out.""And
His Wrong Wife, His Right Obsession The Trap
Vivian's POVI'd been waiting for Julian Cross to come find me for three weeks now, and the fucking arrogant bastard had finally taken the bait.I watched him on the monitor feed from the security room upstairs, watched him stride into the warehouse like he owned the damn thing, two of his men flanking him, guns drawn, their eyes sweeping every shadow like he actually thought he was in control. It was almost sweet. Almost."He's in position," Marco said beside me, his voice low."I can see that." I didn't look away from the screen. "Is the gas line ready?""Ready.""And the men on the east corridor?""In place, ma'am."I smiled. Julian thought this was his hunt. He thought he'd tracked me down through some clever trail of money transaction records his people had pieced together, that he was closing in on me the same way he'd closed in on everyone else who'd ever crossed him. What he didn't know.... what he couldn't know, because I'd made sure of it.... was that I'd let him find this w
His Wrong Wife, His Right Obsession Turn Between Fire and Safety
Lauren’s POV The rain started before I even reached Silas's building.Seattle didn't do light drizzles. It came down hard and heavy, soaking through my jacket before I'd made it half a block from where I'd parked. I'd told Julian I needed air. Just air. He'd looked at me the way he always did lat
His Wrong Wife, His Right Obsession The Test
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO LAUREN’S POV I yanked my shirt up from the floor with shaking hands and glared at Julian through the mess he had made of me. “You disgusting bastard.” He set the gun down on the desk like it was nothing. “I’ve been called worse,” he said. “By people still alive?” Hi
His Wrong Wife, His Right Obsession The Muzzle Between Us
CHAPTER THIRTYLAUREN’S POVThe car ride to Julian’s headquarters felt like a trap closing in slow motion. I sat in the passenger seat of his black SUV, fingers twisting the hem of the black pencil skirt Nancy had laid out for me this morning. Julian hadn’t said much since breakfast, just that one
His Wrong Wife, His Right Obsession The Casino Secret
CHAPTER FOUR LAUREN’S POV When I finally gathered the courage to unlock the bathroom door and step back into the bedroom, it was completely empty. Julian had left. I let out a massive sigh of relief. My shoulders dropped, and my shaking hands finally went still. I crawled into the massive, empty
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