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--- --- Chapter 35: Between Subordinates The city below Isla’s penthouse pulsed with restless energy—horns echoing in the distance, headlights carving through the dark like searchlights in a war zone. But inside, all was still. Still, and tight. The kind of silence that doesn’t soothe, but chokes. A silence full of words unsaid. Isla sat curled on the edge of her couch, a blanket wrapped around her shoulders like a fragile shield. In front of her, the coffee table was littered with memories: letters, photos, her mother’s journal. Pieces of a truth she was only now starting to grasp. Her fingers lingered over a faded photograph—her mother, young and smiling, holding a baby. Her. But behind that smile… something unreadable. Something haunted. Across the room, Christopher stood with his back to her, staring out the window. The city lights flickered on his face, casting harsh angles that made him look older, tired—like he’d lived three lives and was still carrying them all on his shoulders. “Why now?” Isla asked, voice soft but heavy. “After all this time, after all the lies… why did you come back?” He turned. Slowly. Carefully. As if every movement cost him something. “I couldn’t stay away,” he said simply. “Not when I knew what was coming.” She scoffed, bitter. “What was coming? You mean the truth? Or just more secrets wrapped in pretty words?” Christopher didn’t answer right away. He crossed the room, kneeling in front of her—not like a man trying to beg, but like someone trying to be eye-level with the pain he helped cause. “I lied because I thought it would protect you,” he said. “Because I thought if I kept the past buried, you’d be free of it.” Isla shook her head, tears threatening but refusing to fall. “You didn’t bury it, Christopher. You planted it. And now everything’s blooming—poison and all.” He looked away, jaw tight. “I deserve that.” Silence stretched between them again, but this time it wasn’t empty. It was full. Full of regret. Full of fear. Full of something neither of them knew how to name. “And Ethan?” she asked, voice raw. “Is he part of this too? Or just another pawn in a game I didn’t know I was playing?” Christopher’s eyes softened. “Ethan’s… real. He’s the one person who never played games. Who’s always had your back. Even when I didn’t.” Isla blinked hard. Her heart felt like it was tearing down the middle. “I don’t know what to believe anymore.” “Then don’t believe me yet,” he said gently. “Just watch. Let me prove I’m still the man who cares for you. Who would fight for you.” His hand brushed hers, tentative and warm. And for a second, just a breath, she didn’t pull away. But then the phone rang. Loud. Jarring. Like a cold hand slapped across her face. Christopher reached for it. One glance at the screen—and all the softness vanished from his features. “Victor Kane,” he said, voice like ice. He answered. “Victor.” Isla stood, her legs shaky, her stomach twisting. The name alone was enough to suck the air from the room. Her mother’s warnings echoed in her mind. Her mother’s fear, her strength, her silence. Victor Kane wasn’t some ghost in the past. He was alive. He was here. And now he knows where to strike. Isla clenched her fists, her pulse hammering in her ears. She wasn’t going to run. Not this time.
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