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CHAPTER 66

Author: Shadyside2004
last update Last Updated: 2025-10-11 17:45:19

The metallic echo of boots against the warehouse floor filled the silence.

Elisa’s knees pressed painfully against the cold concrete, her wrists pinned behind her by two officers whose grips were as merciless as iron. The dim bulbs overhead buzzed faintly, casting trembling light over rusted crates and the dusty remnants of forgotten machinery.

Then—he turned.

Leonard.

He was exactly as her nightmares had painted him: tall, immaculate, and impossibly composed. His tailored black coat clung to broad shoulders, and beneath its folds gleamed the faint metallic glint of a pistol holstered at his side. But what truly froze Elisa’s breath was his face—calm, predatory, the same face that had once looked at her with tenderness now carved in a sneer of quiet satisfaction.

He smiled.

“Well,” his voice came, smooth as oil, sliding into her ears with poisonous familiarity. “There you are. My dearest runaway wife.”

Elisa’s body went rigid. Every muscle trembled as she struggled against the officer
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