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Chapter 101. Pursuit

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* Alex Hamilton *

I didn't move for a beat.

The pendant lay cold in my palm, deceptively small, but it felt like holding a fuse, short, frayed, and already lit. The coordinates burned into the back weren't just numbers. They were a message. A challenge. Claire wanted me to find this. She wanted me angry, chasing, predictable.

But she forgot one thing.

I'm not the man that can easily be broken or controlled.

Outside the estate, the night was thick with smoke and the flicker of containment lights. Calder's men moved in controlled circuits, securing every inch of the property like clockwork. Drones buzzed low overhead, scanning for heat signatures, anomalies, anything unexpected.

Calder met me near the southwest clearing, where Jason had first driven in. His hands were still gloved in tactical leather, arms crossed, face unreadable under the pale light of the moon.

"Report?" he asked.

I held out the pendant. "Coordinates. Jason was a delay, not the destination."

He nodded once, not surpr
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  • Love Lies and Deceit   Chapter 101. Pursuit

    * Alex Hamilton *I didn't move for a beat.The pendant lay cold in my palm, deceptively small, but it felt like holding a fuse, short, frayed, and already lit. The coordinates burned into the back weren't just numbers. They were a message. A challenge. Claire wanted me to find this. She wanted me angry, chasing, predictable.But she forgot one thing.I'm not the man that can easily be broken or controlled.Outside the estate, the night was thick with smoke and the flicker of containment lights. Calder's men moved in controlled circuits, securing every inch of the property like clockwork. Drones buzzed low overhead, scanning for heat signatures, anomalies, anything unexpected.Calder met me near the southwest clearing, where Jason had first driven in. His hands were still gloved in tactical leather, arms crossed, face unreadable under the pale light of the moon."Report?" he asked.I held out the pendant. "Coordinates. Jason was a delay, not the destination."He nodded once, not surpr

  • Love Lies and Deceit   Chapter 100. Alex confronts Jason

    * Alex Hamilton *We breached the estate at 0200.Calder's men moved like clockwork through the vineyards, four strike teams converging with practiced, brutal precision. Each squad punched through a separate entrance in perfect synchronicity, their thermal scopes cutting through the darkness, their weapons trained and unforgiving. The old state groaned under the sudden intrusion of war.Drones hissed above like steel wasps, circling with cold eyes. The vineyard's neat rows, once romantic in their symmetry, had become a hunting ground.I was with Bravo Team, flanking the eastern corridor, the same path Penny had just fled minutes before. I could still feel her heartbeat in my ear, like the aftershock of a blast, panicked, defiant, alive.We had followed Jason's SUV from the highway to the winding service road. He'd gone dark for eleven minutes. Eleven. Long enough for a drop, a meeting, or a plan to unfurl in the shadows. But this wasn't a man fleeing.It was a lure.Jason wanted this

  • Love Lies and Deceit   Chapter 99. A hunt for Claire

    * Alex Hamilton *The next morning, Calder and I sat across from each other in the cold glow of the war room's LED lights. The mood was darker than before, sharper somehow. We had confirmed Jason's movements, he'd resurfaced in Berlin under an alias we'd flagged weeks ago but couldn't pin down until he'd used it to access a dormant offshore account."He's moving money," Calder muttered, scrolling through layers of encrypted wire transfers. "And not just for himself. This has Claire's fingerprints."I leaned in. "How much?""Enough to stage an exfiltration. Or a massacre."I inhaled through my teeth. "She's escalating."Calder nodded grimly. "Which means we push the plan forward.""We leak the 'Zurich sighting'?"He gave a tight nod. "It hits social media in forty minutes. Enough chatter to ignite the whisper networks. After that, we release the altered footage of Penny boarding a private jet, heavily guarded, grainy enough to pass as authentic but not enough for facial reconfirmat

  • Love Lies and Deceit   Chapter 98. Fight for safety

    * Alex Hamilton *By the time we reached the Magnolia estate's lower west wing, Calder's base of operations during high-level alerts, I was vibrating with tension. The wedding ring box in my coat pocket felt heavier than it should, like a weight Claire had tied to my neck and dared me to carry.Calder locked the reinforced door behind us. Thick curtains shut out the midafternoon light. One long table stretched before us, covered in maps, blueprints, laptop screens, and thick files labeled with names I hadn't thought about in years, Claire Morrison, Jason Hamilton, Freya King, and others we hadn't yet identified."Close the curtains. Lock the windows. This stays between us until Lance greenlights dissemination to the full security detail," Calder said, moving already."You think this is a siege," I muttered.He looked at me. "No, Alex. I think this is a hunt."I folded my arms. "Whose idea was it to bring my half-brother into this? Gregory's too busy covering his son's ass."Calder did

  • Love Lies and Deceit   Chapter 97. Postponed wedding date

    * Penny *I had just stepped out of the fitting room when the door to the boutique burst open with a force that didn't match the soft chime above it. The bell jingled daintily, almost absurdly, like it didn't realize the storm that had just swept in.Lance Dankworth.My brother looked like a thundercloud in a tailored coat. Behind him, Calder's presence was sharp as ever, his eyes scanned the boutique as if danger could be hiding behind silk dresses. The rest of the security team fanned out discreetly, blending with the boutique's refined calm like wolves in a rose garden.The saleswoman who'd been crouched at my feet, pinning lace along my hem, paused mid-stitch and quietly stepped back, murmuring something about giving us space.Alex moved beside me, a protective shift in his body like a shield."Lance," he said, voice clipped.Lance's eyes swept the room and landed on us, cold and unwavering. "We're leaving," he announced, each word landing with the weight of a gavel.I blinked. "W

  • Love Lies and Deceit   Chapter 96. Family Ties and Power

    * Alex Hamilton *My half-brother is Mayor Gregory Hamilton, Jason's father and the first person I thought of when it came to tracking him down. We've never been particularly close. The only thing we truly shared was a surname, and even that always felt like a borrowed title, more political currency than familial bond. Lance had once sponsored Gregory's candidacy, pouring in money and influence when the odds were against him. I thought that might still count for something. Maybe not loyalty, but leverage."Mr. Hamilton? The Mayor will see you now," said the secretary in a crisp, almost mechanical voice.I glanced at her nameplate, Charlotte. Neatly etched in silver. She was young, paper-thin, probably fresh out of university with the bright eyes of someone who still believed power could be charming. She smiled at me with an air of practiced professionalism and gestured to the polished oak door beside her desk."Thank you, Charlotte," I nodded, giving her a small smile before stepping

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