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Chapter 170

Author: QuillWhisper
last update publish date: 2026-06-02 23:15:58

[CLIFFHANGER OF RUIN]

"The world offered five billion dollars for my life. The two men who loved me were willing to destroy each other to keep me."

I hadn't slept in thirty-one hours.

Not because I couldn't.

Because every time I closed my eyes, someone tried to kill me.

The five-billion-dollar bounty had transformed the world into a marketplace.

And I was the product.

The helicopter carrying Adrian and me cut through the darkness above the Alps.

Below us stretched endless mountains.

Snow.

Isola
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