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CHAPTER THIRTY THREE The Line You Don't Cross Twice

ผู้เขียน: Stacy R. Simmons
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Lucian didn’t move immediately after the call ended.

The silence that followed wasn’t empty—it carried weight, like something had settled into place without asking for permission.

The phone rested on the table between them, its screen dark again, as if nothing had happened.

But everything had.

Elena watched him closely.

Not just his expression—because that remained controlled—but the stillness in him. The way his focus sharpened rather than fractured.

He wasn’t reacting.

He was recalibrating.

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    Richard did not sit down.He remained beside the table, staring at the screen as though the handwriting might change if he looked at it long enough.It didn't.Evelyn's handwriting.Elena knew it too.There were certain things you remembered without trying. The shape of a person's signature. The way they crossed a letter. The impatient slant of a sentence when they were writing quickly.Her mother's handwriting had always leaned slightly forward.This did too.Elena swallowed."Why would Mom write beside that name?"Richard didn't answer."Dad."He finally looked at her."I don't know."She searched his face.It was not the face of a man hiding an answer.It was the face of a man who had just discovered that a part of his past had been living somewhere beyond his reach.Anton pulled the document closer."Let's start with what we know."Nora gave him a look."That's usually your way of telling everyone to stop guessing.""It would be useful right now."He pointed to the page."We have

  • Married To The Devil I Betrayed   CHAPTER 146 The Fourth Name

    For several seconds, nobody spoke.The message remained on Lucian's phone.You were never supposed to find the fourth name.Elena read it twice.Then she looked at Lucian."How did they know?"Lucian locked his phone."Because someone is watching."Nora was already moving toward the computer."Or because someone has access to the records we're looking at."Anton followed her."Either way, we need to know how they got into your account."Lucian slipped the phone into his pocket."And we need to stop assuming every move they make is an attack."Elena looked at him."What else would it be?""A warning."Anton frowned."From the same person who used your credentials?""We don't know that yet."Nora glanced over her shoulder."Give me five minutes."Lucian nodded.Nora pulled up the access logs.The room fell silent again as lines of data appeared across the screen.She moved through them quickly.Then stopped."This isn't right."Anton came closer."What?""The login."She pointed to the

  • Married To The Devil I Betrayed   CHAPTER 145 The Merger That Never Happened

    The room had gone quiet.Not the comfortable kind of quiet.The kind that came when everyone was staring at the same piece of paper and realizing it had just changed the meaning of everything they thought they knew.The authorization lay on the table between them.Daniel Mercer's name was printed near the bottom.The approval field was blank.Yet the document had been accepted as valid.And in the corner, almost hidden beneath the faded stamp, were two letters.H.B.Richard had already told them what they meant.Hart Biotech.Elena couldn't take her eyes off them."My father said those documents were withdrawn," she said.Anton looked up from the authorization."Your father was told they were withdrawn."Richard's jaw tightened."There's a difference."Nora was already moving.She pulled another folder from the cabinet and placed it beside the authorization."This is the original Moretti-Hart merger file."Lucian stepped closer."I thought the archive was incomplete.""It is."Nora op

  • Married To The Devil I Betrayed   CHAPTER 144 The Authorization

    By the time they left the hospital, the rain had stopped.But nobody seemed to notice.Lucian walked ahead with Nora beside him, both of them speaking quietly. Anton followed with Richard and Evelyn, while Elena stayed near the back with Nina.Victor Hale was gone.He had left without another explanation.That bothered Lucian more than if he had stayed.Nora noticed.“You're thinking about Victor.”Lucian glanced at her.“I don't trust the timing.”“You never did.”“No.”Nora opened the folder in her hands.“Then don't start now.”Lucian almost smiled.It disappeared when he looked at the document inside the folder.Daniel's authorization.“Get Anton to the office.”“He's already on his way.”Lucian looked at her.“You called him?”“I called him while you were talking to Victor.”He nodded.“Good.”Nora's eyes dropped to the paper.“Do you think Richard knows whose signature that is?”“He reacted before he could hide it.”“So he does.”“Apparently.”Nora was quiet for a moment.“That'

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    The monitor finally settled.The nurse checked Daniel's pulse, adjusted the line in his arm, and asked Evelyn to step outside.She did.The moment the door closed, Lucian was beside her.“What did he mean?”Evelyn looked at the photograph in her hand.“I don't know.”“He was looking at that.”“I know.”Lucian took the photograph.For several seconds, he studied the image without speaking.The people gathered around the table were familiar.Some were Moretti executives.Some were men Lucian remembered from old board meetings.And there was Daniel, younger and almost hidden at the edge of the frame.The circled face stood among them.Lucian frowned.“The picture is real.”Evelyn looked at him.“How do you know?”“Because I've seen it before.”Nina turned from the files.“Where?”“In the old records.”“That doesn't prove anything.”“No.”Lucian turned the photograph over.There was nothing on the back.No date.No location.No photographer.Nothing.“That,” he said, “is what bothers me.”

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    Evelyn stared at the photograph.She had seen that face before.Not recently.Not in a dream or a memory distorted by years.In the corridors of Moretti Industries.Behind a computer screen.In the background of meetings where nobody paid much attention to the quiet man taking notes.Her lips parted.“Daniel Mercer.”Elena looked at her.“You know him?”Evelyn didn't answer immediately.Lucian did.“I know the name.”His voice had changed.Nina looked up from the papers spread across the table.“From where?”Lucian picked up the photograph.“Moretti Industries.”Richard's eyes narrowed.“What did he do?”“IT.”Lucian studied the circled face.“He handled internal systems. Access permissions. Data management. A lot of things people never thought about until something disappeared.”Elena watched him.“You remember him?”“I remember the morning he vanished.”The room went quiet.Lucian lowered the photograph.“I'd started asking questions about some files. Nothing dramatic at first. A fe

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    By morning, I was trending.I didn’t have to open social media to know it. My phone wouldn’t stop vibrating on the kitchen counter of the small apartment I’d fled to after leaving the hotel at dawn.I hadn’t slept.I had changed out of my wedding dress in a gas station restroom forty minutes outsid

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