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Chapter 157
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Married by Fate, Broken by Love Chapter 166
Aliya's POVThe photograph changed the entire investigation.Until that moment, Sophie's death and Elana's kidnapping felt connected only by suspicion and timing. Now someone was deliberately placing them side by side. The newspaper clipping behind Elana wasn't an accident. It wasn't decoration. It was a message. Whoever had taken that photograph wanted Dylan to see it. More importantly, they wanted him to understand something. The question was whether they were revealing the truth or manipulating us toward the wrong conclusion.The emergency meeting started less than twenty minutes later. Detectives, analysts, and members of the task force gathered around the conference table while enlarged copies of the photograph appeared on multiple screens. Every detail was examined carefully. The office furniture. The walls. The lighting fixtures. The angle of the windows. Even the placement of the newspaper clipping became part of the discussion. Nobody dismissed anything anymore because recent
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Dylan's POVFor a long time after I told Aliya about Sophie, neither of us spoke.The library seemed quieter than usual, as though even the house itself understood the weight of the conversation. Sunlight continued filtering through the windows, illuminating rows of books and antique furniture that suddenly felt very far away. My attention remained fixed on a point somewhere beyond the room because looking directly at Aliya felt impossible right now. Not because I didn't trust her. Because some wounds never became easier to discuss no matter how much time passed. Sophie's name had always been one of them.I hadn't spoken about her in years.Most people in my life knew the simplified version of the story. The public version. The one that appeared in newspaper articles after the accident. A tragic loss. A terrible night. A young woman gone too soon. The details never mattered to outsiders because the outcome remained the same. Sophie died. The family grieved. Life moved forward. At leas
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Aliya's POVI stared at the message for nearly a full minute before I realized I had stopped breathing properly.The words remained on the screen exactly as they had appeared. No explanation. No follow-up. No indication of who sent them. Just a single sentence that somehow felt more unsettling than many of the threats we had received recently. My pulse hammered against my ribs while questions raced through my mind faster than I could process them. Who was Sophie Calloway? Why would someone want me to ask Dylan about her? And most importantly, why did I suddenly have the horrible feeling that I had stumbled onto something deeply personal?Leo's voice pulled me back to reality."Aliya?"I blinked and looked up immediately. He was watching me from across the table with concern written all over his small face. Children noticed far more than adults often gave them credit for. After everything that had happened lately, he had become especially sensitive to changes in people's moods."Are yo
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Dylan's POVThe room went silent after I told everyone Victor was dead.Not shocked silence. Heavy silence. The kind that comes when people realize a situation is worse than they originally believed. Detective Morris stood across from me in the office while several members of the task force exchanged uneasy glances. Nobody needed to ask the obvious question. If Victor had been willing to cooperate before, somebody had just ensured he would never talk again. Which meant whoever was behind this operation was no longer cleaning up loose ends carefully. They were panicking."How was he found?" Morris finally asked.I looked down at the message on my phone again before answering. The report had come directly from the detectives assigned to Victor's surveillance detail. They had been tracking him for hours after obtaining the financial records linking him to Richard. Unfortunately, someone else reached him first."In his apartment," I said quietly.Nobody spoke.I continued anyway."Single
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Aliya's POVI knew something was wrong the moment Dylan walked through the front door the following morning.Not because he looked angry. Anger had become familiar lately. This was different. There was a stillness about him now that unsettled me immediately. The kind of stillness that appeared when someone learned information they couldn't stop thinking about. He moved through the foyer quietly while security personnel spoke with Detective Morris near the entrance, but his attention seemed elsewhere entirely. Like part of him was still standing inside Victor's apartment replaying that final video over and over again.The estate had been awake for hours already despite the early morning. Officers continued coming and going while investigators occupied multiple rooms downstairs. The entire house felt caught between preparation and anticipation. Everyone was waiting for the next breakthrough. The next lead. The next disaster. Living inside that constant uncertainty was exhausting in ways
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Aliya's POV The house felt quieter than it should have after Dylan received the photograph.Not peaceful quiet. The kind of silence that settles before something terrible happens. Everyone knew a move was coming now. The police knew it. Security knew it. Dylan knew it. And judging from the message beneath the photograph, Lydia knew it too. She wanted us to come after her, and somehow that frightened me more than if she had stayed hidden.I found Dylan standing alone on the terrace outside his office nearly an hour later. The rain had finally stopped, leaving the gardens glistening beneath the estate lights while clouds drifted slowly across the night sky. From a distance, the scene looked calm. Beautiful, even. But the man standing at the railing looked anything but calm. His shoulders were tense, his posture rigid, and his attention fixed somewhere far beyond the property. It was the look of someone carrying too much weight for too long.For several seconds, I simply stood there wat
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