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Chapter 2003

Author: Ellis Carter
last update publish date: 2026-07-06 16:49:50

Dylan's POV

The room seemed to shrink around Martha's words, and for the first time since we had found her, genuine fear overtook the calm determination she had carried so well.

She wasn't the kind of person who panicked easily. Every decision she had made while hiding from Margaret's network had been deliberate, patient, and carefully calculated. Seeing that composure crack, even slightly, immediately caught everyone's attention. Aliya crossed the room without hesitation and gently rested both
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    Dylan's POVThe room seemed to shrink around Martha's words, and for the first time since we had found her, genuine fear overtook the calm determination she had carried so well.She wasn't the kind of person who panicked easily. Every decision she had made while hiding from Margaret's network had been deliberate, patient, and carefully calculated. Seeing that composure crack, even slightly, immediately caught everyone's attention. Aliya crossed the room without hesitation and gently rested both hands on Martha's shoulders, silently reminding her that she no longer had to carry frightening memories by herself. The gesture was instinctive, and watching the sisters comfort one another so naturally made me realize how quickly they were making up for decades stolen from them."What did Dad hide there?" Aliya asked softly.Her voice remained calm despite the uncertainty hanging over the room, and I admired the compassion behind the question. She wasn't demanding answers or forcing Martha to

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    Aliya's POVThe words *family estate* echoed in my mind long after Detective Morris finished speaking, refusing to settle into anything that resembled understanding.Every discovery over the past several weeks had led us away from the house where I grew up, yet somehow every answer seemed determined to circle back there. I thought about the photographs hidden inside Margaret's safe house, the journal my father had left behind, and the countless warnings scattered throughout his letters. None of them had ever suggested that the final confrontation would happen in the place where my happiest childhood memories still lived. That realization unsettled me more than I wanted to admit because home had always represented safety to me. The idea that someone intended to turn it into the setting for one last betrayal felt deeply personal.Detective Morris wasted no time organizing his team once we stepped out of the interview room.Orders were issued calmly but efficiently as investigators moved

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    Dylan's POV The atmosphere inside the interview room shifted the instant Detective Morris ended the call, and the weight of his expression told me the discovery at Margaret Sinclair's safe house was more than another routine breakthrough. Investigators who had spent months untangling her web of lies rarely reacted with visible emotion, yet Morris looked genuinely unsettled as he slipped his phone back into his pocket. Arthur Bennett lowered his head, almost as though he had expected this moment to arrive eventually, while Aliya continued holding her father's letter against the table with trembling fingers. The room suddenly felt smaller than it had only a few minutes earlier, as though the walls themselves were closing around the truth we had spent so long pursuing. I instinctively reached for Aliya's hand beneath the table again, silently reminding her that she would not have to face whatever came next alone."What did they find?" I asked, breaking the silence before it grew unbeara

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