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Chapter 54

Author: Dara O.
last update publish date: 2026-08-02 20:42:11

I stared at the message until the words blurred, some cold, unfamiliar dread settling low in my stomach.

"Who sends something like that," I said quietly, more to myself than to Noah. "Not the reporter… different number, different tone entirely. This isn't someone digging for a story. This sounds like someone who already knows something, and wants me to go start a fire they don't have to light themselves."

Noah took the phone from my hand, studying the message with the same careful, assessing fo
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    I stared at the message, my whole body going cold, Noah reading over my shoulder with an expression that had hardened into something I hadn't seen from him before."Everyone finds out together," I repeated slowly. "What does that even mean? Together how?"Noah was already moving, phone in hand, calling Marcus before I'd finished the sentence. "I need eyes on every major outlet, every gossip site, anything connected to the Voss name or Lancaster Corp. Now."I sat frozen on the studio couch, my heart hammering, scrolling frantically through my own feeds with shaking hands, half expecting to see something already live— a headline, a leaked document, some irreversible detonation I couldn't take back. Nothing yet. Just Diana's texts about production timelines, ordinary and blissfully unaware."Nothing's up yet," I said, my voice unsteady. "Maybe it's a bluff. Maybe he's just trying to scare me into doing something reckless.""Maybe," Noah said, though his tone carried little conviction. "O

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    Eleanor called before nine the next morning, her voice tight in a way I hadn't heard from her before, not panicked, but sharpened, the sound of a woman recalibrating quickly around unwelcome news."Noah told me everything," she said, no preamble. "The message, the number, all of it. I want you to know I take this extremely seriously, Jasmine. I should have moved faster on the confirmation weeks ago. I let my own caution create an opening for someone else to exploit.""You couldn't have known someone would try to weaponize it," I said, though her guilt was audible even through the phone, and I found myself wanting to soften it despite everything."Perhaps not. But I've spent four years being careful, and careful has a cost too, apparently." A pause, papers rustling on her end. "I've moved up the timeline on the second test. My investigator is expediting the sample collection today. I want this resolved before whoever sent that message decides silence isn't working in their favor anymor

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    I stared at the message until the words blurred, some cold, unfamiliar dread settling low in my stomach."Who sends something like that," I said quietly, more to myself than to Noah. "Not the reporter… different number, different tone entirely. This isn't someone digging for a story. This sounds like someone who already knows something, and wants me to go start a fire they don't have to light themselves."Noah took the phone from my hand, studying the message with the same careful, assessing focus he gave everything that threatened to spiral out of his control. "This isn't information. It's provocation. Whoever sent this wants a reaction, not a conversation.""But what if it's true?" My voice came out smaller than I meant it to. "What if my mother actually does know something, and someone's just… using it as a weapon instead of telling me honestly?""That's possible." Noah's jaw had tightened, his thumb hovering over the number like he was deciding whether to call it, though something

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    Neither of us slept, despite the exhaustion still sitting heavy in every limb. We showered, changed, drank coffee we barely tasted, and made the drive out to the estate in a silence that felt entirely different from the hopeful quiet of the weekend before, sharper now, edged with something closer to dread than anticipation."Whatever it is," Noah said, somewhere past the halfway point, his hand finding mine over the console, "we handle it together.""I know." I kept my eyes on the passing green, my stomach a tight, anxious knot. "I just thought I'd have more warning. More time to prepare for whichever version of this turns out to be true.""You don't actually need preparation," he said gently. "You just need to survive the next hour. Everything after that, we figure out as it comes."Eleanor met us in the same sitting room as always, and I knew within seconds of seeing her face that whatever I'd braced for on the drive over wasn't quite what was waiting for us. She looked tired, not t

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