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"What? Irene?!" Giana leaned closer to the phone.On the screen, Irene was caught mid-sentence, chin lifted and expression sharp with self-importance as she barked out instructions."We took that while she was briefing us. In this line of work, you protect yourself. If something goes wrong, you want a record."The explanation answered the question Giana hadn't managed to finish asking. It did nothing to stop the sinking feeling in her chest.'Irene… Not Rebecca… Irene, the sister I brought on this trip. The one whose travel expenses I paid in full. My youngest sister?!' she thought incredulously."Are you absolutely certain it's her? You're not showing me some random photo to make me suspicious of the wrong person?" Her voice had gone flat.She recognized the outfit in the photo. Irene had been wearing it when they left together that morning. Even so, Giana still did not want to believe it."We're not making anything up. You want proof?"One of the men pulled out a second phone
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Giana's sisters had all said the same thing after Oscar left: he had changed. He was not the person they remembered.Giana had never believed them. A person's nature ran too deep to change that completely. She trusted what she had seen with her own eyes. Thus, it wasn't Oscar.That left Rebecca, the CEO of the Draconia Group, a woman with both the resources and a clear motive. Everything made sense now."It was a young woman, wasn't it? Around 18 years old?" Giana looked at them steadily. "Whatever she paid you, I'll double it. And I want to go down this mountain right now."The men exchanged glances. Surprise flashed across their faces, the kind that came from being caught off guard.Giana grew more certain. "That expression tells me I'm right. Let me make this clear. I'm from the Chamberlain family in Silverton. You don't want to make enemies of us. Take me down, and I'll go straight to whoever sent you. You won't be my problem."She let the rest hang unfinished, just as she ha
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The light faded gradually, and the slap of cards against stone softened as the men's energy ebbed with the day.Giana flexed her fingers, then rolled her arms. Sometime within the last hour, feeling had returned to her body without her even noticing.Relief hit her in a quiet rush. If she could move, then she needed to leave now. She had to get off this strange peak, get these men arrested, and watch them face whatever came after.She started edging sideways off the rock.Five faces turned toward her."Where do you think you're going?"None of them were smiling.In that suspended moment, with five men staring her down on a deserted mountain peak at dusk, Giana's mind latched onto the most irrelevant thing imaginable.She remembered a story she had read years ago about a young couple whose kitchen caught fire because of a gas leak. Together, they managed to put it out. Then the husband did something completely out of place for the situation. She could no longer remember what it
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All Giana could do was watch as they carried her down Kanzeon Summit and started along the trail toward a peak marked on the signs as closed for ecological recovery.'It's over. I'm done for.' She made herself a silent promise. 'If any of these men lay a hand on me, I will spend whatever remains of my life making sure Amara hunts them down. No matter the cost!'That was all her mind had left to hold onto. The rest of her refused to respond.Time passed in blurred fragments while the drug kept her under. Then the men stopped."So guys, how about this place?"They had reached a peak near Kanzeon Summit.Giana tilted her head back and looked up. She could still see the other summit above her, crowded with the small figures of hikers moving along the trail.She should have been up there.She had picked the wrong week to leave the house. She should have stayed at her desk and suffered through her writer's block in peace. At least, that was a problem she could solve. This was somethi
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The air at the top of Kanzeon Summit was clean and cool, exactly what Giana had hoped for. The stiffness in her thoughts had begun to ease, and ideas were moving again.She had just opened her notebook when the group appeared."Hey there, young lady. All by yourself? Come hang out with us for a bit."Giana looked up at the five of them. They wore mismatched clothes in clashing colors that did not fit properly, with fabric bunching and pulling in the wrong places, as though they had hurriedly thrown on someone else's wardrobe.Their expressions were oddly stiff. The one who had spoken delivered the line with a twitching smile, like a nervous amateur accepting a dare.They didn't look dangerous. They looked like ordinary young men who had let themselves get talked into something they didn't want to do."I'm fine on my own, thank you." She turned back to her notebook.The speaker tried again. "Come on, a beautiful woman like you shouldn't be up here alone. We're actually one short
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Irene had been in the wrong first. She could be willful and sharp-tongued, but Amara had raised her well enough for her to recognize right from wrong when it stood plainly in front of her. Thus, she followed.By the time they reached the top, her legs burned. More than once, her gaze drifted to her backpack, tempted to pull out something to eat, but she stopped herself every time. She was being penalized. People serving penalties didn't sit down for snacks.The trail led them to a small peak beside Luminos Summit. From there, she could look up and make out the silhouettes of hikers moving along the summit trail above. Reaching it from there, however, was an entirely different matter. The two peaks appeared close from this angle, but the actual distance between them meant hours of hiking.At the top of the smaller peak stood a visitor services building, or what had once been one. The paint on the outer walls had long since faded, and the entire structure carried the neglected look of
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"There's no bus stop around here," Oscar said, scanning the road."It's only two miles," Rebecca replied lightly. "That's close."Oscar frowned. 'A girl her age, walking alone out of a place like this?'The Percham District, the city's shantytown, housed more than the poor. It drew drifters, loaf
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Diana covered her nose and crouched beside the trash bin. She sifted through the discarded herbal dregs, examining them one handful at a time.With each closer look, her frown deepened. These were common sedative and calming herbs, mild and standard. If something this ordinary could cure Amara's he
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Wasn't Oscar supposed to be the most insignificant man in the Chamberlain family? The one who stayed home, cooked, cleaned, and amounted to nothing?He had been thrown out of the Chamberlain house, yet he had managed to escape Dargan on his own?Amara's headache intensified. Before she could sort
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Rebecca's voice trembled as she fought back tears. "I didn't steal anything! I just met my brother recently! You're the ones lying!"'If my grandparents hear I'm about to be expelled…' She could not even complete the thought.Her defense sounded thin and powerless."Expulsion isn't your only opti
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