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UNDER THE SAME ROOF
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2026-09-19 10:44:54
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Only Her Touch A NAME NOBODY EXPECTED
"Renata Cruz," Carla said again, slower this time, as though repeating it might make the answer feel less strange. "The trust was opened five years ago. Quiet, small deposits at first, growing steadily since. Whoever set it up made certain it stayed completely separate from every other account we've traced. No connection to Meridian Crown, no connection to the family estate. Just a private fund, sitting untouched, waiting."Alicia sat very still, turning the news over carefully. "Ignacio did this?""Cross confirmed it," Carla said. "Ignacio set it up personally, years before any of this began unraveling. He never told anyone. Cross only knew because he was the one asked to manage the paperwork discreetly."Roberto frowned. "Why would he do that? He'd already given Renata a settlement through the lawyers, the one meant to buy her silence.""Maybe the settlement was never truly about silence," Alicia said slowly, something in her chest shifting as she said it. "Maybe some part of him un
Only Her Touch UNDER THE SAME ROOF
Fear moves fast when it finally has a real place to go. Alicia felt it carry her straight from the kitchen chair into the back of a car, Roberto's hand locked tight around hers, before her mind had even finished catching up to what Priya had just told them."How is that possible?" Roberto asked, his voice tight as the car pulled away. "Security cleared everyone entering that building. Cross's face isn't unknown anymore. We circulated his photograph days ago.""A face can be changed with the right patience," Priya said grimly, working her phone even as the car sped through empty streets. "Facial hair, glasses, a uniform nobody looks at twice. I've already alerted the facility's own security team and requested full lockdown until we arrive."Alicia stared out the window, watching the city blur past in streaks of pale morning light, and felt something strange settle over her fear. Ignacio had spent thirty two years being the danger in every room he entered. Now, for the first time in her
Only Her Touch THE VOICE ON THE OTHER END
Alicia stared at the number glowing on Priya's screen and felt something inside her shift from fear into something colder, sharper, and far more deliberate."I want to call it," she said.Roberto's head turned sharply toward her. "No darling, yo should’nt.""Roberto." She kept her voice steady, though her heart was already pounding at the thought of it. "He's spent weeks controlling every conversation between us through messages, through threats delivered secondhand, through Marcus's frightened mouth instead of his own voice. I want to hear him say whatever he's willing to say directly to me. I want him to understand I'm not hiding from him anymore.""That's exactly what worries me," Roberto said, fear sharpening every word. "You're handing him a live connection to your voice, your location, everything he's been trying to reach for weeks."Alicia reached for his hand, holding it firmly despite the tremor she couldn't quite hide. "I understand your fear. I feel it too, Roberto, more th
Only Her Touch THE LONGEST TEN MINUTES OF HER LIFE
Alicia's whole body went cold the moment Priya said the word ‘closing’."Put him on speaker," she said, already crossing the room, her heart hammering so violently she could feel it in her throat. "I need to hear this."Priya complied instantly, the driver's voice crackling through, tense but controlled, the particular calm of a man trained specifically for exactly this kind of moment. "The vehicle's gaining fast. I'm taking the next turn early, to see if it follows the same pattern or breaks off."Alicia gripped the edge of the table, every second stretching unbearably long, Doris's hand finding her shoulder, steady and grounding despite the fear surely running just as sharp through her own chest."It's still with us," the driver said, tighter now. "Mr. Alvarez, stay down."Alicia heard Roberto's voice, faint but audible, steady despite everything. "I'm fine. Do what you need to do."The next several seconds passed in a blur of clipped, urgent instructions, the driver calling out tur
Only Her Touch WHAT FEAR CANNOT BE ALLOWED TO DECIDE
The words on the screen felt like fingers pressed directly against Alicia's throat, and for one long, suffocating moment, she simply could not make herself breathe properly: ‘Close enough to watch every part of tonight's conversation unfold from a distance you never once thought to check.’"He's not outside," she said finally, forcing the words out through the fear clawing up her chest. "Priya swept the entire perimeter twice. He means something else. He means he heard us."Doris went very still beside her, understanding dawning with the same cold, sickening clarity Alicia felt settling over her own skin. "A device. Somewhere inside."Priya was already moving, calling her team back inside with sharp, urgent instructions, and Alicia stood frozen in the small living room, replaying every word she'd spoken since arriving, every fear she'd confessed, every private, unguarded moment she'd believed belonged only to the people she trusted in that room. The thought of a stranger listening to
Only Her Touch THE COST OF NOT KNOWING WHO TO TRUST
Alicia read the message a fourth time, a fifth, until the words stopped making sense as language and started feeling instead like something physical lodged behind her ribs, sharp and unmoving: ‘Someone you currently trust completely.’She looked up slowly, and found Doris watching her with an open, worried concern, and felt something cold and shameful twist through her chest at the thought that had already, unwillingly, begun forming.“Was it you?”She hated herself instantly for it. Doris had bled for this cause, had stood in a hospital room and forgiven the man who'd built her entire life on a lie, had risked her own safety wearing a wire into her father's estate. And still, for one terrible, involuntary second, Alicia's mind had reached for suspicion before it reached for reason."What did it say?" Doris asked gently.Alicia hesitated, old training warring against the part of her that desperately wanted to simply trust someone, anyone, without immediately calculating the cost of th
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