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The inheritance of blood
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Owned By My Father's Rival The fragile after
Chapter 70: The Fragile AfterThe holding cell door didn't lock behind them.That was the first thing Elena noticed. The absence of the click. The way the latch caught but didn't seal. She could push it open from the inside. She could walk out whenever she wanted.But she didn't.She stood in the center of the blue room, Lucien's hands still in hers, and waited for someone to tell her this wasn't a dream."It's real," he said."How do you know?""Because my hands are shaking.""Mine too.""That's fear.""That's relief.""Same thing.""No." She squeezed his fingers. "Different thing."---The door opened.Reyes."Ms. Hart. Mr. Black. Come with me."They followed her down the corridor. Past the blue doors. Past the gray doors. Past the agents who had spent weeks hunting them.The lobby was crowded.Reporters. Cameras. Microphones.Reyes led them through a side door.Outside.Cold air. Gray sky. The smell of rain.A car was waiting."Where are we going?" Elena asked."Somewhere safe.""W
Owned By My Father's Rival The price of refusal
Chapter 69: The Price of RefusalThe conference room emptied.Agents filed out. Guards took positions by the doors. Reyes lingered at the threshold, her hand on the frame, her eyes fixed on Elena."You're making a mistake," Reyes said."Maybe.""Not maybe. Definitely."Elena didn't move from the window."I've been making mistakes my whole life. One more won't kill me.""It might." Reyes stepped back into the room. "You're refusing immunity. You're refusing cooperation. You're refusing the only chance you have to walk out of this building a free woman.""I'm refusing to abandon the people I love.""Love." Reyes laughed. Soft. Bitter. "What does love have to do with any of this?""Everything.""Love is why your mother trafficked those girls. Love is why Mira faked her death. Love is why Margaret poisoned her own daughter.""That's not love. That's possession.""Same thing.""No." Elena turned from the window. "Different thing."---Lucien stood by the table.His hand rested on the back
Owned By My Father's Rival The interrogation
Chapter 68: The InterrogationThe holding cell was gray.Gray walls. Gray floor. Gray ceiling. A bench bolted to the wall. A toilet without a seat. A camera in the corner, red light blinking, recording everything.Elena sat on the bench.Her wrists were raw where the handcuffs had been. Her shoulders ached from the hours of waiting. Her eyes burned from lack of sleep.The door opened.A woman entered. Mid-forties. Dark hair pulled back in a bun. A suit that cost more than Elena's first car. Her face was familiar."Special Agent Reyes," the woman said. "We met before. In Washington.""I remember.""You're harder to find than you look.""I've been hiding.""Obviously."Reyes sat across from her. Folded her hands on the table."You're in a lot of trouble, Ms. Hart.""I know.""Conspiracy. Racketeering. Aiding and abetting. Obstruction of justice.""I know.""You could go to prison for the rest of your life.""I know."Reyes leaned back."You don't seem scared.""I'm terrified.""Then why
Owned By My Father's Rival The bear at the door
Chapter 67: The Bear at the DoorVolodya filled the doorway.He was larger than Elena remembered. Thicker. His face was scarred from the explosion—burns on his cheek, his neck, his hands. But his eyes were the same. Cold. Calculating. The eyes of a man who had survived things that should have killed him and come out the other side harder.Marina stood in front of him, her hands bound, her face bruised. A gag was tied around her mouth. Her eyes were wide, wet, pleading.Lucien's gun was aimed at Volodya's head."Let her go."Volodya smiled."No.""Then die.""Shoot me, and she dies too." He pressed the gun harder against Marina's back. "I have men outside. Men with rifles. Men with nothing to lose.""What do you want?"Volodya looked past Lucien. At Elena. At Mira. At Isabella."I want the flash drive. The one Irina brought. The one with the Swiss accounts.""It's not yours.""Everything is mine." Volodya pushed Marina into the room. She stumbled. Fell to her knees. "Alexei is dead. Th
Owned By My Father's Rival The keeper of lies
Chapter 66: The Keeper of LiesThe room held its breath.Irina stood in the doorway, phone still raised, face still pale. The confession hung in the air between them—thick, heavy, impossible to ignore. She had sent the texts. She had been the one tracking them, scaring them, pushing them from place to place.Lucien's gun stayed raised."Explain," he said.Irina lowered the phone."I've been watching you since Margaret died. Following you. Making sure you stayed ahead of Volodya.""By terrifying us?""By keeping you alive." She stepped further into the room. "Every time you stopped moving, I sent a message. Every time you got comfortable, I reminded you that you weren't safe.""You could have just told us.""Would you have believed me?""No.""Then I did what I had to do."---Mira moved from the window."Irina.""Aunt Mira.""Don't call me that.""What should I call you? The woman who abandoned her son? The woman who let the empire consume everyone she loved? The woman who's been hidi
Owned By My Father's Rival The Reckoning of mothers
Chapter 65: The Reckoning of MothersThe fire crackled in the hearth.Mira sat at the wooden table, her hands wrapped around a clay mug, steam rising from the dark liquid inside. She looked old. Older than she had looked at the cabin. The journey through the jungle had drained something from her, some reserve of strength she had been holding in reserve.Isabella stood in the doorway.Her hand was on the frame. Her knuckles were white. Her face was pale, but her eyes were steady."Mira," she said."Isabella." Mira set down the mug. "You're alive.""So are you.""Barely.""Same."They looked at each other across the small room. Two women who had been broken by the same empire. Two women who had lost everything to the same lies.Elena stood between them."You knew each other.""Before," Mira said. "Before the empire. Before Margaret. Before any of this.""We were friends," Isabella said. "Young. Stupid. Full of dreams.""What happened?""Life happened." Mira stood. "Life and lies and the
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