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Chapter 137

Author: Nikky Mathew
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The Waiting Game

Antonio

My estate was a ghost town of grim faces and my office had been covered in useless maps that leads to dead ends for the past week now.

My rage had burned itself into a cold, hollow ache in my chest, I was still frantic, every fiber of my being screaming for action, but the leads had dried up.

I teared apart Lorenzo's known operations, every warehouse, every man connected to him, but we found nothing, he had hidden her too well.

I had personally interrogated dozens, perhaps hundreds, of men, my voice was hoarse from shouting, my hands bruised from impact.

But every broken bone, every terrified confession, led only to silence when it came to Elisa.

The helplessness was a constant, suffocating weight in my life, I felt like I was failing Elisa and my baby. My purpose, my very reason for being since I found out I was having a child, was to protect them. And I had failed.

The thought troubled me, stripping away my control, leaving me raw and exposed. Sleep of
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    The Waiting GameAntonio My estate was a ghost town of grim faces and my office had been covered in useless maps that leads to dead ends for the past week now. My rage had burned itself into a cold, hollow ache in my chest, I was still frantic, every fiber of my being screaming for action, but the leads had dried up. I teared apart Lorenzo's known operations, every warehouse, every man connected to him, but we found nothing, he had hidden her too well.I had personally interrogated dozens, perhaps hundreds, of men, my voice was hoarse from shouting, my hands bruised from impact. But every broken bone, every terrified confession, led only to silence when it came to Elisa. The helplessness was a constant, suffocating weight in my life, I felt like I was failing Elisa and my baby. My purpose, my very reason for being since I found out I was having a child, was to protect them. And I had failed. The thought troubled me, stripping away my control, leaving me raw and exposed. Sleep of

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