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The keycard burned in my pocket as we sped toward Geneva in a stolen Audi. Rain streaked the windshield in silver ribbons, blurring the city lights into smears of color. Jeff hadn’t spoken since we’d left Zurich, his jaw set in a hard line as he navigated the winding roads.I traced the edge of the birth certificate I’d stolen from the wreckage—my birth certificate, with a date that shouldn’t exist. The paper was worn soft at the creases, as if someone had unfolded and refolded it a thousand times.Jeff’s fingers tightened on the wheel. “You don’t have to do this.”The unspoken please hung between us.I tucked the certificate back into my jacket. “Yes, I do.”The lab was hidden beneath a nondescript biotech firm on the outskirts of Geneva. Nolan’s keycard got us past the first security checkpoint, but the real test came at the retinal scanner beside the elevator.Jeff exhaled sharply. “You’re really going through with this.”I pressed my eye to the scanner. “You don’t have to come.”T
RUTHLESS BILLIONAIRE EX-HUSBAND CHASED ME BACK CHAPTER 186
The photograph trembled in my hands as Jeff pulled me through the chalet's back kitchen. Snow lashed against the windows like frantic ghosts."Jeff—stop!" I wrenched free, my boots sliding on the marble. "Did you see that date?"His face was all sharp angles in the emergency lighting. "I saw a staged photo."A door creaked upstairs. Nolan's voice carried down the spiral staircase: "She deserves to know why her DNA was on file before she was born!"Jeff's fingers found mine, warm and rough. "We're leaving. Now."The garage door groaned open to reveal a vintage snowcat, its yellow paint peeling. Jeff hotwired it with practiced ease as I climbed into the passenger seat."You knew." My voice sounded hollow. "All this time, you knew."The engine roared to life. Jeff's knuckles whitened on the wheel. "Not everything."We plowed through snowdrifts, the chalet shrinking in the rearview mirror. The storm swallowed the road whole, reducing the world to white noise and the pounding of my heart.
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The private jet hummed softly as we crossed the Swiss Alps, dawn painting the snow-capped peaks in gold. Jeff sat across from me, his long legs taking up far too much space in the cabin. He'd been quiet for the last hour, staring out the window with that intense focus usually reserved for mission briefings."You're thinking too loud," I said, nudging his boot with mine.His lips quirked. "Just wondering why Naz insisted on sending us to this mountain resort."The lie came easily. Too easily. We both knew this wasn't a vacation. The encrypted file Naz had slipped me at the airport burned a hole in my jacket pocket—a single photograph of a chalet with coordinates that matched the last known location of Project Phoenix's lead scientist.The plane hit an air pocket. My coffee sloshed. Jeff's hand shot out to steady the cup, his fingers brushing mine. A simple touch, but it sent warmth curling through my chest."You never did tell me," I said softly, "why you really agreed to this mission.
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The first thing I registered was the smell of damp earth and rusted metal. The second was the shackle biting into my left wrist.I blinked against the flickering fluorescent lights. Some kind of underground bunker—concrete walls, exposed pipes, and the distant hum of generators. Jeff hung unconscious beside me, his arms suspended by chains bolted to the ceiling. Blood dripped from a gash above his eyebrow.Across the room, Phoenix lay strapped to a surgical table, her luminous veins pulsing erratically beneath her skin. Nolan stood over her, adjusting an IV drip filled with swirling black fluid."Awake already?" He didn't look up from his work. "The sedative should have lasted another hour. Remarkable physiology."I tested my restraints. Titanium alloy. No give. "What did you do to her?"Nolan smiled, that same charming grin that had once made my pulse quicken. Now it just made me want to break his fingers one by one. "I'm fixing what the Consortium failed to complete."Jeff stirred w
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"Told you it was a setup," he growled.Nolan's voice came through gritted teeth. "Not by me. They've been monitoring my comms."A grenade clattered at our feet.Jeff grabbed me and lunged as it exploded, shielding me with his body. The impact rattled my teeth, leaving my ears ringing. When the smoke cleared, Jeff was bleeding from a shrapnel wound in his thigh."Jeff!""I'm good." He grimaced as he stood. "Go! I'll cover you."I hesitated for only a second before nodding. Nolan appeared at my side as we sprinted for the stairwell."You shouldn't trust him," Nolan said between breaths."And I should trust you?"He didn't answer.The sublevel was a nightmare of glass tanks and surgical equipment. And there, in the center - a woman floated in amber liquid, her features achingly familiar.Me. But different. Younger. Her skin traced with luminous veins.A scientist cowered behind a console. "P-please, you don't understand what you're interrupting!"I shot him in the kneecap. "Enlighten me.
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The safehouse in Dubai smelled like salt and gunpowder. The ceiling fan wobbled overhead, casting uneven shadows across the maps and intel spread over the rickety table. Jeff leaned against the wall, arms crossed, watching me with those piercing blue eyes that always saw too much.I rubbed my temples, trying to ignore the headache building behind my eyes. Three days since Berlin. Three days since we burned the last of the clones. Three days since I’d slept more than an hour at a time."You need to rest," Jeff said, his voice rough."I need to finish this." My fingers tightened around the dossier in my hands—the last known locations of Consortium operatives still loyal to Julian’s legacy.Jeff pushed off the wall and crossed the room in three strides. He took the dossier from me, his fingers brushing mine. "You’re no good to anyone dead on your feet."I glared up at him. "I don’t need a babysitter."His jaw clenched. "No, you need someone to remind you that you’re human."The words hit
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