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CHAPTER 25

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The relief of stepping out of that elevator with Chelsea felt like the weight of weeks of tension finally easing off my shoulders. But even though we'd had a breakthrough, I knew it wasn’t going to be that easy. Forgiveness wasn’t a switch you could just flip on. I could tell Chelsea was willing to move forward, but regaining her trust? That was going to take time.

And I was ready to put in the effort.

The next morning, we had back-to-back meetings with the clients. The tension had simmered down between us, but the ease, the natural flow we used to have, wasn’t there yet. Chelsea still kept a polite distance, only engaging with me when necessary. I caught her staring at me a few times, as if she were still weighing my sincerity.

I hated it. I missed the way we used to be.

During lunch, I tried to close the gap. “Hey, want to grab a bite together?”

She hesitated, her eyes flicking between me and the café across the street where some of our team members were heading. Then she gave a sma
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  • RUTHLESS BILLIONAIRE EX-HUSBAND CHASED ME BACK   CHAPTER 189

    The child's laughter echoed through the ryokan like wind chimes in a storm. She couldn't be real—this tiny girl with Jeff's eyes and my nose, barefoot in a yukata three sizes too big. Yet when she grabbed my hand, her fingers were warm."Lena missed you," she chirped, dragging me across the threshold.Jeff's knife clattered to the wooden floor.The interior was a time capsule—faded crayon drawings under plexiglass, a child-sized kotatsu with half-finished origami, a wall of photos showing a progression that made my stomach twist: Jeff holding an infant. Jeff teaching a toddler to walk. Jeff asleep on the tatami with a dark-haired girl curled on his chest.All with dates from fifteen years ago.Nolan leaned against the doorframe. "Memory suppression works both ways, brother. You trained her. Loved her. Then forgot her."Lena tugged me toward a sliding door. "Come see!"The room beyond was a laboratory disguised as a playroom. A IV drip hung beside a dollhouse. A biometric scanner was e

  • RUTHLESS BILLIONAIRE EX-HUSBAND CHASED ME BACK   CHAPTER 188

    The safehouse shower ran scarlet for twenty minutes before the water cleared. I scrubbed until my skin burned, but the smell of smoke and antiseptic clung to me like a second skin.Jeff waited by the boarded-up window, his silhouette painted in streetlight and shadow. He'd been silent since Geneva, letting me process in that infuriating way of his—all quiet understanding and watchful eyes.I tugged the stolen journal from my duffel. The leather cover stuck to my damp fingers. "We need to talk about what's in here."Jeff took it like it might detonate, flipping to the marked page with careful precision. His eyes scanned Voss's neat handwriting, then froze.*"Subject D-28 shows promising adaptation to the genetic modifications. Unlike previous iterations, this one displays emotional resilience. The soldier assigned to her training—Lieutenant J. Ryans—has proven unexpectedly effective at establishing trust."*Jeff's throat worked. "That's not my name."I turned the page. A photograph flu

  • RUTHLESS BILLIONAIRE EX-HUSBAND CHASED ME BACK   CHAPTER 187

    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.

  • RUTHLESS BILLIONAIRE EX-HUSBAND CHASED ME BACK   CHAPTER 185

    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.

  • RUTHLESS BILLIONAIRE EX-HUSBAND CHASED ME BACK   CHAPTER 184

    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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