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Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride CHAPTER 382: THE FBI LISTENS
The interrogation room at 26 Federal Plaza did not look like the movies. There was no two-way mirror, no dramatic lighting, no smoke-filled air.It was a windowless box painted a shade of beige that seemed designed to drain the hope out of the human soul. The table was laminate, scarred by the handcuffs of a thousand criminals. The air smelled of floor wax and stale electricity.Liam sat on one side of the table. Aurora sat next to him. Arthur Vance sat at the end, his briefcase open, looking like a shark swimming in familiar waters.Across from them sat Special Agent Rivera.Rivera was a woman in her forties with hair pulled back so tight it pulled at her temples and eyes that looked like they had seen the bottom of the ocean and found it boring. She had a digital recorder on the table, but she hadn't turned it on yet."Let me get this straight," Rivera said. She tapped a pen against a yellow legal pad. "You're telling me that your eight-year-old son took a taxi to Queens, entered a
Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride CHAPTER 381: FORTY-SEVEN MINUTES
The Apple logo glowed white in the center of the black screen.To Liam Cross, it looked like a sunrise.He stood in the center of his study. They had moved here from the living room, leaving Ethan with a fresh pizza and Mrs. Higgins in the kitchen. This wasn't something a child needed to hear again. This was evidence. This was radioactive material.Liam placed the phone on the mahogany desk. He plugged it into his computer speakers.Aurora stood next to him, her hand gripping his forearm. Marcus leaned against the locked door, arms crossed, guarding the room.The phone vibrated. It unlocked.Liam’s finger hovered over the Voice Memos app."If it's corrupted..." Aurora whispered."It's not," Liam said. He didn't know that. He just needed it to be true.He tapped the app.A list of files appeared. Most were short—Ethan recording Lego sound effects, or humming Star Wars themes.But at the top of the list, dated today, was a file named New Recording 4.Duration: 47:12.Forty-seven minutes
Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride CHAPTER 380: THE COLLAPSE
The cab ride felt like it took a hundred years.Ethan sat in the backseat, clutching the dead phone to his chest with both hands. He pressed it hard against his sternum, as if his own heartbeat could charge the battery. As if he could keep the voice inside alive just by willing it.Henry owed me a lifetime. His son will pay it.The words echoed in his head, bouncing around like a marble in a tin can. They were scary words. Grown-up words.The cab slowed."This is it, kid," the driver said. "The Cross Building. Fancy."Ethan looked out the window. The building rose up into the rain, tall and glass and safe. The doorman, Henderson, was standing outside under the awning. He looked upset. He was talking into his radio, waving his arms.Ethan opened the door.He stumbled out. His legs felt like they weren't attached to his body anymore. They were wet noodles."Henderson!" Ethan yelled.Henderson spun around. His eyes went wide. He dropped his radio."Ethan?" Henderson shouted. "Holy mother
Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride CHAPTER 379: THE BATTERY
The vibration against Ethan’s thigh was soft.Bzzt.It wasn't the long, angry buzz of a phone call. It was the short, stuttering pulse of a warning.Ethan sat perfectly still in the velvet chair. His hands were folded on the table, just like Isabella’s. He tried to keep his face blank, the way Uncle Marcus had taught him when they played poker with pretzels. Don't let them see your cards, kid.But his heart was beating so hard he thought Isabella could hear it.Bzzt.Another one.Ethan knew what that meant. He played games on his iPad. He knew the warnings.Low Battery. 20%. Or maybe 10%.He had been recording for over an hour. Audio files were big. They ate battery. And he hadn't charged his phone since last night because he had fallen asleep reading The Hobbit to River.He squeezed the worry stone in his left pocket. He squeezed the phone in his right pocket. It felt warm. Too warm. Like it was working too hard."You're fidgeting," Isabella said.Ethan froze.Isabella was refilling
Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride CHAPTER 378: THE CONFESSION UNRAVELS
The tea in the china cup had gone cold.Ethan looked at the dark liquid. It reflected the single, battery-powered lantern sitting on the table, a tiny artificial sun in a universe of shadows.Across from him, Isabella Voss was refilling her own cup. She poured with a steady hand, the stream of tea perfect and graceful, as if she weren't sitting in a rotting warehouse in Queens, plotting the destruction of his family.Ethan shifted in the velvet chair. His legs didn't reach the floor. He pressed his heels against the chair legs to stop them from shaking.Be a spy, Uncle Marcus had told him once, when they were playing hide-and-seek. Spies don't wiggle. Spies wait.Ethan touched the phone in his pocket. It was still there. Still humming with the silent vibration of the recording app.He looked at Isabella. She looked like a witch from a fairy tale who had dressed up as a queen."You're quiet," Isabella said. She took a sip of tea. "Henry was quiet when he was plotting. Are you plotting,
Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride CHAPTER 377: THE STORY SHE TOLD
The inside of the warehouse didn't smell like secrets anymore. It smelled like Earl Grey tea.Ethan followed the woman in the cream coat through the shadows. His sneakers didn't make a sound on the concrete floor—he was walking on the balls of his feet, like a spy, like Uncle Marcus taught him.They walked past rusty machines that looked like sleeping metal dinosaurs. They walked past stacks of rotting pallets. And then, in the center of the vast, empty space, they found a room without walls.It was a setup. A movie set.There was a folding table covered in a white cloth. There were two chairs—not plastic ones, but velvet chairs with gold legs. There was a silver tray with a teapot and two china cups. A battery-powered lantern sat in the middle, casting a warm, yellow circle of light that fought against the gray gloom of the warehouse."Sit," Isabella said.She didn't sound like the bad man in the lobby. She sounded like a teacher. Or a grandmother.Ethan hesitated. He touched the pho
Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride Chapter 179: The Restraining Order
The morning after the fire, the world smelled of ash and ozone.Liam and Aurora stood in the ruins of the Montauk beach house. The deck was charred black. The siding was scorched. But the structure—the bones of the house—had held."It can be fixed," the contractor said, kicking a piece of blackened
ปรับปรุงล่าสุด : 2026-03-30Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride Chapter 178: The Reveal
The beach house in Montauk was supposed to be a fortress.Liam had quadrupled the security. There were guards at the gate, guards on the dunes, and a perimeter alarm system that could detect a seagull landing on the roof.But fear didn't need a gate code.It was 2 AM. The ocean was a restless, chur
ปรับปรุงล่าสุด : 2026-03-30Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride Chapter 183: United Front
The morning after the arrest, the penthouse felt different.It wasn't just safe. It was fortified. But the walls weren't made of stone or glass. They were made of resolve.Aurora woke up first. She was still in the middle of the bed, sandwiched between Liam and Ethan. Her arm was asleep, pinned und
ปรับปรุงล่าสุด : 2026-03-30Runaway Heiress: The Billionaire’s Forgotten Bride Chapter 184: The Therapy
The waiting room of Dr. Aris Thorne, Child Psychologist, was designed to be disarming.It was painted a soft, soothing blue. There were fish tanks bubbling quietly in the corners. The furniture was rounded, soft, and child-sized. It was a world away from the sharp edges of the Cross Empire tower or
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