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CHAPTER TWENTY TWO - A Dangerous Encounter

ผู้เขียน: OPRAH JAE
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The cabin felt heavier after Don left, like he had scraped the air with his bare hands and left it bruised. For hours, Elena barely moved from where she sat curled on the sofa, staring at nothing, lost in a storm Harry wished he could pull her out of.

Harry watched her from the opposite chair, torn apart by the helplessness twisting inside him. He had never seen Elena like this. Never. The Elena he knew, strong, sharp-tongued, unbending, was the woman who stood up to him the first day they met. She had challenged him, questioned him, even laughed at him when he tried too hard to look serious. She was fire and calm rolled into one. She was the woman who survived her father’s drinking, her sister’s death, the lies, the heartbreaks. She had walked through life’s worst storms and still carried herself like she owed the world nothing.

But this man, Don, had turned her into a trembling shadow in minutes.

Harry couldn’t unsee it. The flinch in her shoulders. The way she wrapped her arms arou
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    The message did not come immediately.That, Elena learned, was part of the design.Weeks passed after the investor event, the one where the unknown man had watched without blinking, without applauding, without leaving a trace. Life at La Rivera settled into a rhythm again, but it was a guarded rhythm, like music played softly so no one outside the room could hear it.Elena trusted patterns more than peace.And the pattern was clear: whoever remained in the shadows was patient.Harry felt it too, though he rarely said it aloud. He had become attuned to the smallest changes: the way Elena paused before entering a room, the way Naomi instinctively scanned crowds, and the way security reports now felt less like protocol and more like survival manuals.Still, they refused to live like fugitives in their own lives.That refusal became an act of defiance in itself.La Rivera hosted a new exhibition titled Resilience, curated quietly but powerfully. The pieces spoke of endurance without victi

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    The days after Naomi’s return unfolded with a strange duality of relief on the surface, vigilance underneath.La Rivera reopened quietly at first. No grand announcements. No celebrations. Just doors unlocking again, light returning to the halls, art breathing back into the space as if it, too, had survived something dangerous. Visitors returned cautiously, then steadily, drawn not just by curiosity but by respect. What had happened was not spoken of publicly in detail, but people sensed it.La Rivera had been tested, and it had not broken.Elena insisted on normalcy for Naomi, even as security tightened around them. Naomi returned to campus with protection she didn’t ask for but accepted without protest. The experience had changed her. Not in the way fear hollows people out, but in the way clarity sharpens them.She was quieter now.More observant.More intentional.One evening, Naomi sat with Elena on the terrace, watching the city lights flicker to life.“I don’t think I’ll ever be

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    The waiting was the hardest part.Not because Elena lacked patience but because every second Naomi was out of her sight felt like a fracture in her chest that refused to heal.La Rivera remained closed to the public, its gates shut, its lights dimmed. To the outside world, it looked like a strategic pause. To Elena, it felt like holding her breath underwater, counting seconds she could not afford to lose.Inside the private conference room, the air was thick with tension. Harry stood by the window, arms folded tightly across his chest, eyes scanning the street below as though sheer will could pull answers out of passing cars. The lead investigator, Detective Alvarez, spread satellite images, maps, and surveillance stills across the table.“We’ve traced a black truck matching witness descriptions,” Alvarez said. “It exited the city using a service road near the industrial district. Cameras lose it shortly after.”Elena leaned forward. “That wasn’t an accident.”“No,” Alvarez agreed. “W

  • SILENT BETWEEN TWO HEARTS   CHAPTER HUNDRED AND FIVE: TERROR WITHIN

    The escalation came without warning.It was a clear afternoon when Naomi left the campus, ordinary, uneventful, the kind of day that lulled people into forgetting danger existed at all. She had texted Elena minutes earlier, a casual update about heading home later than planned. Nothing unusual. Nothing alarming.Then the world shifted.The black truck pulled up too smoothly to be a coincidence.Two men stepped out. Their movements were efficient, rehearsed, no shouting, no spectacle. Naomi barely had time to register confusion before a hand covered her mouth and another guided her firmly forward. She struggled, but they were careful not to hurt her. A cloth slipped over her eyes, darkness swallowing the street in an instant.The door slammed.The engine roared.And the city disappeared.When Naomi came to her senses fully, the truck was already moving fast, the rhythm of the road unfamiliar. Her wrists weren’t bound tightly, but the message was clear: resistance was pointless. She foc

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    The night had settled into La Rivera with deceptive calm.Elena had stayed back longer than planned, her office lights still on long after most of the galleries had dimmed. Paperwork lay spread across her deskre structuring plans, curator contracts, security reports she had been reviewing with more attention than comfort. A few staff members were still on-site, wrapping up installations for the next exhibition. Harry was downstairs, finishing a late conversation with one of the senior managers.Elena told herself she was fine.She told herself the unease was just fatigue.But something in the air felt wrong.She stood from her desk to stretch, walking toward the window that overlooked the main hall. The building was quiet, but not empty; its silence carried echoes, the kind that made every footstep feel louder than it should be.Then she heard it.A sound that did not belong.Soft. Intentional.The faint scrape of a door that should have been locked.Elena froze.Her heart began to po

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    The days following Naomi’s return carried a fragile calm, beautiful on the surface, but threaded with something unspoken beneath it.La Rivera continued to thrive, the wedding plans resting neatly in folders and shared glances, but Elena felt it first: that subtle tightening in the air, the way success often invited attention it did not ask for.It began quietly.A delay in one of the restructuring approvals.A curator is withdrawing unexpectedly.An investor requesting a private meeting, then canceling without explanation.Nothing alarming on its own. But together, they formed a pattern Elena had learned never to ignore.Harry noticed the change in her before she spoke about it. He saw it in the way she paused before answering questions, in how she reread documents twice instead of once, in the way her gaze lingered on exits when they entered a room.“You’re distracted,” he said one evening as they sat on the terrace overlooking La Rivera, the city glowing below them.Elena didn’t de

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