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Chapter Ninety-Three The Counterstrike

작가: Jane James
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Elena

There’s a distinct click in my mind when survival mode takes over.

It’s not panic.

It’s precision.

A quiet detachment that allows me to calculate risk with brutal clarity—like a surgeon holding a scalpel. After everything Jason had done, every line he’d crossed, I realized the only way to end this… was to become someone he’d never see coming.

I wasn’t scared anymore.

I was done playing defense.

Lucas arrived just before dawn, stepping off the private charter jet with a hardened look in his eyes I hadn’t seen since the early days of his career. Not the polished attorney who wore designer suits and argued ethics. No—this was the man who once dismantled entire corporations for sport. The man who had been forged in the fires of betrayal, just like me.

“Elena,” he said, voice taut with restraint, “he threatened your son?”

I nodded once.

That was all it took.

We sat in a small café in the village square, cloaked in shadows and early mornin
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