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CHAPTER EIGHT—THE FIRST ATTACK

Author: BRIDGITTA Smiths
last update Huling Na-update: 2025-12-19 06:03:28

For a moment, Elara couldn’t move.

The words Kai had murmured were still hanging in the air, sharp and chilling, like the cold breath of a door left open in winter.

Target acquired.

Not protected.

Not escorted.

Not rescued.

Acquired.

Kai slipped the unmarked device back into his jacket as if nothing had happened. When he turned toward her, the shadows in the narrow hallway caught the angles of his face, and she couldn’t read a single thing in his expression.

He lifted a hand, not touching her, just gesturing.

“Inside. Now.”

Elara stepped back on instinct. “Who were you talking to?”

“Not here,” he said quietly.

That answer wasn’t good enough, and he knew it, but his eyes flicked past her shoulder, listening for something she couldn’t hear. She didn’t know if he was being cautious or hiding something, and that uncertainty made her skin crawl.

Another faint sound rolled through the house.

A scraping.

A floorboard shifting.

Slow. Deliberate.

Not Kai.

Not Valentina.

Not her.

Her pulse le
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