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CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR — KAI CONFRONTS VALENTINA
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THE BILLIONAIRE'S HIDDEN MISSION CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE — THE USB DRIVE
Elara’s hands were still shaking when she reached Damon’s office. Not the uncontrollable tremor of fear, but the aftershock of everything her body had endured in the last few hours. Smoke still clung faintly to the hem of her jacket. Her palms burned where the skin had scraped raw against concrete and metal. Every muscle protested with each step she took down the familiar corridor. And beneath all of it, the echo of Kai’s voice still lived inside her ears. Don’t… leave. She hadn’t. Not really. But she also hadn’t stayed. Because staying meant being found. And whoever had been watching them at the pier hadn’t been there by accident. The mansion greeted her with silence, but it was the wrong kind. Not the comfortable quiet she used to associate with late nights and empty halls, but something sharper. Alert. As if the walls themselves were listening. She closed the office door behind her carefully, making sure it didn’t latch too loudly. She didn’t turn on the overhead lights.
THE BILLIONAIRE'S HIDDEN MISSION CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR — KAI CONFRONTS VALENTINA
Kai woke to the subtle hum of machinery and the muted echo of footsteps somewhere beyond the room. His eyelids felt heavy, but the sharp sting in his ribs reminded him he didn’t have the luxury of easing back into consciousness.His first thought wasn’t his injuries.It was Elara.The last memory before darkness swallowed everything was her dragging him through smoke and fire, refusing to let go even as the world collapsed around them.He tried to push himself upright, and pain flared hot and immediate. A thin hiss escaped him, but he forced himself to sit.The room came into focus, white walls, soft clinical lighting, stainless steel counters stocked with medical equipment. A private medical wing.Valentina’s domain.GKai scanned the space, searching for Elara.Empty.His pulse quickened, not from fear, but from urgency.He swung his legs off the medical table just as the door opened.Valentina stepped inside.Her posture was as pristine as the room, composed, elegant, untouched by
THE BILLIONAIRE'S HIDDEN MISSION CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE — A WEDDING FLASHBACK
Elara didn’t know how long she sat there beside Kai, listening to the distant crackle of the fire and the restless waves hitting the pier. The night air was cool against her smoke-stung skin, grounding her just enough to keep her from unraveling.Kai was unconscious but breathing. That was the only thing keeping her from falling apart.Her body was trembling, shock, adrenaline, exhaustion , she wasn’t sure. But her mind wasn’t in the harbor anymore.It had pulled her backward.To a day she had tried very hard not to remember.The wedding was beautiful.Grand, elegant, flawless, the kind of event magazines loved and strangers envied.People gasped when she walked down the aisle. Not because of her, but because the event itself demanded it. The Moretti name, the venue draped in white roses, the orchestra filling the air with a love song she never felt connected to.She remembered standing in the hallway before the ceremony, surrounded by stylists adjusting details she didn't care abou
THE BILLIONAIRE'S HIDDEN MISSION CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO — ELARA SAVES KAI THIS TIME
Silence shouldn’t exist after an explosion, yet somehow it did.A thick, crushing silence. The kind that followed shock so complete it distorted reality. The kind that pressed against the ears until the world felt distant and unreal.Elara lay flat on the cold concrete, lungs burning as she dragged air into them. Smoke filled her mouth, her nose, her throat. Her ears rang sharply, a high, relentless sound that refused to fade. For a moment, she couldn’t tell if she was screaming or if the sound was only inside her head.Her vision swam, light and shadow bleeding into one another. Shapes blurred, then sharpened, then blurred again.Fire crackled somewhere nearby.Metal groaned overhead.Something collapsed in the distance with a dull, echoing crash.And then memory slammed into her.Kai.Her heart lurched violently.She forced her arms beneath her, pushing herself upright. Pain flared instantly, shooting through her shoulders and down her ribs, but she barely noticed it. Pain was backg
THE BILLIONAIRE'S HIDDEN MISSION CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE — AMBUSH IN THE HARBOR
Elara didn’t remember leaving the mansion.Not the exact moment, not the path she took through the corridors, not the sound of the door closing behind her. What she remembered was the pressure in her chest, the feeling that if she stayed another second staring at Damon’s emails, she would suffocate.The truth had been too sharp. Too sudden.She needed air. Distance. Movement.The numbers printed beneath the photo burned in her mind as she drove. Coordinates. A precise location. A message that hadn’t been meant for her, yet felt deliberately placed where she would find it.An invitation.Or a challenge.Lumine Bay’s industrial harbor stretched ahead under a gray, unsettled sky. The clouds hung low and heavy, threatening rain but delivering none. Cargo cranes loomed like metal giants frozen mid-stride, their long arms stretching over the water. Rows of abandoned shipping containers sat stacked in uneven lines, their faded paint peeling like old scars.The wind cut sharply across the ope
THE BILLIONAIRE'S HIDDEN MISSION CHAPTER TWENTY — DAMON’S SECRET CONTACTS
The office felt colder than when she’d entered earlier.Not physically, not in any way the thermostat could explain, but in the way certain rooms carried memory. As if the walls absorbed secrets and breathed them back into the air when the wrong person stepped inside. As if everything ever spoken here had left a residue.Elara paused just inside the doorway, letting the silence settle around her.The room looked the same. The desk aligned with surgical precision. The shelves, spotless. The faint scent of Damon’s cologne still lingering, irritatingly familiar. Nothing had been disturbed.And yet, everything felt exposed.She crossed the room slowly and sat in Damon’s chair again. The leather was cool beneath her palms. This time, her body didn’t tremble. The shock she’d felt earlier had burned itself out, leaving something sharper behind.Resolve.She took a steady breath, grounding herself.“Alright, Damon,” she murmured into the quiet. “Show me what you never wanted me to see.”The c
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