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Chapter 119: Where She Went
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2026-07-26 10:32:24
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THE BODYGUARD’S HIDDEN TRUTH Chapter 120: What Cross Decided
Colette led us into the farmhouse’s small kitchen, exhaustion evident in every movement, though something steadier had settled beneath her fear since we’d found her. “I need to tell you what I know,” she said, sitting heavily at the table. “About Devereux. About why I think you found me before he did.”“What happened,” Ethan asked, remaining standing near the door, watchful even in this small, quiet space. “I received a call,” Colette said. “Two nights ago. Not from Devereux directly. From Cross.”The room sharpened its attention immediately. “What did he say,” I asked. “He told me Devereux intended to act against me,” Colette said slowly. “That he’d learned of it through channels even I don’t fully understand, and that he’d decided to intervene.” She looked up, something complicated in her expression. “He told me he’d spoken to Devereux directly. Convinced him, apparently, that acting against me would constitute a mistake, not simply a betrayal to correct.”“He protected you,” I said
THE BODYGUARD’S HIDDEN TRUTH Chapter 119: Where She Went
Two days passed without word from Colette, the silence heavier this time than any of her previous careful pauses. Nolan checked the old channel repeatedly, her own anxiety mounting visibly with each unanswered attempt.“This isn’t like her,” Nolan said, on the third morning, finding me in the kitchen. “Even during the worst of everything, she’s always responded eventually, even if only briefly.” “Maybe she’s simply being careful,” I said, though my own worry matched hers closely. “Moving somewhere secure enough that even the old channel isn’t safe to use yet.”Reyes had been working nonstop since the warning about Devereux, tracking every fragment of information she could find, though the security firm’s Eastern European origins made tracing anything considerably harder than the domestic networks we’d grown accustomed to navigating. “I’ve got almost nothing,” she admitted, exhaustion evident in her voice by the fourth day. “Whoever’s behind that firm, they’re considerably better at co
THE BODYGUARD’S HIDDEN TRUTH Chapter 118: Devereux
Reyes worked through the night and most of the following day, and by evening she had assembled enough fragments to bring something concrete to the war room table. “Devereux,” she said, spreading a handful of printouts across the surface. “Real name, as far as I can determine, is Julian Devereux. Former financial consultant, active roughly the same era as Whitfield’s early operations, though his own trail goes cold almost entirely after the mid-2000s.”“Cold how,” Ethan asked. “No death certificate, no obituary, nothing definitive,” Reyes said. “Similar to how Daniel disappeared, similar to how Cross himself has apparently existed for decades. But there’s one difference. Devereux’s name surfaces once more, briefly, six years ago — connected to a private security firm operating out of Eastern Europe, the same region Colette mentioned when describing Cross’s unidentified associate from the intermediary conversation months ago.”“Security firm,” Marcus repeated slowly. “Not financial cons
THE BODYGUARD’S HIDDEN TRUTH Chapter 117: A Quiet Return
The morning after the garden proposal, I woke slowly, sunlight warm across the bed, Ethan’s steady breathing beside me, both rings catching the light on my hand when I lifted it to study them once more, still faintly disbelieving of the joy settled so completely into my chest.It was Reyes who brought us gently back to earth, finding us at breakfast with something careful in her expression despite her genuine happiness for us the night before. “I don’t want to interrupt this,” she said, sitting across from us. “But I think we need to check in on the Cross situation properly. It’s been a week since his last note, and I’d rather we stay ahead of whatever he’s planning than let the silence lull us into complacency.”“You’re right,” Ethan said, some of yesterday’s soft joy giving way to careful focus, though his hand remained steady around mine beneath the table. “What have you found?”“Nothing new from him directly,” Reyes said. “But I did some digging into his warning about others he mi
THE BODYGUARD’S HIDDEN TRUTH Chapter 116: The Real Ring
Ethan kept his promise a week later, though he gave no warning of when or how, simply asking me one evening to dress warmly and trust him with the details. I found myself, an hour later, standing at the edge of the same wild garden where my mother’s greenhouse still stood, string lights woven carefully through the overgrown roses, a small table set with two chairs beneath the open evening sky.“You did all this,” I said, breathless, taking in the careful, quiet beauty of it. “With help,” Ethan admitted, something nervous and pleased in his voice. “Josephine showed me which flowers your mother loved best. Daniel actually managed something edible for once, without my supervision this time.” He gestured to the small table. “I wanted this to be here. In her garden. I thought she deserved to be part of this, in whatever way we could manage.”Something in my chest ached with gratitude at the thoughtfulness of it. “She’d have loved this,” I said softly. “I think so too,” Ethan said.We sat t
THE BODYGUARD’S HIDDEN TRUTH Chapter 115: Telling the Family
We found the household gathered in the kitchen, Daniel once again attempting something ambitious with dinner, Marcus offering his usual dry commentary, Reyes reviewing something on her tablet despite her earlier promise to leave work at the door more often. It was Josephine who noticed first, her sharp eyes catching the wooden ring on my finger before I’d said a single word.“Oh,” she said softly, her hand flying to her mouth, tears already gathering. “Oh, Lillian.”The room went quiet, every head turning toward us. “What,” Marcus said, then followed Josephine’s gaze to my hand, understanding dawning across his face. “Wait. Is that—” “Ethan asked me to marry him,” I said, unable to keep the smile from breaking across my face despite months of learning to guard my emotions so carefully. “Not officially, not with the real ring yet. But he asked.”The kitchen erupted. Daniel nearly dropped whatever he’d been stirring, crossing the room to pull Ethan into a fierce hug. “Finally,” he said,
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