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THE TRUTH
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2026-09-16 07:44:36
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THE COST OF SAVING HIM HE WENT HIMSELF
Kane's POVHis father's house looked exactly the same as it always had.Kane stood outside it for a moment before going in, looking at the gates, the garden, the windows — all of it exactly as he remembered, maintained with the specific care of someone who believed that environments reflected character and had strong opinions about both.He went in without calling ahead.The staff let him through because they always had, because whatever had been dissolved on paper, the muscle memory of this house hadn't caught up with the documents yet, and Kane walked through the entrance and found his father in the sitting room with a book and an expression that shifted the moment he looked up and saw who had walked in."Kane." He set the book down slowly. "What brings you here."Kane looked around the room. Then the hallway. Then back at his father. "Where were you after the gala?"His father looked at him. "I came home.""Straight home.""Yes.""Why so quickly," Kane said. "The celebration wasn't
THE COST OF SAVING HIM "BE CAREFUL OF YOUR OWN SON..?"
Kane's POVMarcus came through the door and looked at the state of the study — the maps, the papers, the men moving in and out — and then looked at Kane."Tell me what happened," he said.Kane looked at him. "You haven't seen her? Since the gala?""No." Marcus sat down. "Kane. Tell me what happened."Kane looked at the window. "We were in the private bar room. Just the two of us." He kept his voice level, factual, the way he talked about things when the alternative was something he didn't have time for. "I got called to a meeting. Senior staff, internal, the message came through the hotel system." He paused. "When I got there they told me it had been cancelled. Nobody knew who called it."Marcus looked at him. "And when you went back—""She was gone." Kane looked at the desk. "Security footage confirmed it. The moment I left that bar room, the door opened. Two men went in. They were in there less than three minutes." He held Marcus's gaze. "They planned it around the meeting. Someone
THE COST OF SAVING HIM THE TRUTH
Nadia's POV"Are you ready to listen now?"He came in without knocking, which I was beginning to understand was simply how he moved through spaces he considered his, and sat in the chair by the door with the ease of someone who had decided this conversation was happening on his terms and was waiting for me to accept that.I was sitting on the bed. I'd been sitting on the bed for the better part of an hour since he'd left, turning the question over — *are you Kane's father* — and the way he'd walked out without answering, which was its own kind of answer."That depends," I said. "On whether what you're saying is worth listening to."He looked at me. "It is.""Then talk," I said.He folded his hands in his lap and looked at the window for a moment, the way people looked at something neutral when they were organizing what they were about to say, and then he looked back at me."Kane was exceptional," he said. Not warmly. Just factually, the way someone stated something they'd observed ove
THE COST OF SAVING HIM KANE''S FATHER
Nadia's POVTwo days.It had been two days and nobody had come for me and nobody had told me anything and the room had become something I knew too well — every crack in the wall, every angle of the light at different hours, the exact sound the lock made when someone was about to open it versus when someone was just passing by in the corridor.I'd stopped pounding on the door after the first day. Not because I'd given up but because pounding wasn't productive and I needed to be productive.So I looked at the room instead.Really looked. The way you looked at something when you were trying to use it rather than just be stuck in it. The furniture was old but not neglected — someone had maintained this room, had cared about it at some point. There was a wardrobe against the far wall that I hadn't opened yet and I went to it now and pulled it open.Clothes. Old ones, folded. A jacket that belonged to someone considerably larger than me. Shoes that hadn't been worn in years by the look of t
THE COST OF SAVING HIM ALMOST ESCAPED
Nadia's POVI heard the door open and a man came in. Not young, a little bit old, dressed well in the way that suggested he was used to dressing well and had never given it much thought. He looked around the room briefly and then looked at me, and his expression carried the specific calm of someone who had walked into rooms like this before and found them unremarkable.I looked back at him from the chair."You were shouting," he said."Yes," I said."You were disturbing because I had a visitor""A visitor?", I asked and I decided to scream. "Help!, I'm being tied down". "Stop", he ordered me immediately. "No." I held his gaze. "Tell me why I'm here and then I'll consider it."He looked at me for a moment, something moving briefly in his expression that I couldn't read. "You'll know soon enough.""I'd like to know now," I said. "I'd like to know who you are, who took me, and what exactly you want from me, because I've been in this chair since I woke up and nobody has said a single u
THE COST OF SAVING HIM CLUE
Kane's POV"We've checked the north corridor cameras twice," one of his men said. "Nothing unusual before midnight.""Check them again," Kane said.Nobody argued.He was standing with his back to the room, facing the window, the city outside doing its indifferent early morning thing while five men stood behind him in the study and waited for whatever came next. He hadn't turned to face them since they'd come in. He didn't particularly want to look at any of them right now."The loading bay footage," he said. "Walk me through it again."Riku spoke. "Vehicle arrived at eleven forty-two. Parked at the service entrance. Two men went in through the back door at eleven fifty-one. They came out at twelve seventeen with—" a brief pause — "with her. She wasn't conscious. They put her in the back seat, driver's side rear, and the vehicle left at twelve nineteen.""Plates.""None visible. We've run the model against registered vehicles in the city. Forty-three possible matches.""Then check all
THE COST OF SAVING HIM NADIA
Nadia's POV---Nobody spoke in the car.Lev drove. Kane sat beside me in the backseat, jaw set, one hand pressed against his side in a way that told me the wound was screaming even if his face wasn't. I watched him do it and said nothing because I had already said everything there was to say and n
THE COST OF SAVING HIM NO MORE NORMAL ROUTINE
Nadia's POV I don't know how long we sat like that. Him in the chair, me on the couch with my face in my hands, the apartment sitting in a silence that had too many things moving underneath it. I was running calculations I didn't want to be running — exits, options, how fast I could get to my pho
THE COST OF SAVING HIM MAN
Nadia's POV --- Getting him off the ground was its own ordeal. He was heavy in the way that had nothing to do with dead weight — all of it was solid, deliberate, like even his body resisted being helped. He made it to his feet on the second attempt, one hand braced against the car, the other han
THE COST OF SAVING HIM A STRANGER
Nadia's POV --- "Yuck!" I muttered it under my breath, kicking a pebble off the narrow path as I walked. The shortcut through Delvin Road smelled like wet concrete and bad decisions — which was exactly why I never used it. Except tonight my brain decided to betray me. *Take the short route, Na
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