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Chapter 36
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2026-07-04 17:23:53
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THE SHOT THAT CHANGED EVERYTHINGThe safety clicked.A tiny sound.Almost impossible to hear.But Lucien heard it.His instincts reacted before his mind did.He spun.Wrapping one arm around Aurora’s waist.Throwing both of them toward the floor.Bang!The rifle fired.The bullet tore through the air.Alexander shouted.“Down!”The round slammed into the wall where Lucien had been standing a second earlier.Concrete exploded.Dust filled the nursery.Lucien rolled to one knee.His pistol was already in his hand.Two shots answered the attack.Bang! Bang!The shadow disappeared into the smoke.Vivienne burst through the ruined doorway moments later.Breathing hard.Knife in one hand.Pistol in the other.“I’m guessing I missed the reunion.”Aurora almost laughed.Almost.Lucien looked behind her.“Where’s Victor?”Vivienne’s smile vanished.“He isn’t with me.”Silence.Aurora’s heart dropped.“What happened?”“I found his tunnel.”She swallowed.“It was empty.”Lucien frowned.“What do
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THE FIRST CHOICE02:59The countdown glowed above the tunnels.Red.Merciless.Nobody moved.Nobody spoke.Aurora stared at the three paths before her.Alexander.Lucien.Vivienne.Three names.Three choices.Lucien’s grip on her hand tightened.“We’re not separating.”Sebastian’s voice drifted through the speakers.“You don’t have a choice.”Victor’s distant gunfire echoed somewhere beyond the steel walls.Then…Silence.Aurora’s heart lurched.“Grandfather…”No answer.Vivienne stepped closer to the center of the chamber.Her sharp eyes studied the walls.The ceiling.The floor.“There has to be another mechanism.”She ran her fingers over the concrete.Nothing.Lucien joined her.“If Sebastian built this…”“…he built it with only one solution.”Aurora hated that he was probably right.The countdown continued.02:21Sebastian laughed softly.“I expected better from all of you.”Lucien ignored him.Instead, he looked at Aurora.“If we separate…”He paused.“…we stick to one rule.”Sh
THE HEIRESS THEY BURRIED Chapter 38
INTO THE LION’S DENRain hammered against the helicopters.Lightning split the night sky.The island grew larger with every passing second.No one spoke.No one needed to.Every person aboard knew the truth.Some of them would not leave this island alive.The pilot’s voice crackled through the headset.“One minute to insertion.”Lucien stood.His movements were calm.Controlled.He checked his weapon.Then another.Finally, his eyes found Elara.“Stay beside me.”She nodded.“I will.”Victor loaded a fresh magazine into his pistol.Vivienne tightened the knife strapped to her thigh.The atmosphere inside the helicopter was suffocating.Then…The aircraft banked sharply.Below them, waves crashed violently against jagged rocks.Hidden between two cliffs was the entrance to the tunnel.Almost invisible beneath the storm.Lucien smiled faintly.“Good.”Victor frowned.“What?”“The weather.”Everyone looked at him.“The storm is interfering with their thermal imaging.”Vivienne understood
THE HEIRESS THEY BURRIED Chapter 37
THE IMPOSSIBLE WARNINGThe video ended.Silence.Nobody moved.Nobody breathed.Four words echoed through the command room.Don’t trust Alexander.Elara stared at the blank screen.Her heart pounded painfully against her ribs.No.That couldn’t be right.Alexander was her brother.He had warned her.Protected her.Risked Sebastian’s wrath to tell her the truth.Hadn’t he?Victor’s hands trembled violently.His eyes remained fixed on the phone.“She’s alive…”His voice cracked.“My daughter is alive.”For the first time in decades…The powerful patriarch looked like nothing more than a grieving father.Lucien gently took the phone from Elara’s shaking hands.He replayed the video.Once.Twice.Three times.Watching every movement.Every blink.Every pause.Vivienne observed him quietly.“What do you see?”Lucien didn’t answer immediately.Instead, he paused the video just before it ended.He enlarged the background.A concrete wall.A rusted pipe.A faded symbol painted near the ceilin
THE HEIRESS THEY BURRIED Chapter 36
THE GHOST WHO RETURNEDNobody spoke.Nobody dared.The room remained frozen beneath the weight of six impossible words.“Your mother wasn’t their first victim.”The silence stretched.Heavy.Oppressive.Elara slowly lowered the phone.Her fingers were trembling.Her heartbeat refused to slow.Victor looked as though the world had collapsed beneath his feet.“Celeste…”He whispered her name again.Disbelief filled his eyes.Hope followed.Then fear.Lucien stepped toward Elara.“Are you alright?”She looked at him.Tried to answer.Couldn’t.Too much had happened.Too many truths.Too many lies.Finally, she nodded.“I think so.”But they both knew she wasn’t.Not even close.Vivienne crossed her arms.Her sharp eyes settled on Victor.“Dead people don’t usually make phone calls.”Victor didn’t react.His mind was somewhere else.Twenty-six years in the past.Lucien’s security chief entered the room.A tablet rested in his hands.“We traced part of the signal.”Everyone turned.“It las
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THE HEIR MUST STAND ALONETHE HEIR MUST STAND ALONE.The message glowed on Aurora’s phone.Nobody spoke.Nobody even reached for the device.It vanished three seconds later.The screen returned to black.Silence settled over the damaged house.Alexander was the first to speak.“What does that even mean?”No one answered.Because no one knew.Or perhaps…Someone did.Aurora slowly looked toward Victor.The old man had gone unnaturally still.He wasn’t confused.He was remembering.“You’ve seen that message before.”It wasn’t a question.Victor closed his eyes.“Yes.”The confession sent a chill through the room.Lucien looked at him sharply.“When?”“Twenty-seven years ago.”Aurora frowned.“Before I was born?”Victor nodded.“The Archive always had one final protocol.”Ross stepped closer.“What protocol?”Victor took a slow breath.“If the Consortium ever fell…”“If every safeguard failed…”“If corruption reached the highest level…”“The heir would be forced to finish the journey alo
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