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Chapter 175: Diana's Breakdown pt 3
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2026-05-04 04:55:48
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The Billionaire’s Discarded Bride Chapter 186: The Rescue
Bella POVThe building smelled of rust and old machine oil. At 6:10 AM, the silence was heavy and thick—the kind that makes every footstep feel like a shout.I had never worn a tactical vest before. It sat heavy on my shoulders, but I was grateful for the weight. It gave me something concrete to focus on that wasn't the image of Tom crying my name into his knees.Agent Reyes's team split at the fence line. Four agents headed for the freight entrance. A single agent named Torres, who moved with the kind of silence that comes from years of training, led Caleb and me toward the west fire escape. The old metal vibrated with every step, but Torres moved up it without making a sound. Caleb was right behind me. On the third landing, he placed his hand briefly against the small of my back—not pushing me, just letting me know he was there.We reached the second-floor door at 6:14.Torres checked his earpiece. He held up one finger, then two, waiting for the signal from Reyes.I could hear my
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Caleb POV The drone footage arrived at 5:40 AM, grainy and grey in the early morning light. Lena showed us the video frame by frame. The building was a large, dark rectangle in the industrial district. It had metal walls and a rusty entrance. The second-floor windows were covered with cardboard. The heat scan showed someone in the corner room on the second floor—likely Tom and a guard—and another heat signature near the stairs. "A guard on the stairs," Reyes said. "And at least one person in the room with Tom." "That's at least two people," Lena added. "Maybe three if there is a guard on the ground floor watching the doors." I studied the building layout again. The guard at the stairs was a problem because he could see anyone coming from the elevator or the main entrance. Coming in through the front would be too slow and loud. If we used the back freight entrance, we would still have to get up those stairs without being seen. "There is a fire escape on the west wall," Diana said
The Billionaire’s Discarded Bride Chapter 184: Bella's Breaking Point2
Bella POV"Why won't they use the elevator?" I asked.Diana glanced at me. "Positioning," she said. "The moment those doors open, they are exposed to both sets of stairs at the same time. Plus, an elevator announces itself. Between the mechanical noise and the wait time, it's too risky. No one trying to hold a position uses an elevator if they have stairs.""Agreed," Caleb said."We have to go up both sets of stairs at the same time," I said. "One team for each. If we only use one and they hear us, they will take him down the other way.""That takes perfect timing," Reyes said. "My team can do it.""Lena’s team takes the second stairs," Caleb said. Reyes paused for a second then continued. "My agent will take the second stairs," she said. "Lena’s team will stay outside and block the exits."Caleb thought about it and decided it was okay. "Fine," he said."The rooms," I said, looking at the map again. "There are three possible rooms on the second floor. We can't check them one by one.
The Billionaire’s Discarded Bride Chapter 183: Bella's Breaking Point
Bella POV I had been powerless before. I knew exactly how it felt—the way it stays in your bones and tells you that nothing you do matters. I felt it on my wedding night when my family told me to disappear, I felt it when I was working odd jobs just to survive and I promised myself back then that I would never feel that way again. But here it was. The room was quiet at 4 AM. Reyes’s team spoke in low voices. Diana was on the phone in the hall. Caleb sat two feet away. That small distance was the only thing keeping me from falling apart. I watched the second video again. Tom had his hand flat on the floor. He did that whenever he was thinking hard, like he was trying to steady himself. He was scared but trying not to show it. Seeing a five-year-old try that hard to be brave broke my heart every time. I had taught him to be brave, but I never wanted him to need it for this. "Bella." Maya was suddenly beside me, her voice quiet and steady. It was the tone she used when she was be
The Billionaire’s Discarded Bride Chapter 182: The Hunt Begins2
Caleb pov "Functioning," I said. "Which is all she'll allow herself to be until he's back." Diana nodded once, slowly, like that was something she understood completely. At 2 AM, Reyes's analyst found something. The background audio from the video—the mechanical cycling sound—matched a specific type of industrial HVAC unit used in warehousing complexes built between 2008 and 2015. There were fourteen such complexes in the city. Lena's team was already cross-referencing those against the partial plate's travel radius from the school. "We're narrowing it to four sites," Lena said, spreading satellite imagery across the table. "Here, here, here, and here. All within the plausible travel window from the school. All partially or fully vacant." "The HVAC unit narrows it further," Diana said, leaning over the imagery. "That specific model runs louder in units over fifteen thousand square feet. It's not the sound of a small warehouse." Lena pointed at two of the four sites. "These two
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Bella POVThe morning after my breakdown, I woke up with swollen eyes and a pounding headache. Maya was already in the kitchen making coffee when I emerged, and she took one look at my face before sliding a mug across the counter."You look like hell," she said bluntly."I feel worse." I wrapped my
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