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A Stain on the Past

ผู้เขียน: The Mind Surgeon
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Chapter 12

The crimson bloom on Zara's midnight-blue silk was expanding, a mocking flower of ruin.

The waiter's stammered apologies faded into a dull roar in her ears, overshadowed by the sudden, sharp intake of breath from the man standing before her.

Ethan Cole.

His hand had shot out, not to help, but to stop. His fingers, warm and startlingly familiar, had closed over hers, halting her frantic dabbing.

The contact was a lightning strike. It wasn't just the touch; it was the recognition that
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  • The Billionaire's Forgotten Bride    The Extraction

    Chapter 188The black, unmarked helicopter hovered just fifty feet above the churning ocean, its massive searchlight sweeping back and forth like the eye of a predator. The downdraft whipped the sea into a frenzy of white foam, sending freezing spray blasting into the mouth of the cave."Get down!" Marcus roared, throwing himself against the rocky wall of the cave, keeping his weapon trained on the entrance.Zara curled her body completely over Ethan’s chest, trying to shield him from the blinding light and the biting wind. Her heart hammered against her ribs like a trapped bird.This is it, she thought, closing her eyes. Julian Thorne didn't wait. He sent the executioners.But the gunfire never came.Instead of armed hitmen rappelling from the chopper to finish the job, a massive, metallic voice boomed over a loudspeaker, slicing through the roar of the rotors."Viper One, this is Extraction Alpha! Do you have visual on the VIPs? I repeat, do you have visual?"Marcus froze. Slowly, a

  • The Billionaire's Forgotten Bride    The Freezing Depths

    Chapter 187The impact felt like slamming into solid concrete.The icy, black water of the Pacific knocked the air from Zara’s lungs in a violent explosion of bubbles. The cold was absolute, a paralyzing shock that instantly numbed her extremities. She was tumbling, disoriented in the dark, churning depths of the cove.For a terrifying second, she didn’t know which way was up.Then, she felt the heavy drag of the tactical harness she was still desperately clutching.She opened her eyes, the saltwater burning them fiercely. Through the murky gloom, she saw Ethan sinking like a stone. The heavy combat boots and the Kevlar vest beneath his shirt were pulling him rapidly toward the jagged rocks at the bottom of the cove. He wasn't thrashing. He was completely unconscious.Panic, primal and raw, surged through Zara’s veins, burning hotter than the freezing water.She kicked her legs with everything she had, fighting against the brutal downward pull of her waterlogged dress. She reached Eth

  • The Billionaire's Forgotten Bride    The Glass Throne

    Chapter 186"Marcus, the window!" Ethan roared, his voice tearing through the library like thunder.Before Julian could give the order to fire, Ethan pivoted, shoving his massive body entirely in front of Zara to shield her. He didn't aim at Julian. He aimed the Desert Eagle at the massive, floor-to-ceiling glass windows overlooking the ocean.BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!The hand cannon roared, deafening in the enclosed space. The bullets pulverized the reinforced glass. Spiderwebs of cracks instantly exploded across the massive panes, and the violent, howling ocean wind came rushing in, shattering the rest of the glass inward.A hurricane of glass shards rained down on the room."Fire! Put them down!" Julian screamed, shielding his face from the flying debris.The guards opened fire. Automatic gunfire chewed through the antique bookshelves and the mahogany desk."Move!" Marcus bellowed.He grabbed Zara by the arm, dragging her toward the heavy mahogany desk, tossing her behind it just as a lin

  • The Billionaire's Forgotten Bride    Checkmate in the Dark

    Chapter 185The realization hit Zara like a physical blow.Leo.A flashback of the last month hit her. Ethan sitting at her dining room table, a laptop open between him and their four-year-old son. Ethan patiently teaching Leo how to code firewalls, how to isolate radio frequencies, how to lock down a subnet. She had thought they were just playing games. She hadn't realized Ethan was teaching his son how to build digital armor."A four-year-old?" Arthur spat, coughing violently into his hand. "Impossible!""He’s a Cole," Ethan said coldly. "And a Frost. He has his mother’s brilliance. The moment your mercenary bypassed the biometric lock, the bunker's internal AI recognized the anomaly. Leo didn't panic. He accessed the mainframe and initiated a localized electromagnetic pulse."Ethan leaned heavier against Marcus, his breathing growing increasingly shallow, but his grip on the gun remained ironclad."Your detonator is running on a dead frequency, Arthur," Ethan continued. "Your merce

  • The Billionaire's Forgotten Bride    The Ghost Who Walked

    Chapter 184The heavy Desert Eagle didn't waver a single millimeter in Ethan’s grip, despite the violent, ragged trembling of his chest.Zara couldn’t breathe. Her eyes darted from the dark red blood seeping through the bandages beneath Ethan’s black shirt to his ghostly pale face. Dr. Evans had said his heart couldn't take another shock. The shrapnel in his spine was supposed to have paralyzed him. Yet here he was, standing in the devil's den, defying every law of medicine and nature simply because she was in danger."Ethan," Zara choked out, instinctively taking a step toward him."Stay behind me, Zara," Ethan rasped. He didn't look at her. He kept his lethal, steely gaze locked entirely on Arthur Sinclair. But the raw, possessive desperation in his voice made Zara’s heart ache so fiercely she thought it might shatter.Arthur sat perfectly still in his high-backed leather chair. For a fleeting second, genuine shock widened his icy blue eyes. But the Syndicate patriarch was a creatur

  • The Billionaire's Forgotten Bride    The Blood Debt

    Chapter 183Zara stood her ground, her posture rigid. She refused to show an ounce of fear to the monster sitting before her."You're Arthur Sinclair," Zara said, her voice steady.The old man wheezed a laugh, tapping his cane against the floor. "I am. And you are my granddaughter. You have your mother’s stubborn chin, but those eyes... those are Sinclair eyes. The mark of kings.""Don't flatter yourself," Zara spat. "You have no right to call me your granddaughter. You abandoned my mother. You left her to die in poverty, and now you send hitmen to murder my fiancé and threaten my son."Arthur’s smile faded into a thin, grim line. "I did not abandon your mother. She ran away. She fell in love with a weak, pathetic man and refused her birthright. I simply allowed her to experience the consequences of her actions. As for your fiancé..."He leaned forward, his icy blue eyes turning cruel."Ethan Cole was a miscalculation. I ordered Julian to ensure your engagement five years ago was term

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