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Chapter 55: Breaking News
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The CEO'S Vengeful marriage Chapter 61: Tracing the Signal
# Chapter 61: Tracing the SignalMarcus arrived before eight the next morning, a small evidence bag clutched in one hand, dark circles beneath his eyes suggesting he hadn't slept at all."Show me," Damian said, already reaching for coffee neither of us had properly finished.Marcus set the bag carefully on the kitchen island, a device nearly identical to the one found in Elena's bag resting inside."Embedded in my jacket lining," he said. "The same jacket I wore to the funeral yesterday. Whoever planted it had access sometime in the past several weeks, likely while it was hanging in my apartment or left unattended somewhere I wasn't paying close enough attention.""That's not what has you looking like you haven't slept," Damian said carefully.Marcus's jaw tightened. "No. I took it to a specialist overnight, someone I've used before for exactly this kind of forensic work. She confirmed something the previous consultant didn't have time to check yesterday.""What?" I asked."These devi
The CEO'S Vengeful marriage Chapter 60: The Listening Device
Elena arrived the following morning with a security consultant I didn't recognize, a quiet, methodical woman who spent nearly three hours sweeping the penthouse with equipment that looked more suited to a spy film than an ordinary Tuesday."I need to know if it's someone we trust," Damian said, pacing while the consultant worked. "I need to know now, Elena, not after another funeral or another fire.""I understand," Elena said, though her own composure carried visible strain. "I've had my own office swept as well. If there's a leak, we find it, whatever the source."The consultant finally emerged from Elena's briefcase, holding a small, unassuming device between two gloved fingers, no larger than a button."Found this embedded in the lining of your bag," she said, addressing Elena directly. "Sophisticated. Not something available through typical commercial channels. Whoever planted this had serious resources and serious patience."Elena's face went pale. "That bag never leaves my poss
The CEO'S Vengeful marriage Chapter 59: The service
We changed venues twice more before Thursday, Elena and Marcus working through the night to secure a backup chapel neither of us had mentioned aloud in any conversation Gabriel could possibly have intercepted."We tell no one the actual location until the morning of," Damian said, reviewing the revised security plan at nearly midnight the evening before. "Not Martha, not Lily, not even Elena's own security contractors until they're already en route.""That feels excessive," I said, though exhaustion had long since stripped away my instinct to argue against necessary precaution."Excessive kept us alive at that estate," Marcus said grimly. "I'd rather be excessive than grieving another loss."---The morning of the funeral arrived gray and quiet, a light rain falling steadily as our convoy wound through unfamiliar backroads toward a small stone chapel I hadn't seen until we actually arrived.Security surrounded the property in a discreet perimeter, Marcus's team positioned at every app
The CEO'S Vengeful marriage Chapter 58: Cameras at the Gate
By morning, the story had exploded across every news outlet in the city, Thorne family patriarch's brother dead in mysterious estate fire splashed across headlines with the particular gleeful cruelty reserved for wealthy family tragedies.I watched from the penthouse window as a small crowd of reporters gathered at the base of Thorne Tower, cameras and microphones at the ready, waiting for any glimpse of the family at the center of the story."They've been out there since dawn," Marcus said grimly, joining me at the window. "Security's managing the lobby, but we should assume every entrance is being watched.""How are we supposed to arrange a funeral with that kind of attention?" I asked."Carefully," Damian said, entering the room with fresh bandages on his hands, his expression carrying the particular exhaustion of a man who hadn't properly slept since the fire. "Elena's working on a private venue, somewhere secure enough to keep both the press and whatever Gabriel might attempt at
The CEO'S Vengeful marriage Chapter 57: Questions for the Living
A detective arrived just after nine that morning, her badge catching the fluorescent light as she introduced herself at the foot of Damian's hospital bed."Detective Reyes," she said, pulling out a small notebook. "I'm sorry for your loss, Mr. Thorne. I understand your uncle didn't survive the fire.""No," Damian said quietly, his voice still rough from smoke. "He didn't.""I need to ask you some questions about last night," Detective Reyes said. "The fire marshal's preliminary assessment suggests accelerant was used. This wasn't an accidental fire."I watched Damian's face carefully, understanding immediately the impossible position we'd been thrown into. How much could we safely tell the police without endangering the fragile leverage we still held against Gabriel, without exposing Isabelle's location to further risk, without triggering consequences neither of us could fully predict?"My uncle and I met someone at the estate," Damian said carefully, choosing his words with obvious d
The CEO'S Vengeful marriage Chapter 56: What the Fire Took
The drive to the regional hospital felt like it lasted an eternity, though the clock on the dashboard insisted only forty minutes had passed since Marcus's call.Elena sat beside me, her hand gripping mine tightly, neither of us speaking much beyond the occasional attempt at reassurance that neither of us fully believed."He said Damian was alive," I kept repeating, more to convince myself than to inform her. "He said to come to the hospital, not the morgue. That has to mean something.""It means something," Elena agreed quietly, though her careful tone told me she was bracing for whatever news waited alongside me.---Marcus met us in the emergency room lobby, his face streaked with soot, a bandage wrapped around one forearm, his eyes red rimmed with exhaustion and grief he hadn't yet fully processed."Where is he?" I demanded, already scanning the hallway beyond him."Treatment room four," Marcus said. "Smoke inhalation, some burns on his hands and forearms. The doctors say he'll re
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