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Chapter 61

Penulis: Richard Griffith
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My father’s whisper echoed in my head long after I left the hospital.

It followed me through traffic, through red lights and rain-smeared glass, through the silence of my apartment.

I sat on the edge of my bed, staring at nothing, hearing those words again and again until they stopped sounding like a sentence and started sounding like a confession.

Daniel wasn’t running. He was bleeding quietly, deliberately, so others could breathe.

That truth landed slowly, painfully, like a bruise forming beneath the skin. Every cold word he’d spoken to me. Every wall he’d built. The confession. The Will. The Swiss account. It wasn’t betrayal.

It was bait.

I opened my laptop with shaking hands. The Swiss account number from the Will stared back at me, cold and precise.

Now I looked again, slower. Carefully. Like the truth might flinch if I moved too fast.

I traced transactions from the numbered Swiss account, my hands steady even as my heart raced. Small transfers at first. Then patterns. Names I d
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  • The Heart Never Forgets   Chapter 62

    I was still staring at the wallet when the truth finally hit me.Daniel’s head of security.The man who had stood beside him for years. The man who knew his schedules, his weaknesses, his escape routes. The man Daniel trusted with his life.I closed the wallet slowly, my fingers numb.Mia looked at my face and went still. “Jane,” she whispered, fear blooming all over again. “What is it?”I couldn’t answer.My hands shook as I slipped the wallet back into my bag. The name on the ID felt heavier than any weapon. I had always believed betrayal came loudly, shouting, anger, and obvious cracks. But this one had been quiet.And that made it worse.I didn’t call Daniel right away. I needed to think. I needed space to breathe, to understand how deep this went.Mia was safe now. I had dropped her at a quiet place far from the city, somewhere Pierce’s reach wouldn’t easily stretch. She had clung to my arm before stepping out of the car, eyes still haunted, voice barely holding.“Please,” she ha

  • The Heart Never Forgets   Chapter 61

    My father’s whisper echoed in my head long after I left the hospital.It followed me through traffic, through red lights and rain-smeared glass, through the silence of my apartment.I sat on the edge of my bed, staring at nothing, hearing those words again and again until they stopped sounding like a sentence and started sounding like a confession.Daniel wasn’t running. He was bleeding quietly, deliberately, so others could breathe.That truth landed slowly, painfully, like a bruise forming beneath the skin. Every cold word he’d spoken to me. Every wall he’d built. The confession. The Will. The Swiss account. It wasn’t betrayal.It was bait.I opened my laptop with shaking hands. The Swiss account number from the Will stared back at me, cold and precise.Now I looked again, slower. Carefully. Like the truth might flinch if I moved too fast.I traced transactions from the numbered Swiss account, my hands steady even as my heart raced. Small transfers at first. Then patterns. Names I d

  • The Heart Never Forgets   Chapter 60

    The Will sat on my kitchen table like a confession no one wanted to explain.Daniel’s name was printed neatly at the top. The date – yesterday. The same day he had walked into the police station and confessed to arson as calmly as if he were ordering coffee.I stared at it until the words blurred.Swiss account. Numbered. Anonymous.Preparing to flee.That was the story the document told. Clean and logicalI pressed my palms flat against the paper, as if I could force it to change. As if I could squeeze another meaning out of it. But the truth, at least the version staring back at me, was simple.Daniel had planned an exit.While I stood here, defending him. While my nonprofit bled donors and trust. While Pierce smiled on television and called Daniel “a tragic cautionary tale.”I laughed once, sharp and hollow. “Of course,” I whispered to the empty room. “Of course you did.”The kettle screamed on the stove. I’d forgotten I’d turned it on. I shut it off and let the silence rush back i

  • The Heart Never Forgets   CHAPTER 59

    I still didn’t understand why Daniel surrendered.The question sat in my chest like a stone, heavy and unmoving, from the moment the news alerts exploded across my phone. Every channel. Every headline.BILLIONAIRE CONFESSES TO ARSON.DANIEL LOGAN TURNS HIMSELF IN.I stood in my kitchen, the kettle screaming on the stove, forgotten. The room smelled faintly of burnt metal. My hands were shaking so badly I had to grip the counter just to stay upright.Why?He could have run. He had the money. The connections. The exits. Daniel Logan never cornered himself, ever. And yet, there he was, walking calmly into handcuffs, as if this was exactly where he meant to be.The image replayed in my mind over and over. His eyes, steady. Almost gentle. And the way his mouth formed that single word for me as they led him away.Run.The kettle boiled dry before I even noticed.The detention facility I went to was cold in a way that had nothing to do with temperature. Everything echoed: footsteps, voices,

  • The Heart Never Forgets   Chapter 58

    “This isn’t a threat,” Aaron had said. “It’s an execution.”Those words followed me into the building.They clung to my skin, my breath, and my thoughts as I pushed past the broken entrance and stepped inside.The building smelled like old smoke and wet concrete.That was the first thing that hit me as I stepped inside – not fire, not danger, but memory. Burned paper. Rusted metal. A place that had already died once and refused to stay buried.My pulse thudded in my ears as I moved deeper into the structure, every footstep echoing too loudly. The flashlight in my hand trembled, cutting through dust and shadows. This was the building Pierce was supposed to destroy again.The past, erased twice.I swallowed and checked my phone. No signal. Of course.The investigator had stayed outside, insisting this part was too risky. I hadn’t argued. Some truths felt like they were meant to be faced alone.That was when I saw the gasoline cans.Three of them. Bright red. Carefully lined up near the

  • The Heart Never Forgets   CHAPTER 57

    I told my father I would be back.The words tasted hollow as I said them, like a promise made with fingers crossed behind my back. He lay there in the hospital bed, smaller than I remembered, his eyes tired but sharp with fear.He nodded, squeezing my hand as if he wanted to hold me there, to keep me from walking straight into whatever fire Pierce was planning next.“I need to stop him,” I said quietly. My father swallowed. “Be careful, Jane.”I didn’t trust myself to answer, so I just turned and left.The moment the hospital doors slid shut behind me, the weight crashed down again. Pierce is planning another fire. The words replayed in my head, over and over, like a match striking again and again, refusing to go out.I should have gone straight to Daniel.That was the logical choice. He had the resources. The connections. The experience of fighting Pierce and surviving it. And yet, as I stood in the parking lot, keys shaking in my hand, doubt crept in.What if Pierce was right?What

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