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chapter 41

Author: Saskay
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ELIAS

I had known there was something amiss the minute Cathan's name flashed on my phone.

"A bomb just exploded." That was all the message said.

I was unable to catch a breath for a moment as the words branded themselves into my retina. I sat in my office, the windows behind me causing a jagged shadow of the cityscape.

A bomb? Where?

My fingers shook as I called him. He picked up on the first ring.

"Where?" I snarled.

"Downtown," he answered ominously. "It was the car Louis was in. We got the word right after it happened. It was a hit. A calculated one."

My blood ran ice-cold.

No.

Not him.

I stiffened and bolted upright, the chair crashing to the floor. My heart thrummed in my chest, beating as if struggling to escape its confines. Louis. Sweet Louis whose bruises, both external and internal, had just started healing.

No, this can’t be.

And then, as if by a twisted fate, my phone started buzzing again. A new message. It had no name and no number.

“I have him. If you'd like to get hi
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Strawberryboss
Oh god Elias is really going to kill him now, he killed Ava, good luck getting out alive Aaron
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