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Chapter 8
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2025-10-27 05:16:11
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The Secret Billionaire Heiress Strikes Back Chapter 226
Chapter 226— The Other BoyDante didn't stop looking.He couldn't. His body was begging him to stop — his ribs were a sheet of fire, his shoulder had gone past pain into something numb and wrong, and every breath felt like it was being dragged through broken glass. But a man doesn't stop looking for his child. There is no pain in the world big enough to make him stop. So Dante pushed through the churning market on legs that didn't want to hold him, one arm wrapped around his own middle, turning in circles, searching every gap, every face, every small moving shape."RAEL!" His voice was shredded now, raw from screaming. "RAEL! Where are you! RAEL!"The crowd was in chaos around him. Something had happened near the toy stalls, some commotion, people shouting and pointing toward the river path, a fruit stand knocked over, somebody saying the word *police*. Dante couldn't make sense of any of it. The whole world had narrowed down to one thing. Find him. F
The Secret Billionaire Heiress Strikes Back Chapter 225
Chapter 225R understood everything in about four seconds.He was good at understanding things quickly. He'd always been good at it. And so when the biggest man he had ever seen scooped him up out of the scary man's hands and held him tight against a chest like a wall, and said, in a voice rough with fear and relief, *"I've got you, I've got you, you're safe, I've got you"* — R understood.These were the uncles.Rhysian's uncles. Uncle P and Uncle O. The horse and the knight. R had seen them a dozen times from across the park, two big men who watched over his friend, his brother, the boy with his same face. He knew exactly who they were.And they thought he was Rhysian.He could see it in their faces, close up now for the first time. The one holding him — Uncle O, it had to be, the grumpy one, except he didn't look grumpy now, he looked like he might cry — kept touching R's cap, his shoulder, his back, checking him over, saying his b
The Secret Billionaire Heiress Strikes Back Chapter 224
Chapter 224R's face changed then. Dante saw it happen, saw the exact moment the boy understood this wasn't a normal grown-up doing a normal thing, saw the confusion crack open into fear. R's mouth opened. His legs kicked. He twisted in the man's grip and his cap slipped and his small voice cut through the market noise, high and thin and terrified."PAPA!""RAEL!"Dante was ten feet away. Eight. He could almost reach them. He threw himself the last of the distance——and someone stepped back out of the shifting crowd, a big man with a crate, not part of it, just an ordinary frightened person getting out of the way, and his shoulder caught Dante square in the chest.Dante went down.It wasn't even a hard hit. On any other day it would have been nothing, a bump, a stumble he'd have shrugged off without breaking stride. But his ribs were still cracked and his balance was still wrong and his body had already spent everything it had, and the
The Secret Billionaire Heiress Strikes Back Chapter 223
Chapter 223 — The GrabThe afternoon was ordinary, right up until it wasn't.Dante had taken R to the riverside market on a Saturday, the way he'd promised. It was the busy one, the good one, with stalls packed tight along the water and a crowd thick enough that you had to hold hands to stay together. There was a man who sold roasted corn. There was a woman with painted kites on long strings. And near the far end, past the fruit sellers, there was a toy stall that R had been talking about all week, because it had the little dinosaurs. The toy ones. The three-horned kind."Can we see the dinosaurs now?" R asked, for the fourth time, tugging at Dante's good hand."Soon," Dante said. "Stay close. Hold on."His ribs ached. They always ached now, a dull deep burn that woke up whenever he did too much, and walking slow through a thick crowd with a five-year-old was apparently enough to do it. His shoulder was worse. The doctors had said six weeks minimum, an
The Secret Billionaire Heiress Strikes Back Chapter 222
Chapter 222"All of it. I want to give the money back and walk away and never think about Dante Archer or Ghost or that race again." He turned from the window. "I've made enough. I don't need this. I especially don't need to be the man standing in the open field when a storm like Whisper119 comes through.""Then give the money back," Sable said.Marcello laughed, and it wasn't a good laugh."That's the problem," he said. "I already tried. I told Miles the price went up, hoping he'd walk. He didn't walk. He fired me instead." He sat back down heavily. "He's gone around me. Hired his own people. I don't know who, I don't know how many, and I don't control a single thing they do anymore. The one good thing about running the job myself was that I kept it quiet and I kept it clean. Now there's a rich, angry, reckless man with no leash on him, throwing money at whoever will take it, and I have no idea what he's going to do or when."Sable considered that. "So the
The Secret Billionaire Heiress Strikes Back Chapter 221
Chapter 221— The Woman in GreenSable did not believe in ghosts.She believed in cameras. She believed in key cards and timestamps and the small, boring details people forgot to cover when they were busy covering the big ones. In fifteen years of doing this work, she had never once found a true dead end. Every door opened, if you were patient and mean enough with it, and Sable was both.So when Marcello told her someone had reached into his timing system on race night and walked out clean, she didn't say *impossible*. She said, "Give me the footage," and got to work.It took her four days.The control booth at the King's Race was supposed to be locked down tight. Only cleared people got in — timing crew, two of Marcello's own men, the event coordinator. Every one of them wore a badge, and every badge was logged, and Sable had all the logs.The logs said nothing was wrong. Every entry matched a name. Every name matched a face.That was t
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