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Chapter 110-A HARDER SILENCE.

Author: D.Moses
last update Last Updated: 2025-07-31 20:14:52

The forest didn’t feel like safety anymore.

It felt like a holding place, like the breath between two screams. Every branch was a surveillance line. Every shadow waited to turn into a threat.

Anaïs stood with her back against a moss-covered rock, her arms wrapped tight around the child. She wasn’t even sure when the trembling had started—hers or the child’s—but it hadn’t stopped since Julien vanished into the smoke. Since they heard the last of his voice on that comm. Since Cassian pulled her through the trees with blood on his hands and no words in his mouth.

No one said Julien’s name.

Not even Maris.

The silence was harder than crying.

Cassian paced a narrow perimeter around them, his shirt still soaked through with sweat, blood, and dirt. He hadn’t stopped moving since they set camp. There wasn’t much to call a camp—just a patch of flattened leaves beneath a jutting rock face, concealed from above. The rain had passed hours ago, but everything was damp. Their clothes. Their skin. T
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  • Twice His Wife   Chapter 110-A HARDER SILENCE.

    The forest didn’t feel like safety anymore.It felt like a holding place, like the breath between two screams. Every branch was a surveillance line. Every shadow waited to turn into a threat.Anaïs stood with her back against a moss-covered rock, her arms wrapped tight around the child. She wasn’t even sure when the trembling had started—hers or the child’s—but it hadn’t stopped since Julien vanished into the smoke. Since they heard the last of his voice on that comm. Since Cassian pulled her through the trees with blood on his hands and no words in his mouth.No one said Julien’s name.Not even Maris.The silence was harder than crying.Cassian paced a narrow perimeter around them, his shirt still soaked through with sweat, blood, and dirt. He hadn’t stopped moving since they set camp. There wasn’t much to call a camp—just a patch of flattened leaves beneath a jutting rock face, concealed from above. The rain had passed hours ago, but everything was damp. Their clothes. Their skin. T

  • Twice His Wife   Chapter 109- ASHES DO NOT LIE.

    They buried Julien just after dusk.No words. No markers. Just a cairn of stones under a hollowed pine, deep in the northern wood where the trees stood close and the air held still. Cassian did most of the digging. Anaïs placed the first stone. The child didn’t speak, didn’t cry—she just held Maris’s hand tightly, her face locked in that too-old stillness that no child should wear.“I thought he’d make it,” Cassian said, finally. His voice was rough, not from grief but from the dry crack of smoke that still clung to their lungs. “He always said he would.”“He did,” Anaïs said quietly. “Just not in the way we wanted.”The fire had taken the cabin. The last safehouse. The final line. But the archive drop hadn’t been stopped. The story was out. Too many people had seen it now. The faces of the missing. The contracts. The labs. The experiments that were never called by name.Some governments denied it. Others went silent. A few issued vague promises of internal review.But people were ask

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