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Chapter 56: The Missing Page Hunt
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2026-04-26 21:41:45We did not drive straight back to the estate.
That was Gabriel’s decision, which meant it was the correct one and therefore immediately irritating.
He took the first left, then the bridge road, then doubled through two ugly service lanes behind the market where snow turned grey and every building looked temporary. I sat in the back with the wrapped journal on my la
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VOWS IN THE WAR ROOM Chapter 56: The Missing Page Hunt
We did not drive straight back to the estate.That was Gabriel’s decision, which meant it was the correct one and therefore immediately irritating.He took the first left, then the bridge road, then doubled through two ugly service lanes behind the market where snow turned grey and every building looked temporary. I sat in the back with the wrapped journal on my lap and the receipts tucked into my coat, trying not to reread the same three broken lines in my head until they became prayer or poison.The van followed for four streets.Then vanished.Which was worse.“Did we lose them?” I asked.Gabriel watched the mirror
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The lower market station bank looked like the sort of place secrets would choose if they had grown tired of romance.No grandeur. No stained glass. No elegant old stone pretending history made corruption noble. Just a narrow brick frontage tucked beside a freight office, a faded brass sign, and windows that had given up on charm years ago. Snow gathered in dirty ridges along the curb. The river wind came hard through the lane and made everyone hunch their shoulders as if guilt were weather.Gabriel parked half a block away.“You stay beside me,” he said.“That is becoming your life’s slogan.”“It’s working.”I got out anyway and butt
VOWS IN THE WAR ROOM Chapter 54: The Museum Contact
Old Québec always looked like a place that believed in memory more than mercy.Stone lanes. Winter air. Iron balconies wearing frost like decorations. Tourists came for beauty and left with photographs. People like me arrived looking for ghosts and found administrative hours.The museum sat behind a square of packed snow and bare trees, elegant in the discreet way old money likes best. No banners screaming for relevance. No desperate glass addition pretending to be modern. Just grey stone, tall windows, and the quiet confidence of a building that assumed history would come indoors eventually.Gabriel parked at the side entrance.Julien had stayed back to prepare cover stories, legal buffers, and whatever else lawyers build when other people insist on doing urgent
VOWS IN THE WAR ROOM Chapter 53: Yselle Chooses Strategy
I wore grey because it looked cooperative.Not weak. Not dramatic. Not the color of a woman about to throw a glass or confess to nerves in front of people who collected those things like stamps. Just soft enough to suggest I had thought carefully about tone. Sabine would notice. That was the point.Colette adjusted my collar once, then stepped back.“You look reasonable,” she said.“That sounds like an insult.”“It is insurance.”I glanced at myself in the mirror one last time. Hair pinned simply. No statement jewelry. No bright lipstick. No sharp edges that could be translated into defiance for a room already waiting to call me difficult.“Do I look frightened for the factory?”Colette’s eyes met mine in the glass.“You look like a woman who has learned that fear and intelligence can share the same coat.”“That is almost poetic.”
VOWS IN THE WAR ROOM Chapter 52: The Contract Weapon
Morning came hard and white.Snow had buried the lower hedges and softened the stone paths, but the house itself felt sharper than ever. A place can look beautiful and still behave like a trap. By breakfast, the estate had perfected both.I found Renaud in the morning room with coffee he had forgotten to drink and three phones laid out in a line like surgical tools. Julien stood by the far window reading from a tablet. Gabriel leaned against the wall with that stillness that meant he had been awake longer than any of us and trusted none of the daylight.Colette set down a tray, looked at the men, then at me, then said, “No one is to raise their voice before food. If you intend to destroy one another, do it after eggs.”She left before anyone could pretend the order was unreasonable.Julien glanced up. “Good morning.”“That depends,” I said.He took off his glasses and rubbed the bridge of his nose.
VOWS IN THE WAR ROOM Chapter 51: Sabine’s Counter Story
Sabine did not raise her voice.That was the first thing that made her dangerous.People expect cruelty to come in sharp sounds. They expect slammed doors, pointed fingers, a dramatic reveal. Sabine preferred clean lines. Smooth words. A calm face. She liked damage that could pass for procedure.She stood in the lower sitting room as if she belonged there more than either of us.Renaud was already on his feet.I had only stepped back half a pace, but the distance between him and Sabine changed at once. He did not touch me. He did not need to. His whole body had shifted into that cold alertness I had come to recognize. The kind that made even silence feel armed.“I said get out,” he told her.Sabine closed the door behind herself.“No,” she said. “You said it. I declined.”I folded my arms, though my pulse was still unsteady from the road, the blood, the kiss, the fact that all three no
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Renaud didn’t raise his voice on the stairs.He didn’t need to.He stood over the loosened railing like it had personally offended him, shoulders still, eyes sharp. Gabriel crouched at the bracket again, flashlight angled up, and the metal glittered with those tiny scrat
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