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Chapter 13: Deadly White-Light

Author: IKUENOBE E. KALLIXTUS
last update Last Updated: 2025-08-28 05:35:16
Reid left the utility vehicle behind a broken wall and approached on foot. The night wind swept through the wreckage in a ghostly wail.

The journal entries had noted only the coordinates and a time—now.

Briefly, he surveyed the site. It was a relic of its former self. Broken domes and rusty metal frameworks lay exposed beneath a star-studded sky.

A lone figure emerged from the shadows near the base of an abandoned telescope mount. Reid’s senses snapped to high alert.

It was the last person he expected: Chloe Vaughn.

She looked startlingly different from the portrait the society pages had painted in his mind. They’d lied.

He watched as she picked her way through the ruins and clutter, wearing no tailored gowns or flawless makeup—just a dark, casual dress and an overcoat, her hair tied into a plain ponytail.

This was the real Chloe, the woman with whom he had shared three years of his best life. He thought they had it all until, out of the blue, a brutal betrayal struck—one he never saw
IKUENOBE E. KALLIXTUS

Thank you for following my book. I wrote the first draft of this chapter in between attending to customers at my cybercafé — now it’s yours to explore. Do you think Chloe is innocent as she claimed? Please drop your comments. Find out in the next chapter what happens to Reid as he’s trapped between a ruthless assassin and a woman he’s not sure he can trust. Next chapter's sneak peek: …moved with terrifying purpose, firing controlled bursts toward Bricks’s position, forcing him to keep his head down.

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