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one night to steal my heart chapter twenty
Elowen POV"Absolutely not."I said it before I'd even fully processed the words on his screen, my voice sharper than I intended, but the idea of Caspian walking into some private meeting with a man capable of stealing forty three million dollars and possibly worse made every protective instinct in me flare at once."Elowen, I have to go. If I ignore this, he'll find another way to force my hand, and I'd rather control when and where that happens.""He said come alone. Do you have any idea how many ways that sentence could end badly for you?""I know exactly how it could end. That's why I'm not going without protection stationed nearby, even if he doesn't see them." Caspian was already standing, already moving toward the study door with the restless energy of a man who'd made up his mind before the conversation even started. "But I need to hear what he wants directly. If there's a chance he's willing to negotiate, to walk away quietly instead of dragging this into a public fight that
one night to steal my heart chapter nineteen
Caspian POVDawn broke over the estate while Reyes and I stood in the security office reviewing footage that told us nothing except how carefully whoever we were hunting had covered their tracks."Nobody clocked in or out who shouldn't have," Reyes said, rubbing a hand over his tired eyes. "Every guard on that convoy has worked for me for years. I'd stake my reputation on every one of them.""Someone told them where we were going, Reyes. That's not a coincidence I'm willing to explain away.""I know. I'm not defending anyone blindly. I'm telling you what the logs show." He pulled up another screen, cross referencing timestamps against phone records his team had voluntarily submitted for review. "There's one thing that doesn't add up, though. A call was placed from inside the convoy vehicle, twelve minutes before we reached the gate. Encrypted, routed through a relay I can't trace without a warrant.""Who was in that vehicle?"Reyes hesitated, and I already knew before he said it that
one night to steal my heart chapter eighteen
Elowen POVCaspian reached the door before I did, throwing it open with a force that made the hinges groan.There was nothing there. No person, no obvious threat, just the quiet dark of my front porch and the distant hum of the city beyond the security lights Reyes's team had installed two days earlier. For one brief, dizzying moment, I let myself hope it had been an empty threat, a bluff meant to terrify without substance behind it.Then Caspian's flashlight swept across the doormat, and his entire body went rigid.A single toy airplane sat propped against the door frame. Noah's favorite, the same blue and silver model he carried everywhere, the one I'd tucked into his backpack that very morning for his after school program.Except Noah was upstairs, asleep, and his backpack was hanging exactly where I'd left it, by the coat closet.My knees nearly gave out. "That's not possible. I checked his bag this morning. It was in there.""Someone's been inside our house," Caspian said, voice
one night to steal my heart chapter seventeen
Elowen POVMy studio's phone hadn't stopped ringing since the statement went public, but not for the reasons I'd hoped.I sat in my small office above the design studio, staring at a spreadsheet that grew emptier with every passing hour. Three more clients had emailed overnight, each one wrapped in careful, apologetic language that boiled down to the same message. We can't be associated with this story right now. My assistant, Farrah, hovered in the doorway with a stack of messages she clearly didn't want to hand over."How bad?" I asked."Six more cancellations since yesterday." She set the messages down gently, like they might explode. "Two press requests asking for exclusive interviews. And a call from a company claiming they represent a tabloid willing to pay for photos of Noah."My stomach turned. "Tell them no. Tell all of them no.""Already did." Farrah hesitated in the doorway. "Elowen, I have to ask. Are we going to survive this? Financially, I mean. I have rent to make too."
one night to steal my heart chapter sixteen
Caspian POVI stared at Reyes for a long moment, certain I'd misheard him."Say that again.""The transfer, sir. Authorized under your father's digital signature. Twelve million dollars, moved into an offshore account two days after he passed." Reyes's voice was careful, measured, the tone of a man delivering news he knew would detonate something. "Your father was already gone when that authorization went through."The room tilted slightly. I sat down on the arm of the couch before my legs made the decision for me, Elowen's hand finding my shoulder without either of us discussing it, grounding me in a way I desperately needed."That's not possible," I said. "Signatures like that require biometric verification. A retinal scan, a fingerprint. He would have had to be alive to authorize it.""Unless someone had access to his credentials before he died and simply waited," Reyes said. "Or unless someone found a way to override the verification system entirely. Either way, sir, someone moved
one night to steal my heart Chapter fifteen
Elowen POVCaspian's lawyers arrived at seven the next morning, three of them in dark suits, moving through my living room with the brisk efficiency of people who billed by the hour and had clearly done this exact kind of damage control before.I sat on my couch in yesterday's clothes, Noah still asleep upstairs, watching strangers discuss my life like a case file while Caspian paced by the window, phone pressed to his ear, voice low and controlled in the way I was beginning to recognize as barely contained fury."We have two options," the lead lawyer, a sharp faced woman named Priscilla Okafor, said, setting a folder down on my coffee table. "We can attempt to identify the sender before the deadline and pursue legal action, though forty eight hours is an aggressive timeline for that kind of trace. Or we can get ahead of it.""Meaning what?" I asked."Meaning Mr. Ashford releases a controlled statement confirming paternity on his own terms, before whoever sent this email has the chanc
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