All Chapters of The Ruthless Elite : Chapter 11 - Chapter 14

Smoke curled through the shattered corridors of Ashridge’s eastern wing, laced with the sharp tang of burning metal and scorched data cores. The alarms had long since faded into a low, pulsing hum that echoed like a heartbeat through the smoldering ruins. Damien Voss led the way, every inch of his body tensed like a coiled wire ready to snap. Behind him, Layla and Lucien dragged Julian between them, his blood soaking through the remnants of his tactical vest. Celine stayed close, one hand clenched over the black box drive Damien had thrust into her care moments before the detonation.They had barely escaped the data vault.Aria was still inside.Damien’s mind raced as he navigated the collapsing infrastructure. The AI system had activated a lockdown protocol, triggered not by the Black King but by Aria herself. She had sealed them out to seal herself in. And the voice—that chilling whisper that said, "You’re too late"—still clung to the edges of his mind l

The wind howled through the forest, bending the trees like fragile reeds, as the storm outside raged on. Inside the Voss estate, there was a tense stillness, a growing sense of inevitability. The betrayal, the secrets, and the truths that had been buried for far too long were rising to the surface, threatening to tear apart everything that had once been.Aria stood at the window, her gaze fixed on the red moon hanging low in the sky. It was the same moon that had loomed over her family’s death. The same one her mother had spoken of in whispered, urgent warnings before she was silenced forever. Now, it felt like the harbinger of a reckoning.The weight of what she had learned in the hidden chamber beneath the estate pressed down on her chest. Cassian Voss—Damien’s father—had been the architect of the destruction of her family. He had ordered the fire, the slaughter, and the bloodshed that had left her an orphan. Her mother had tried to stop it, had tried to destroy the Crimson Circle f