The CEO'S secretary 의 모든 챕터: 챕터 61 - 챕터 63

ELIAS’S POVI should’ve known he’d find her first.The road wound into the outskirts empty, except for the rain and the car I recognized immediately. My father’s. Black, gleaming, BMW. It sat like a shadow against the mist.I stepped out before the driver could reach the handle. The ground was slick, the air cut clean through my coat. My breath came out white.They were already facing each other Chloe, standing her ground with that drive clutched tight in her hand, my father was calm like the world still turned at his command. Gavin lingered close, protective. Nina’s eyes darted towards me the second I appeared, and in that brief glance, I saw relief and terror both.My father turned slowly, as if he’d been expecting me all along.“Elias.”I walked toward him, my shoes sinking slightly in the mud. “You left me at the hotel.”His mouth curved in that faint, familiar way amusement laced with reproach. “You were never one to wait patiently.”“I wasn’t supposed to,” I said evenly. “You w

CHLOE’S POVThe tunnel swallowed us whole.One minute, it was shouts ….. boots grinding against gravel, engines revving, orders flying through rain and the next, silence. Only the echo of our footsteps in the dark. The air smelled of rust and rain and fear. Gavin’s flashlight flickered over the curved walls, throwing our shadows long and distorted across the stone.Elias was ahead of us silent, moving like a storm held together by restraint. He hadn’t said a word since the moment the bullets started. He didn’t have to. His presence alone cut through the chaos, the kind that made people move faster, think sharper.Nina stumbled behind me, clutching her arm. Gavin caught her before she fell. “You okay?”“Just grazed,” she hissed. “Keep moving.”I turned back to Elias. “How far does this tunnel go?”He didn’t look back. “Far enough if you don’t stop.”His voice was steady, cold in that razor-edged face that he always wore when everything else was falling apart. But even in the dim ligh