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Kai and Marcus moved closer to the bank of computer screens. The lead tech a tired looking woman pointed at a map. “We have a rough area,” she said. “Her phone connected to three nearby towers after she disappeared. That gives us a circle about five kilometres in the industrial area south of the river.” “That’s a big area,” Kai said. “It is,” the tech agreed. “So we look for other clues.” She showed them video from traffic cameras. “A white van that matches the partial plate we found drives through that area, then disappears near a freight terminal.” She tapped the screen. “That narrows it down, but not enough.” A junior analyst added, “The guy who called used tricks. The number was masked and routed through lots of servers. It’s probably VoIP or a burner. That means the caller’s location could be faked.” “So the phone signal might be fake?” Marcus asked. “Yes,” the tech said. “But even if the phone was faked, the van and camera pictures are real. We must check both poss

“We’ve got a hit,” she said Both of them turned when the lead analyst stepped forward, tablet in hand she continued “A clear CCTV sweep from a toll cam and a service-station camera.” She set the tablet down and tapped the clip. Grainy footage filled screen the white van, the same that took lena, idling at a lone highway service area. The timestamp blinked in the corner two hours after the abduction. Kai leaned in so close the glow painted his cheekbones. “Where is that?” he asked. “Not here,” the analyst said. “It’s the Kestrel corridor about an hour and a half outside the city, toward the northern county. There’s a stretch of road that runs into a forestry belt. The van shows filling at pump three at 18:12, then pulling into a lay-by off Exit 17 at 18:37. After that, it disappears from public cams and reappears an hour later on a dirt track near the edge of Millford Forest.” She flipped to a map and overlai

The convoy roared down the stretch of asphalt that bled into the shadowed edge of the forest. Black SUVs ate the road, their tinted windows hiding men with cold eyes and steady hands. Inside the lead car, Kai sat forward, one hand gripping his knee, the other pressed to his phone. His jaw was clenched so hard a vein pulsed at his temple, the tendons in his neck visible as if he were carved from stone. Marcus sat across from him, arms folded, calm only on the surface his eyes, sharp and restless, flicked from Kai to the blur of trees outside. “Have they run the face yet?” Kai’s voice cracked through the air, low and dangerous. One of his men turned from the front seat, tablet glowing in his hands. “Yes, sir. The system is analyzing against national databases now. No confirmed ID yet, but we’ve narrowed the search to local criminal files. We’ll know soon.” Kai’s hand tightened into a fist. His thoughts were a storm, Lena’s face flashing between shadows and fear. Every update tha

It had been three days since the rescue, three long torturous days since Kai carried Lena’s bleeding body out of that cursed forest. He still remembered the way her weight had felt in his arms, terrifyingly limp, her skin cold, her breaths faint. He had thought no, he had known that he was losing her. The rush to the hospital had been a blur of sirens, shouting doctors, and the metallic sting of blood filling his senses. Lena was barely clinging to life when they wheeled her into surgery. Kai could only stand outside the operating room, his clothes stained scarlet,Every second felt like a blade dragging across his chest. Then the words hit him like thunder placental abruption. The bullet wound had triggered a violent separation of the placenta. Their baby’s oxygen supply was failing. The doctors said they had to move quicklyif they waited, they might lose both mother and child. Kai couldn’t breathe. His mind screamed, Save them. Save them both. But all he could do was watch the red

He was left alone as Marcus calmly approached him “She didn’t recognize you,too” he said softly, not as a question, but as a fact. Kai’s was silent for a while trying to process everything his throat working as he tried to find words. “She looked at me like I was no one,” he admitted, his voice hoarse. “Like everything we’ve been through… doesn’t exist. How the hell do I fix that?” Marcus let out a long breath, his tone calm, “You don't fix it,I was shocked when she didn't recognize me at first too Kai you just… stand by her. Remind her in the little ways. She’ll find her way back.” Kai shook his head, frustration dark in his eyes. “What if she doesn’t?” Marcus placed a firm hand on his shoulder, grounding him. “She will. I’ve seen the way she looks at you, even before all this. Love like that doesn’t die it just gets buried. And when it resurfaces, it’s even stronger.Trust me. This isn’t the end. Lena’s strong stronger than most people I’ve ever met. She’ll fight her way back to