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Chapter 121: Frost Last Warning

POV: IrisThe line went dead, the silence stretching long and fragile in the room until Evans set the receiver back on its base with a heavy click."She hung up," Evans said, turning to face us, his expression grim. "She thinks he is coming within the week.""She said he is coming himself," Hailey added, her voice barely a breath as she stood near the edge of the rug. "Frost sounded terrified, Iris. I have never heard her sound like that."Before I could answer, a sharp tap sounded against the glass of the rear garden door.Calix moved instantly, his gun drawn as he pressed his back against the wall beside the curtain. He peeked through the slit, his body relaxing just a fraction as he unlocked the heavy latch."She is alone," Calix muttered, pulling the glass door open.Dr. Frost stepped into the warm glow of the room, and I swallowed hard, barely recognizing the woman standing in front of me. She looked drastically thinner, her designer coat hanging loose over her narrow shoulders,

Chapter 122: The Compound

HaileyThe reporter kept talking about the fire but I wasn't listening anymore. My eyes were on the smoke rising behind her, black and thick against the pale morning sky, and all I could think was that Frost had actually done it. She'd burned her own life's work to buy us time."She's not answering her phone," Evans said, lowering his own from his ear. "Either it's destroyed or she doesn't want to be found right now.""Or she's dead," Nancy said quietly, and nobody argued with her.Marcus arrived an hour later with two laptops and a duffel bag full of gear, dropping everything on the kitchen table like he hadn't slept in days."If Frost bought us time, we use it," he said. "I've got the floor plan for Rey's compound outside Marseille. I've got shift changes. If we're going to move on him, it has to be now, while his attention is split."Evans looked at me across the room. "You're not coming.""I didn't ask," I said."Hailey.""I said I didn't ask, Evans. I'm seven weeks pregnant, not

Chapter 123: Inside

EvansThe corridor lights flickered as we moved, throwing shadows across walls that looked too clean, too white, like the place had never actually been lived in or used for anything real."Blueprint says the room ahead is the last one before the server wing," Marcus said in my ear. "Watch the doorway, it's narrower than the rest of the corridor.""Copy," I said, and behind me I heard Calix breathing hard, his knuckles bloody from the man he'd put down two corridors back."You good?" I asked without looking at him."I'm always good," he said, but his voice was tighter than usual, and I knew him well enough by now to hear the strain under it.We pushed through the narrow doorway together and the room opened up in front of us, bigger than I expected, bright under rows of surgical lights hanging from the ceiling. Machines lined one wall, monitors dark, cables coiled and waiting like they were holding their breath. In the center of it all stood a man in a gray suit, hands clasped in front

Chapter 124: Born

HaileyThe pain hit me halfway across the courtyard, sharp and sudden, like something inside me had simply decided it was time and wasn't going to ask permission.I stopped running. My knees buckled and Sera grabbed me before I hit the ground, her arm wrapping tight around my waist."Hailey, what's wrong," she said, panic already climbing into her voice."I don't know," I gasped, but I did know, some part of me knew immediately, the way your body tells you the truth before your mind catches up.Another wave rolled through me, worse than the first, and I bent forward, a sound coming out of my mouth I didn't recognize as my own."It's too early," I said between breaths. "It's too early, Sera, it's not supposed to happen like this—""Okay," she said, and I could hear her forcing calm into her voice even though her hands were shaking against my arm. "Okay, we're not staying out here in the open."There was a small maintenance door set into the wall a few meters away, half in shadow, half

Chapter 125; The Trade

EvansI dropped to my knees on the concrete beside Hailey, my hands hovering over her and the baby, not sure where it was safe to touch."Are you hurt," I said, my voice barely holding together. "Hailey, are you hurt anywhere—""I'm fine," she said, breathless, tears still wet on her face. "Evans, we're both fine, look at him, just look at him."I looked. I couldn't stop looking. He was small and red and furious, his fists pressed against his own face, and something inside my chest cracked open in a way I didn't have words for."We don't have time," Sera said, already moving, grabbing a folded tarp off a shelf and wrapping it gently around the baby. "Evans, whatever happened out there, it's not over. We need to move."She was right. I could hear it in the walls, boots on concrete somewhere above us, shouting in two different directions. Rey's men were still searching, still confused, but confusion doesn't last forever."Marcus set an extraction point two hundred meters past the east f

Chapter 126: What Calix Found

CalixThe freezing water slammed into my chest, filling my nose and mouth before I could fight my way to the surface. Above me, the sky blazed orange as the east wing tore itself apart in a secondary blast. Chunks of burning concrete and heavy iron bars rained into the dark reservoir, splashing around me like mortar shells.I kicked hard against the drag of the current, dragging air into my lungs as soon as my head broke the water."Evans!" I shouted, turning in circles while the smoke stung my eyes. "Evans!"Nothing answered except the roar of the fire on the bank and the sound of falling debris.A few feet away, a gray suit jacket bobbed near a floating piece of timber. I swam toward it with quick, desperate strokes, grabbing the collar and pulling the body upward. Rey’s face emerged from the dark water, pale and limp, his head bleeding from a deep gash near his hairline. He was still breathing, his chest hitching in small, ragged gasps.I scanned the water around us, my eyes search

Chapter 127: Four Months Later

HaileyFour months passed in a blur of small routines, wet pavement, and quiet mornings.I sat on the low wooden stool near the living room window, rocking four-month-old Kelvin gently on my lap while he chewed on the edge of his cloth bib. Outside, the green hills just beyond London stretched out into the morning fog, calm and completely detached from the life we had left behind in the city."He is getting heavy, Hailey," Nancy said, setting a steaming mug of tea on the small side table next to me.I looked up at her, smiling just enough to show her I was listening. Nancy’s face was fuller now, the hollow paleness under her eyes completely gone after months of proper rest, recovery, and medical care. She laughed far more often these days, a bright, clear sound that filled the drafty old house whenever Calix made a ridiculous joke at the dinner table."He gains another pound every time I turn around," I said, adjusting the baby’s blanket over his feet. "Calix says he is going to be ta

Chapter 128; The Letter

HaileyI sat on the cold wooden floorboards, my eyes tracing the sharp slant of his ink across the heavy paper."I am writing this because I know how stubborn you are," the letter continued, his words bringing the exact sound of his voice right into the quiet bedroom. "I know you will spend every hour looking for logical answers, trying to solve every broken piece of this mess. But if something happens to me tonight, I need you to stop looking for answers and listen to me. Our marriage was never just the arrangement we agreed upon in that quiet room four years ago. It started as a practical plan to protect our families, but loving you stopped being strategy somewhere during that first difficult year. It became the only real, unquestionable thing in my entire life. Everything I did, every secret I kept, and every deal I made with Rey was meant to keep you safe. If I do not make it back to you tonight, please do not waste your life waiting for a ghost. Build a life for yourself and for

Chapter 129; Recognition

EvansI did not move for a very long moment, standing completely still near the wide glass doors while the thick stream of afternoon shoppers drifted around me like fast water past a river stone.Hailey stood thirty feet away near the entrance of the bakery, her hands frozen on the handles of her shopping bag, her breath catching so hard I could see her shoulders lift beneath her light grey coat. She looked down at the small boy riding comfortably on her right hip, then looked back up at me. Her eyes widened in absolute, shattered disbelief, as if she were staring directly at a ghost standing under the bright fluorescent lights of the concourse."Evans?" she whispered.The name barely carried over the steady rumble of the shopping center, but I saw her lips form the shape of it.She did not wait for me to answer. She broke into a sudden run, dodging past an elderly couple pushing a wire stroller and weaving through the middle of the crowded central aisle. She rushed straight toward me

Chapter 130; Home

EvansI pulled back from Hailey's lips just enough to breathe, my hand moving to support her back while she leaned against me, her chest still heaving with quiet sobs.A tiny, wet cough came from the polished floor right next to my left shoe.Hailey wiped her eyes with the sleeve of her coat, letting out a breath that was half a laugh and half a sob. She looked down at the floor, then reached down quickly to snatch a bruised purple grape right out of Kelvin's small, chubby fingers before he could push it into his mouth."No, absolute trash," she whispered to him, her voice still rough from crying.She lifted the boy up, resting him against her hip again. Kelvin blinked his large, dark eyes at me, completely unbothered by the dramatic scene unfolding in the middle of the crowded mall concourse. He clutched a soft blue toy rabbit against his small chest, staring at my face with open, silent curiosity.My throat locked up completely. I took a short, unsteady breath, my hands shaking as I

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