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Chapter 81

KAMARA As we pulled up the drive, the headlights swept over the front of the compound, revealing a figure already standing on the steps.My father.His tie was loosened, his hair windblown and messy. As soon as the car stopped, he lunged for the door, pulling it open before Silas could even kill the engine."Kamara!" He grabbed my shoulders, his hands trembling with a frantic energy I had never felt from him. He began checking me, looking from my head to my toes, his eyes darting for injuries. "Are you okay? Are you hurt? Tell me you’re fine."I stepped back, wrenching my shoulders out of his grip. The behavior was jarring. I had never seen him panic. For twenty years, he was a statue and now, all of a sudden he was a shattered mess."What is this behavior, Dad?" I asked, my voice flat. "Suddenly you care? You didn't care when you shipped me off to that school. You didn't care when you left me in this house for weeks at a time.""I was doing what I had to do!" his eyes snapped from

Chapter 82

KAMARAThe fury that had carried me all the way to the estate gates began to ebb, replaced by a hollow, ringing silence. My father stood before me with pleading eyes. "I don't know where she is," I said, my voice barely a whisper. The lie felt heavy on my tongue, but looking at him now, I couldn't be sure if giving him the location of the "Glass Graveyard" would be a rescue or another arrest. "I saw a photo. I... I saw Mom at the hospital. She was holding a both of us... after she was drugged to believe one had died. That’s all I know."My father didn't believe me, I could see it in the way his jaw tightened but he didn't push. Instead, he forced a weary, tight smile. "You know what? I think there's something I actually need to show you. It’s about time you know the truth."He led me into his private study, and walked to a heavy desk where he pulled out a manila folder, his fingers lingering on the edge before he opened it."Your mother... she was a kind soul, Kamara," he started, hi

Chapter 83

JACEI didn't need to see his face to know Matthias was losing it. I could hear it in the rhythm of his footsteps. Usually, the man moved with predatory grace, but now? Now, it was the opposite.I kept my head down. My chin was tucked against my chest, and every shallow breath I took felt like a serrated blade scraping against my bruised ribs. Across the room, Brian was a wreck. He’d been drifting in and out of consciousness for hours. Every time he slumped forward, I’d see the dark, wet stains on his shirt bloom a little further. They had really beaten the life out of him.Matthias stopped. The pacing ceased abruptly, and I felt his shadow stretch over me."You're losing it, aren't you?" I rasped. My voice felt like it was passing over crushed glass, but I forced the words out.I knew why he was spiraling. The news from the Mann estate must have hit his phone like a grenade. Kamara was back. Richard had turned the mansion into a fortress. Just like that, Matthias’s leverage was dead

Chapter 84

JACEAs we navigated the exit corridors of the facility, I saw the trail Oscar had left. Three of Matthias’s men were slumped against the concrete, completely out. My mind raced as I looked at Oscar’s staggering form. How? How much raw, adrenaline-fueled strength did it take for a man who looked this close to the grave to put these professionals down?We finally cleared the perimeter, the biting night air hitting us. We hadn’t made it a hundred yards into the treeline when Oscar suddenly fell to the ground with a sickening thud."Oscar!" I hissed, reaching out to grab his shoulder. I hauled him up, my own body screaming in protest, every bruise from the interrogation pulsing with heat. "Are you fine? Talk to me!""Yeah... I'm good. I'm good," he panted, though his eyes were rolling back.I was trembling, the anger finally bubbling up through the exhaustion. I forced myself to maintain my composure, but my voice came out like a whip. "You have a lot of explaining to do. What the hell h

Chapter 85

KAMARAI had spent hours pacing the floorboards, my mind a jagged mosaic of the photographs my father had given me. My brain was a fever of "what ifs." What if my father had been lying since the day they buried the empty casket? What if my mother was still alive, being held in some corner of the world, trying to reach out to us while my father played the role of the grieving widower? The itch at the back of my brain, the one that told me the danger was inside the house was becoming a roar. I needed the truth. Not the grainy, black-and-white truth of a photograph, but the raw, bleeding truth that only one man possessed.A minute later, my door swung open to reveal my father.He looked pale, less like a Don and more like a man closer to depression.He just stood there, looking at me with an expression that was almost... pleading."Kamara," he started. "I know you think I am the architect of your misery. I know you think these walls are a cage meant to break you.""Aren't they?" I coun

Chapter 86

JACEIt had taken three hours of burning through encrypted hospital backlogs and tracing a breadcrumb trail of redirected pension checks, but I finally found him. Dr. Aris Rickon hadn't vanished or fled the country. He was hiding in plain sight of the city.I didn't let Oscar follow me up. I could feel his eyes on the back of my head, that same calculating, sneaky look he’d been giving me since we left the hospital. He was acting suspicious."Wait by the car," I commanded, stopping at the entrance of the weathered building.Oscar’s jaw tightened, his pale face twisting into a scowl. "What is this? I didn't save your life just to play chauffeur while you run errands. Don’t forget you owe me your life even.”I turned on him, my voice dropping to a dangerous level. "The same way you owe me an explanation for why the hell Kamara is involved in all this shit right now. You selfish bastard, first my brother then her? You’re so pathetic.” I drawled to which Oscar's jaw tightened. “I think I

Chapter 87

JACEThe night air felt like ice against my skin, but it was nothing compared to the cold spreading through my chest. I slammed Oscar against the side of the car, my fingers digging into the worn of his jacket."Don’t freaking play that card!" I snarled, my voice vibrating with a decade of repressed rage. "What do you mean? What does Matthias have against Vivian? Why did a woman like her trade her own flesh and blood to him?""You really don't know, do you?" Oscar whispered, his voice eerily calm. "You spent all this time digging into Richard Mann, thinking he was the center of the universe. You never once stopped to ask where Vivian actually came from.""She was from a high-status family," I countered. "Everyone knew they disowned her when she married Richard because he was 'lower class.' They cleaned her records, slating her history to nothing. We couldn't even find a maiden name that stuck."Oscar let out a dry, hacking laugh. "You couldn't find a name because the world isn't allow

Chapter 88

KAMARAIt had been over three hours.During that time, I had crawled onto my mother’s bed, curling into the silk sheets that still carried the faint, haunting scent of her perfume. I explored her room one last time, opening jewelry boxes and touching the lace of her robes like a lost child looking for a map back home. I was trying to find a piece of her to hold onto, but my thoughts wouldn't let me rest. They were gunning at me, sharp and relentless.My father had left three hours ago. He had gone to finish it, to bring the missing piece of our family back through those gates. But the silence was deafening. What was taking him so long? Why hadn't he call?Panic began to claw at my throat. Did he not find her? Did she run away again? Or worse—did Matthias get to her first?The sudden, heavy groan of the front gates echoed through the estate, cutting through the quiet like a blade.I bolted.I didn't think; I just ran. I flew down the grand staircase, my heart hammering against my ribs

Chapter 89

JACEThe sterile, sharp scent of the private clinic felt like a vacuum, sucking the adrenaline right out of my lungs. I sat in the hallway, my head hanging between my knees, staring at the dried flakes of Elijah’s blood on my knuckles.Just a few days ago, I thought my brother was a ghost. A memory I’d buried alongside my childhood. Then he’d appeared like a phantom at the docks, only to be broken in front of my eyes at the Glass Graveyard."He’s stabilized," a doctor muttered, passing by without looking up from his clipboard. "You can go in, but make it quick. He’s weak."I didn't need to be told twice. I pushed into the room, the steady beeping of the heart monitor the only thing filling the silence. Elijah looked smaller than I remembered, his face a map of jagged cuts and deep, purple bruising.As I approached the bed, his eyes fluttered open. For a second, they were clouded with pain, but then they cleared, locking onto mine."Hey," I whispered, pulling a chair to the bedside. "Y

Chapter 90

KAMARAThe heavy silence of the house was a cage I couldn’t stand to be in for another second. It had been days since I’d really seen Jace, the memory of him was becoming a blurry ache I didn’t have time to process. Right now, the only thing screaming in my mind was the image of Kaela. I couldn't just sit here and phantom what she was going through. I had to move.I slipped out of my room, creeping down the hallway toward my father’s study. As I approached the heavy doors, I froze. The sound of his voice drifted through the wood, amplified by the loudspeaker of his phone."Hope she’s gotten there safely," my father was saying, his voice tight. "This better tell Matthias that I want nothing else. You don't harm my family. I want your word. He’s gotten what he wanted—she’s at the club. She’s doing what she’s supposed to do. I hope everything is set."The voice on the other end crackled, a low murmur I couldn't quite catch, but my father’s response made my heart stop."She better be unt

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