All Chapters of THE BILLIONAIRE'S HIDDEN MISSION : Chapter 51 - Chapter 60

Kai stood alone in the narrow corridor outside the medical wing, one hand braced against the wall as he steadied his breathing.The corridor lights were dimmed to night mode, casting long shadows that stretched and overlapped like cracks in stone. Somewhere deeper in the mansion, a clock ticked softly, each second painfully deliberate.Pain still pulsed through his ribs, deep and stubborn. It spread with every breath, reminding him of the bullet that had torn through flesh weeks earlier and the explosion that had nearly finished the job tonight. He welcomed it anyway.Pain meant he was awake. Alive. Able to think.Able to choose.Valentina’s words echoed in his head no matter how hard he tried to silence them.She was never meant to survive.He exhaled slowly through his nose, forcing the memory away. Valentina didn’t frighten him. What frightened him was how certain she sounded. How calmly she spoke about elimination, as if it were a correction rather than a death sentence.He stra

Elara’s hands were still shaking when she reached Damon’s office.Not the uncontrollable tremor of fear, but the aftershock of everything her body had endured in the last few hours. Smoke still clung faintly to the hem of her jacket. Her palms burned where the skin had scraped raw against concrete and metal. Every muscle protested with each step she took down the familiar corridor.And beneath all of it, the echo of Kai’s voice still lived inside her ears.Don’t… leave.She hadn’t.Not really.But she also hadn’t stayed.Because staying meant being found.And whoever had been watching them at the pier hadn’t been there by accident.The mansion greeted her with silence, but it was the wrong kind. Not the comfortable quiet she used to associate with late nights and empty halls, but something sharper. Alert. As if the walls themselves were listening.She closed the office door behind her carefully, making sure it didn’t latch too loudly. She didn’t turn on the overhead lights. The faint

The first shot shattered the silence.It struck the wall just ahead of Kai, stone exploding outward in sharp fragments. Elara gasped as dust filled the air, her instincts screaming even before her mind caught up.Kai moved instantly.“Run.”He didn’t wait for her to respond. His hand closed around hers and he pulled her back, turning sharply as another shot rang out behind them. This time it wasn’t a warning. It was precise. Controlled.They were being hunted.Elara’s heart slammed painfully in her chest as they sprinted down the corridor, the mansion blurring into streaks of shadow and light. Her shoes slipped slightly on the polished floor, but Kai tightened his grip, refusing to let her fall behind.Footsteps thundered after them.Not rushed.Not chaotic.Disciplined.“Kai,” she breathed, panic rising. “Where are we going?”He didn’t look back. “Somewhere Damon never wanted you to see.”They turned sharply, then again, taking a route Elara had never used despite years in the mansio

They didn’t speak at first.The narrow room smelled faintly of dust and oil, the kind of place that existed only as a passage, never meant for rest. A single bulb flickered overhead, throwing uneven light across the concrete walls. Outside, somewhere beyond layers of stone and steel, the mansion breathed with a life that felt hostile now.Elara leaned against the wall, arms wrapped around herself, eyes unfocused. The drone footage still burned behind her eyelids. Damon boarding the jet. Calm. Untouched. Two days ago.Alive.Kai stood a few steps away, back straight, shoulders squared the way they always were when something heavy pressed against him. His jaw was tight, his gaze fixed on a dark stain on the floor as though it could offer answers.It was Kai who broke the silence.“There’s something you need to know,” he said.Elara didn’t look at him. “If this is another secret,” she replied quietly, “I don’t think I have room for it anymore.”He swallowed. The sound was small, but in t

The fire was still burning in Elara’s eyes long after the flames behind them faded into the distance.They had put miles between themselves and the ruins of the mansion before they finally stopped. The road ended in a narrow strip of land overlooking the water, the city lights of Lumine Bay glimmering faintly across the dark surface like a lie pretending to be calm.Kai checked the perimeter in silence while Elara sat on a low concrete barrier, her hands clasped tightly together. Soot stained her sleeves. Smoke clung to her hair. Her body ached in places she hadn’t yet named.But something inside her was astonishingly clear.The mansion was gone.And with it, the last illusion she had been living inside.For years, she had believed survival meant endurance. That staying quiet, staying composed, staying agreeable was strength. That if she loved harder, waited longer, trusted more deeply, something good would eventually emerge from the cold architecture of her marriage.She understood n