She Is Gone

Eden’s POVThe door to the suite wing finally gave way under a heavy impact.Smoke poured in first, thick, choking, gray—curling along the ceiling and swallowing the light. Jonas shoved me further behind the reinforced frame, his body fully covering mine as gunfire erupted in the corridor just outside. The sound was deafening, a continuous crack and roar that vibrated through the floor. I heard Daddy’s voice roaring orders, raw with fury. Felix shouting something I could not make out. The sharp, wet sound of someone taking a bullet and still staying on their feet.Then the smoke parted.Marcus stepped through as if the chaos belonged to him. He was not rushing. He moved with the same cold precision that had guided every photograph, every package, every threat he had sent into our lives. In his hand was a gun, already raised. Behind him two of his men laid down covering fire, forcing Daddy and Felix to take cover at the far junction. The air stank of cordite and blood and smoke.Jonas

Prologue

Daniel’s POVI was the one who brought her into this family.That truth sat in my chest like a blade that refused to dull, no matter how many weeks passed. I had been the one who first saw her, the one who recognized what she could become to us, the one who opened the door and let her step inside the walls that were supposed to keep her safe. I had promised—quietly, privately, with the full weight of everything I was—that I would protect her. That the family I helped hold together would be strong enough to keep her alive.I failed.Eden was gone. The center of us had been torn out in a single shot, and nothing that remained had settled back into place. The house still stood. The security still ran. The businesses still functioned under the same ruthless efficiency we had always maintained. But the family itself was fractured in ways that no amount of operational control could repair.Father had withdrawn into a silence so complete it felt like another kind of death. He still gave orde

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She Is Gone

Prologue