ホーム / Romance / In Love With The Dangerous Professor / チャプター 51 - チャプター 60

In Love With The Dangerous Professor のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 51 - チャプター 60

94 チャプター

Fifty One

CELINE'S POVWe escaped with seconds to spare. The warehouse detonated in our wake, a gigantic fireball that painted the night sky like a second sun. The heat was so extreme that I could feel it through the van’s windows. Debris fell on to the street, as chunks of concrete and twisted metal crashed to the pavement.Vivienne was still inside.I’d glimpsed her standing in the doorway, that maniacal smile on her face when she pressed the detonator. She hadn't run. Hadn't tried to escape. She had stayed and let the building collapse on top of her.She was dead. She had to be. No one would have lived through that inferno.I should have felt relieved. Should feel something like victory or closure. Instead, I just felt numb. Empty. As if all the anxiety and adrenaline had been burnt out of me, leaving nothing but ash.Caelum was dying in my arms.They drove him to a private hospital, the sort that didn’t ask too many questions when armed men brought in someone with a gunshot wound. Kent knew

続きを読む

Fifty Two

CAELUM'S POVHer words struck me as if I had received another blow to the chest. For a second I couldn’t catch my breath, couldn’t think through the pounding sound in my ears.Kill Celine Moretti.Naturally Vivienne had a Plan B Of course she would have had to reach from her grave to try ruin the only thing I’d ever loved. That was who she was. Who she'd always been. She couldn’t even die without continuing to haunt me.“Explain," I said, my voice even but with the grip of panic around my gut. "Now. Everything you know."Kent pulled his phone out and displayed intercepted communications for me. His face was somber, the expression he only had when things were really bad. "We broke into Vivienne’s secure servers after the warehouse bombings. Discovered these messages embedded within encrypted documents. She had an outstanding kill order for months, maybe longer. Should she be put to death, a certain murderer was doomed to slay Celine. Revenge from beyond the grave."I scanned through th

続きを読む

Fifty Three

CELINE'S POVI had only left for a minute. Just had to pee, splash some cold water on my face, try to quell the panic that for days felt like pressure on a dam. The two FBI agents stood just outside the door, guns drawn and ready. I was safe.That was what I kept telling myself as I twisted open the faucet.When I heard it, I was hunched over the sink with cold water streaming over my hands and up my wrists. A low sound, whispered beneath the falling water. The window opening.My blood turned to ice.The bathroom window was small and up high on the wall near the ceiling. I’d considered it too small for anyone to get through, had written it off as a security issue. I'd been catastrophically wrong.I reached for the gun Caelum made me carry with me at all times, my hands trembling so much I almost fumbled and dropped it. I reached along the far wall, my trembling arms lifting the weapon towards its goal.Through this a woman fell, somehow all grace. Her beauty was icy, calculated, and i

続きを読む

Fifty Four

CAELUM'S POVThe grand jury room was more modest than I had anticipated. No dramatic courtroom, no judge. Nothing but a conference table, 23 jurors and a prosecutor who seemed to have hit the lottery.I was seated at the head of the table, disassembling everything I had ever known.Can you please state your full name for the record?”"Caelum Dante Morano.""And how do you know Vivienne Morano?""She was my mother."For six hours, I talked. Names, dates, locations. I described the hierarchy of Vivienne’s org, how money was funneled through it, who answered to whom. I described deeds stretching into the distant past. The laundering of dirty money, the bribing of both the judges and politicians, murders ordered and committed.The prosecutors weren't thrilled but came pretty close to it. Defense lawyers rushed to take notes. But I had a receipt for everything. Documents, recordings, financial records.I was burying men I’d called allies. Men I’d worked with, men I’d trusted with my life.

続きを読む

Fifty Five

CELINE'S POVI saw Amaya standing on our porch and my heart sank into my stomach. For a moment I was frozen, unable to even think beyond the panic that someone had discovered us. That our second life was over already. That all we’d put together in just six months was about to come apart at the seams.Caelum got over it more quickly than I did. He seized her arm and hurried her inside, scanning the street with his head, to see if anyone had noticed. Our neighbors were nosy — the kind who peered out of windows at nothing and whispered over fences about the quiet couple who never went out. The last thing we wanted was for someone to remember a blonde woman coming to visit and then be able to identify her for the wrong people later.He shut and locked the door, rechecked the window one last time, then turned to Amaya."How did you find us?" His voice was harsh, cold, the tone he adopted before violence.Amaya appeared guilty, shifting her eyes nervously between us. She was wearing somethi

続きを読む

Fifty Five

CELINE'S POVI saw Amaya standing on our porch and my heart sank into my stomach. For a moment I was frozen, unable to even think beyond the panic that someone had discovered us. That our second life was over already. That all we’d put together in just six months was about to come apart at the seams.Caelum got over it more quickly than I did. He seized her arm and hurried her inside, scanning the street with his head, to see if anyone had noticed. Our neighbors were nosy — the kind who peered out of windows at nothing and whispered over fences about the quiet couple who never went out. The last thing we wanted was for someone to remember a blonde woman coming to visit and then be able to identify her for the wrong people later.He shut and locked the door, rechecked the window one last time, then turned to Amaya."How did you find us?" His voice was harsh, cold, the tone he adopted before violence.Amaya appeared guilty, shifting her eyes nervously between us. She was wearing somethi

続きを読む

Fifty Seven

CELINE'S POVI knew who Gregor was at once, half his face burned into something monstrous. The skin was twisted and mottled, pulled taut in patches where it had healed crookedly. His left eye hung a bit, his facial skin warped by scarring that made the man appear nightmarish. The man who had sold us out to Vivienne, the one we thought had died in the warehouse explosion. I nearly vomited — a boiling cauldron of dread and rage."You were supposed to be gone," I muttered, with more brio than my pounding heart. "Vivienne's bomb—"Gregor cawed, the sound scratching in from outside and echoing through the factory floor. "Vivienne was a paycheck. Not a bad paycheck, I concede — only a paycheck. And when she died, when that warehouse collapsed, I met some new employers.”He made a circular motion around at the mercenaries surrounding us – no less than twenty men wearing tactical gear, carrying professional grade weapons. The Italians are underwriting this whole thing. They’re funding the ope

続きを読む

Fifty Eight

CAELUM'S POVCeline’s parents were taken to the hospital by ambulance, their lights and sirens splitting the predawn darkness. As two large buses idled for the wounded, paramedics worked on them as they loaded them in, recording vital signs and treating some for shock and minor injuries. Celine rode with them in the first ambulance and held her mother’s hand as they gave her sedatives to quiet her. Her mother was hysterical, couldn’t stop crying and asking questions nobody could answer yet.I waited back with Director Chen to provide my testimony as FBI agents sealed off the crime scene. They were all over, taking pictures of evidence, picking up shell casings and interviewing captured mercenaries. Twelve mercenaries taken prisoner, two killed in the crossfire. Gregor escaped.Chen was furious. It felt like she was walking back and forth in front of me, her professional barrier breaking down with each syllable. "You broke witness protection protocol. You engaged with known criminals.

続きを読む

Fifty Nine

CELINE'S POVThey sent us to a place in rural Alaska, three days after the concept. There was no warning, no choice — just the arrival of federal agents at dawn with orders to pack one suitcase each. It was a long, quiet flight and when we landed at last I knew why they'd picked this place.It was the end of the world.It was nestled down in a valley surrounded by mountains and miles from the nearest town. The snow was everywhere, thick and white and unending. The cold was a physical slap when I stepped off the plane, robbing me of breath. The constant howling of the wind was another sound that did not cease.It was a black site, the F.B.I.’s most secure facility for protected witnesses. There were perhaps a dozen other people here, but we couldn’t talk to them. Gun-toting security guards marched back and forth, their breath visible in the cold air. No phones, no internet, no external contact. We may as well have been on another planet.They let us stay in a small cabin near the edge

続きを読む

Sixty

CAELUM'S POVA mole inside the FBI.The words felt like a punch in the gut. Everything suddenly made horrifying sense. How Gregor had cornered us at the factory, despite our precautions. How he had discovered our new identities. How he could stay a step ahead of the law as a fugitive on the run.Someone in the F.B.I. was providing him with information."We have to get out of here," Amaya had just said, as she already made her way toward the door. “If they come for the scotch, we've got a mole. They'll be coming.""Wait." I raised a hand, rereading Kent’s message. “Kent doesn’t know about this cabin. Nobody does except us. We're safe here for now.""For how long?" Celine asked.I didn't have an answer. Maybe hours, maybe days.I told them what Kent had said, seeing the horror start to spread on their faces.Amaya cursed in three languages. "Who's the mole? Chen? One of her agents?""Could be anyone. Support staff, tech people,field agents. The FBI is huge." I started pacing. "We can't

続きを読む

前へ

...

...

次へ

コードをスキャンしてアプリで読む

DMCA.com Protection Status