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In Love With The Dangerous Professor의 모든 챕터: 챕터 61 - 챕터 70

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Sixty One

CELINE'S POVChen was directed inside at gunpoint, and Caelum never lowered the weapon from her head. I held my own gun on her chest, trigger finger ready to pull if she so much as blinked wrong. Amaya stood next to the window, looking for any sign that this was a setup, that backup would arrive.Chen gradually lifted her hands, palms up. I am not the Gregor-mole. I’m the leaker, but I’m not the enemy. There's a difference."Explain," Caelum said coldly. "And make it convincing."Chen drew a breath, shivering now with cold. "I've been feeding Gregor misinformation for months of course. Misdirections, dead ends, fake locations. Keeping you just one step ahead of him and making him believe I was his source inside the FBI. But he figured it out. He sees I’ve been playing him. And now he’s coming for me next. I need your support as much as you need mine.”I didn't buy it. Why would you put your career, your life on the line for us? We're nobody to you."Chen’s face changed, a rawness and

Sixty Two

CAELUM'S POVIn the cabin, we ripped the place apart, searching in sweaty paranoia through every inch of the small space for surveillance equipment. Discovered three cameras concealed in smoke detectors, strategically placed to capture every angle of the main room. The type of device used to eavesdrop from inside the bottom of the lamp by the couch, where they talk in hushed tones. A tracker implanted in the cabin’s wifi router which Amaya had been using on her hacking work to transmit our precise location non-stop.“He's been scoping us out for days,” Amaya said, eyes pale as she surveyed the gear. "Maybe weeks. All we talked about, every move we made, everything. He knows all of it."“Then Montreal is a trap,” Chen said, tone flat. "He'll be waiting for us. This whole thing, the meeting, it's a trap to lure us out.”“We’re going back,” I told him, deciding at that moment. "But we're going dark first. Complete blackout. No phones, no electronics, nothing he can possibly trace or moni

Sixty Three

CELINE'S POVSuddenly the enclosed hallways were filled with gunshots from every angle, and he went deaf. Bullets ripped through expensive paintings and marble columns, shattering bits of both. Caelum yanked me into cover behind a gargantuan, life-size table as soldiers streamed in from both sides of the hallway.“Stay low,” he screamed above the roar, opening fire with a gun he had concealed in his server’s jacket. Two guards went down, but still there were others.We made our way through the estate yard to yard, taking cover at every stop. All the hallways looked to be filled with more guards, every door we attempted to try was locked or took us into further peril. My arm was burning from the hollow tip bullet which had barely grazed me, ripping through my uniform and causing a bloody mess. Not deep, but it hurt enough to bring pictures of Charles Whitman into my eyes.Caelum limped heavily, his old injuries from the warehouse explosion getting worse under strain. He was ashen with

Sixty Four

CAELUM'S POVI was up on my feet in seconds, completely awake and I had just been going to sleep deeply a few minutes ago. And the training of years meant I could wake ready for violence, right away."What did you hear?" I felt the shifting of our now few belongings and asked Celine quietly.Her voice shaking, she recounted Chen’s phone call word for word. Rage in my chest was bubbling up. After all of that, after me trusting her, she’d been playing us the entire time."Wake the others," I said. "Quietly. We move in five minutes."But as Celine went to step forward, Chen’s bedroom door creaked open. She’s stood in the doorway, silhouetted by the lamp she switched on. Her eyes were calm, almost sad.“I've not betrayed you, far from It, Caelum. I can see how you’d think that after what you overheard.”I pulled my gun on her and had it aimed at her chest in one smooth motion. "Explain. Fast. And it better be convincing."“I was speaking to the FBI Director. Preparing your real freedom,

Sixty Five

CELINE'S POVI was twelve weeks pregnant when morning sickness began to ease up and the reality of what we’d done, whom we were preparing for this world — really struck. I stood in the bathroom, looking at my reflection in the mirror and pressing my hand to my still-flat stomach, attempting to feel joy for a life multiplied inside me.Instead, I felt terror.Gregor knew where we lived. Knew about the baby. Had sent us evidence that he was there, that he could access us whenever he pleased. The picture he’d mailed already sat on our kitchen table like a ticking bomb.Caelum wanted to move immediately. When I emerged from the bathroom, he was already packing.“We’re leaving tonight,” he said, yanking clothes out of drawers and shoving them in a bag. “I’ve got a pal in Montana and he’ll squirrel us away to start over, brand new. We'll be gone by midnight."“No.” It was a flat, weary word.He paused, turned to face me. "What?""I said no. We're not moving again." I sat on the bed, too exh

Sixty Six

CAELUM'S POVThe team assembled in our living room to discuss what we had learned. The Sophia Reeves intel hung between us like a loaded gun, waiting for someone to pull the trigger.Ryker was the first to speak, his voice matter-of-fact. "We use the daughter. Take her from the hospital, keep her safely somewhere, get in touch with Gregor and negotiate peace. He steps back, you get left alone and we let her go.”“She’s a kid,” Kent said, now sounding uncomfortable. "Seventeen, possibly eighteen judging from the records. She's not part of this war. She's innocent."“And Celine’s baby is, too,” Ryker shot back. "So is everyone else Gregor's killed in the past twenty years. Then here we’ve not discussed hurting her, we are taking a hostage.”A part of me was torn. And I felt like I was being pulled in a million different directions. I had done terrible things in my life. Killed people who deserved it, and probably some who didn’t. Laws that are broken, trusts that are betrayed, lines I’

Sixty Seven

CELINE'S POVBack home in Oregon, I was going slowly and quietly out of my mind. So you spent by the hour, and a day felt like a week. I communicated with the team on encrypted messages, assisted Amaya with intelligence analysis, traced financial transfers and border crossings. But it all felt hollow when I was sitting here, thousands of miles from where the real action was.My pregnancy was going exactly how the books said it would. I had a really tough time with morning sickness around week thirteen, which made me feel sick and depleted. I was five pounds heavier despite barely being able to keep food down. My body was transforming in ways that should have felt miraculous but simply made me feel like even more of an easy target.I attempted to concentrate on everyday things. I turned to Maddie for help as we painted the nursery a light yellow. Read parenting books that scared me more than any mafia threat had. Bought teeny clothes that seemed impossible to fit into. But I was always

Sixty Eight

CAELUM'S POV“I’m going,” I said, already bracing mentally for what would inevitably come next. Playing out scenarios, crunching the odds, getting ready for the worst."Like hell you're going alone," Celine responded at once, her tone brooking no argument."You're pregnant. You stay here where it’s safe.”“No, I’m not going to let you go in there and get yourself killed and leave our kid with out a father. We go there together, or we don’t go at all.”"Celine, be reasonable—""Don't." Her voice was steel, stripped of impurities — the voice she used when her mind was 100 percent made up. "We're partners. We made a deal to walk through everything together. But that doesn’t change just because I’m pregnant. If anything, it matters more now.”I wanted to fight, wanted to kiss her in the van and drive away alone. But I recognized that expression in her eyes. Understood that if we went to the mat over this, it would only be a waste of time neither of us had, and she wouldn't change her mind

Sixty Nine

CELINE'S POVI gazed at the woman at arms with the men, and looked about me, trying to think. She looked exactly like the pictures Caelum had revealed to me just months ago when he'd labelled his book and finally shared parts of his past. Isabelle Laurent. Black hair cascading in waves down to her shoulders, high cheekbones, nearly black eyes. Beautiful in a way that made my chest feel too tight from an emotion I didn’t want to put a name to.But this was impossible. Isabelle had been dead over a decade. Car accident. I’d heard the story from Caelum in one of our late-night chats, heard the guilt that seeped through his voice each time he told me how he hadn’t been able save her.Caelum appeared as though he had just seen a ghost, everything but the air drained from his face. His hand went slack in mine."Isabelle?" His voice was broken, disbelieving.The woman grinned; her smile was all pearly-white teeth, ice, and predator. "Hello, Caelum. Did you miss me? I know I missed you all t

Seventy

CAELUM'S POVMy ears were ringing, and the taste of dust clogged my throat when I awoke. I was wracked with pain, sharp stabs in my ribs, dull throbs everywhere else. For a panicky second or two, I couldn’t remember who I was or what had happened. All was darkness and dust, the settling rubble groaning around me.Memory slammed back like a blow. The church. Isabelle back from the dead after 10 years. Gregor making his desperate move. Gunfire from every direction. The floor gave way beneath us, that horrible feeling of falling through space.Celine."Celine!" I yelled at the top of my lungs, raw and frantic. "Celine, answer me! Where are you?"There was a groan, and it seemed to proceed from some place near by in the darkness. With a cry of pain that echoed through my body, I moved as best as I could despite the weight of agony in me, bunched-up stone and splintered wood crunching to one side beneath hands slick with blood from lacerations whose origins were no longer clear. My fingers

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