In Love With The Dangerous Professor의 모든 챕터: 챕터 71 - 챕터 80

CELINE'S POVAnd in our home in Oregon, we turned it into a fortress within a day of landing. Caelum got the house private security right away, armed guards who walked 24-hour shifts around the property of eight acres, ensuring there was not one moment when we were defenseless. Surveillance cameras at every conceivable angle, motion sensors around the perimeter, panic buttons in every single room. He even had a ”safe room” built in the basement within seven days, reinforced steel door thick enough to withstand explosives, stores of supplies loaded for longer-seater shelters, direct lines to local police and FBI that couldn't be cut.I knew why he was doing all of this. Isabelle was alive and she was actively trying to hunt us down, which she managed to do over and over again when we tried to hide anywhere. The security measures were justified, a reasonable, the intelligent reaction to a credible threat.But knowing didn’t make it any easier to live with. Didn’t make it one whit less p

CELINE'S POVI could not remain in the hospital. Couldn’t just lie there in that uncomfortable bed, the sterile white walls judging me, while Caelum walked into mortal danger and I wasn’t there to have his back. The nurse had entered the room every hour with clocklike regularity, taking my vitals and baby’s heartbeat, scribbling on charts and dialing up my IV.When she left to check on more patients in the other rooms, I decided. Most likely one of the stupidest things I've ever done, but I did it.I slowly removed my IV, trying not to trigger an alarm. I threw on the clothes Maddie brought me yesterday, doing my best to run even though I was currently running with a baby belly. Exit the room with me head up, trying to look as though I had every right to be leaving.The nurse working the central station moved to interrupt me, shouting that I should not leave, that I had not been discharged by the doctor. But I continued through with purpose, signing all the forms thrust under my nose,

CELINE'S POVCaelum went as white as a sheet, just fucking staring at his phone screen with all the color sucked out of him like somebody had pulled a plug. He was near the hospital room window, completing the last of the nominal discharge paperwork. Twelve hours of labor had already left me speechless from exhaustion, but in too much hap­piness to be too concerned over my aches and pains as I held baby Hope against my chest.But when I saw his face, my stomach sank."What's wrong?" I asked right away, moving Hope veru gently.He attempted to conceal it, stuffing the phone in his pocket. "Nothing. Just a congratulations text from Kent about the baby.”"Show me." I knew him too well, after all we had been through. Could see and read every micro expression that crossed his face."Celine, you just gave birth. You’re supposed to be asleep, not worried about —”"Caelum. Show me the message. Now."He paused for a long second weighing whether to shield me from whatever it was. Reluctantly, h

CELINE'S POVVictoria’s face grew serious as she took her seat in the corner private study room that Kent managed to reserve for us. Hope lay on my arm, fast asleep; her little face was calm and serene — she knew nothing of the peril that threatened us from every side!“Just before Vivienne died, she put into effect what they call a dead man’s switch,” Victoria said, speaking softly and urgently as the two of us looked around to ensure we had privacy. “It’s Alexander thhat we have in much of the rest of the world. Every six months she had to check in with a very specific coded message sent to a secure server, or some information would automatically be made public in such a way that her enemies would read it. Extremely detailed, damaging information.""What kind of information exactly?" Caelum inquired, though his voice indicated he was fairly certain the answer wasn't going to be a pleasant one.My stomach dropped sickeningly. “How many days has it been since she died in that warehou

Celine's POVThe black SUV turned the curve in the road, and that was it; Caelum was gone.I watched it drive down the street out of the window of the safe house, holding my hand flat on the cold glass, Hope snuggled up against my chest in her wrap carrier. She was asleep, her mouth open slightly and looking with an innocence unknown to her of the terror that walked in behind this man who had become her father — unaware that he had just stepped into something that would at least leave him limping. I envied her that peace. I hadn’t experienced anything even resembling peace in days.“You need to move back from the window.The voice belonged to Elena. She said it the way she said everything, without warmth, without apology, as if words were nothing more than tools she wielded to achieve an end. She was in her mid-forties, lean-jawed, with silver running through her dark hair and eyes that never stopped for long upon anything. She had been identified by Victoria as ex-Mossad. And it seem