All Chapters of The Billoniare's Fake Husband : Chapter 51 - Chapter 60

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where is Tyler ?

Quin's POVAfter working, I picked up my phone only to realise I had spent more time than we agreed. It was forty minutes later, yet he wasn't back from his walk.I didn't think too much about it at first. Maybe he decided to add an extra ten minutes.I sent a quick text to Billie, to know how she's doing.Sup sis. Hope you're good?Just checking in.Then I decided to dial his number but it went to voicemail mail.We didn't fight or anything, which meant he wasn't trying to ignore my calls. so I should be able to reach him without effort.I put the phone down and picked it back up twice before I caught myself doing it and set it on the desk again.I walked to the window instead and looked out at the street below. People moving around like every normal day after after work.I told myself he had stopped somewhere. Lost track of time.I stood very still for a moment with the phone in my hand.Something was wrong.Tyler wasn't one to ignore calls. Especially mine.After about an hour of p

Warmth as a weapon

Tyler's POV I opened my eyes slowly and the first thing I noticed was the ugly ceiling . The colour was weird as hell. I stared at it for a long moment without moving, letting my brain catch up with the rest of me. The side of my neck ached. more like a deep persistent throb that started just below my left ear and radiated downward into my shoulder. I remembered the hand closing around my arm. The street lights blurring at the edges. Then I remembered Aiden's voice.I told you I'd be back.I tried to sit up. But then I realised my wrists were tied.I slowly brought my head down. My hands were in my lap, bound together at the wrists with something that felt like a zip tie. The moment I tested it, pulling my hands apart instinctively, it bit into my skin, sending the pain straight to my head. I tried my best to stay calm, inhaling and exhaling. Using every last strength in me to push the panic away. It was working but I didn't know how long it would last. The room was

Wrong Address

Quin's POVThe first address Jake sent me to was a commercial building on the east side of the city.It was a four storey structure that housed what appeared to be a series of offices connected to one of Aiden's investment fronts. The lights on the upper floors were still on when I arrived, which meant people were still working, which meant it wasn't the kind of place you brought someone you had taken off a street without their consent.I stood across from it for two minutes anyway.Then I walked the perimeter slowly, everywhere I could. But I found nothing that indicates he could have been brought here.I called Jake."The first address is clean," I said. "It's a working office. He's not here.""I figured that one was unlikely," Jake said. "I sent it because it was registered to the same shell company as the townhouse and I wanted you to have the full picture.""Next time give me the most likely first," I said."You said send all three.""Jake.""Moving on." I could hear him typing.

Dead End

Quin's POVI stood across from the townhouse for a long time.Long enough to map every window. Long enough to figure out about the lights and work out which rooms they were coming from.The curtains on the ground floor moved briefly. Someone was definitely home.I saw two guys that looked like security personnel walking out of the building and I quickly pretended to be a passerby.When I was sure they were gone I quickly went back to surveying the building.I checked for cameras first. There was one above the front door, angled to cover the main entrance and the immediate pavement in front of it. Standard residential setup. Nothing sophisticated. So I moved along the side of the street carefully, staying out of its direct line, and checked the side of the building from a distance.No cameras on the side wall. One at the back corner, but positioned to cover the rear garden rather than the street approach.I looked at the building for another minute.Something felt off. I couldn't locat

A Bargaining Chip

Tyler's Pov My neck felt heavy. Like I had been carrying something really big on it.I slowly opened my eyes but was met with disappointment.I was still in Aiden's house. I was really hoping it was a bad dream. I had gotten tired from looking for what to use to cut the zip tie loose. I couldn't even remember falling asleep the previous night.I adjusted myself on the couch and tried to stretch, checking first to make sure Aiden hadn't returned to do anything sketchy while I was unconscious. The room looked exactly as it had the night before.I was alone. For now.I sat up slowly and took stock of my body. My neck still throbbed where I had been hit. My wrists were sore from the zip tie, the skin around it tender from the times I had pulled against it during the night. My back ached from sleeping on a sofa that was comfortable enough for sitting and considerably less comfortable for an entire night of restless half-sleep.Everything else was functional.I looked around the room again

Almost made it

Tyler's POVThe zip tie had a breaking point.I knew it did because everything had a breaking point. That was the only thought I allowed myself to hold onto as I pressed my wrists against the corner of the table and pulled. The plastic bit into my skin immediately, sharp and insistent, sending a burning sensation up both arms that I breathed through and ignored.I pulled and held. I continued with determination.The angle was wrong. I adjusted, shifting my weight forward on the sofa and repositioning my wrists so the corner of the table caught the plastic at a different point. I could feel the slight give now, barely there but present, like the first hairline crack in something that was about to break properly.I pulled harder.The burn in my wrists intensified but I kept going.I was so focused on the table corner and the pressure that I almost missed the slight change in the sound from the hallway outside. Footsteps that had been moving in a regular pattern, back and forth went comp

The Demand

Quin's POVSleeping wasn't even an option at the moment.How could I sleep when the only reason I've gotten a good sleep for the past few weeks was missing.I was still at my desk when the city outside the window shifted from the deep grey of pre-dawn into the pale reluctant light of early morning. I had been sitting there since two in the morning going through everything Jake had sent across during the night. Financial records, property documents, associate names, company registrations going back years. I had read all of it multiple times, marked everything relevant, called Jake at four in the morning to go through three specific names that kept appearing across different documents in ways that didn't feel accidental.Jake had answered on the first ring.We talked for almost an hour . After that I had sat with everything spread across the desk and my cold coffee and the quiet apartment.By six in the morning I had been through everything Jake had sent and was at the window watching t

The Devil walks into the Board room

Quin's POVI had been standing in front of the window for more than thirty minutes with my phone in my hand and Jake's last update sitting in my head, with Tyler's face from the video sitting behind my eyes, and I had told myself I was thinking strategically and giving Jake the time he needed to break through the Shanghai relay and find the precise location.The truth was that I didn't know which direction to move in yet, and moving in the wrong direction cost time I currently didn't have, so I was standing at the window watching the city operate without me and waiting for something certain to arrive.I hated the waiting part of all this.My phone rang. I looked at it and frowned before answering. Claire called my personal number approximately twice a year, and both times had been genuine emergencies."Mr. McKenzie." Her voice came out low. "I'm sorry to bother you. I know you're dealing with something.""What is it, Claire?""There's a board meeting this morning."I looked out the wi

The Rescue

Tyler's POV I woke up with a throbbing pain in my head. The pain was so intense that I had to lay completely still for a moment without opening my eyes, letting my brain catch up with the rest of me before I attempted anything more complicated than breathing. The surface beneath me was a hard one this time not a sofa. The air smelt and felt different too. I slowly opened my eyes. The ceiling above me was low and unpainted. A single bare bulb in an old fixture. Concrete walls. A thin strip of grey daylight coming through a small window set high in the far wall, close to the ceiling, the kind of window that existed for ventilation rather than visibility. I was in a basement. And I was moved here while I was unconscious. I sat up slowly and my head disagreed with the whole idea of me moving at all. I sat up anyway, pressing the heel of my bound hands against my temple and waiting for the worst of the spinning to settle. The back of my skull was tender in one specific spot that corr

Home Sweet chaos

Quin's POV Sitting beside Tyler felt surreal. For the last thirty-two hours, finding him had been the only thing that mattered. Now he was sitting less than two feet away from me with his head resting against the window and his eyes closed. Safe and alive. I still hadn't fully processed it. Even after calling Ethan to help with getting him out I prayed and hoped he was ok. The moment I had gotten into the elevator leaving the board meeting I contacted him without a single second of hesitation. He had confirmed availability in under minutes. Ethan was an ex military personal who owned a security company. It made perfect sense to involve him even if it was a last minute call. He was one of the few people I trusted in situations that required competence like this. He also owed me a favor from a few years ago. A favor I had collected without hesitation. Aiden had been surprisingly foolish. He had spent so much time planning how to take Tyler and kept him away that he'd apparentl

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