Lahat ng Kabanata ng In Love with my Father’s Serial Killer : Kabanata 171 - Kabanata 180

Daniella didn’t speak during the drive back to the old house.She sat beside Christian in silence, staring through the window while her uncle drove ahead of them. Every word he had spoken at the training compound kept replaying in her mind.I created Crown Meridian.I killed your father.I trained you to become a weapon.She had spent thirteen years believing her uncle had saved her from the monster who murdered her father. She had trusted every lesson, every warning and every piece of information he had given her.Now she couldn’t tell which memories were real and which had been carefully constructed for her.Christian reached across the space between them and took her hand.Daniella looked down at their joined fingers.“I don’t know who I am anymore.”Christian’s voice was quiet. “You don’t have to figure that out tonight.”“He made me.”“No.”She looked at him.“He trained you. That’s different.”“It doesn’t feel different.”“It is.”Daniella swallowed.“My entire life has been bui

Daniella stared at the injured man on the floor, unable to shake the words he had just spoken. “You’ve been looking for the wrong monster.”Her eyes moved slowly toward her uncle. The room seemed to grow smaller as she studied his face, searching for another lie. There had been too many already. Too many secrets, too many carefully constructed stories, too many years of believing something that had never been true.“Who ordered you to kill my father?” she asked.Her uncle remained silent.Christian stepped forward, his expression hardening. “Answer her.”The man’s eyes flickered toward Christian before a faint smile appeared on his bloodied face. “You really believe him?”Christian’s jaw tightened. “Believe who?”The man laughed weakly. “Everyone in this story has been lying.”Daniella crouched in front of him. “Then start telling the truth.”He looked at her for several seconds before speaking. “Your father wasn’t killed because of Crown Meridian.”Daniella’s eyes narrowed. “My uncle

The old church stood at the edge of the city, surrounded by overgrown trees and a rusted iron fence that looked as though nobody had touched it in years. Daniella remembered the place clearly, even though she had spent most of her life trying not to think about it. She had been five years old when her uncle brought her there after her father’s death. She remembered the rain that night, the smell of wet soil and the way her uncle had held her hand so tightly that it hurt.She had always thought he had brought her there because he was trying to comfort her.Now she wasn’t sure of anything.Christian parked several meters away from the church rather than directly in front of it. Daniella noticed immediately.“You think someone is watching us?”“I think we’ve learned enough not to assume we’re alone,” he replied.She nodded.They got out of the car, and Daniella immediately felt the atmosphere change. The church looked abandoned from the outside, but the lock on the front gate was new. So

The sound of the engines outside grew louder.Daniella stood completely still, the USB drive clenched tightly in her hand. Through the darkened windows of the old church, she could see headlights moving between the trees. One car became two, then three. Whoever had come for them had not come alone.Christian stepped in front of her.“Give me the drive.”Daniella looked at him. “Why?”“Because if they take you, they’ll take it with you.”She tightened her grip. “They’re not taking either.”Marcus moved toward the side entrance. “There are at least six vehicles.”Christian looked at him. “How many exits?”“Two.”“Then we’re not fighting our way through the front.”Daniella glanced toward the altar. “There’s another way.”Marcus turned. “What?”“When I was a child, my uncle used to bring me here. There was a passage behind the side room.”“You remember where it leads?”“Outside the cemetery.”Christian immediately nodded. “Show us.”They moved through the dark church as quietly as possib

Daniella stared at Elena Voss, unable to process the words she had just spoken. The woman stood several feet away, calm despite the tension filling the hotel room. She had walked in as if she had expected to find them there, and somehow, that made Daniella trust her even less.“You said the person controlling Raven is someone I have known for years,” Daniella said slowly. “Someone I trusted.”Elena nodded.Christian stepped closer to Daniella, his expression hardening. “Then stop speaking in riddles. Who is it?”“I can’t tell you yet.”Christian’s jaw tightened. “You came here knowing what we were investigating. You followed us. You knew about Raven before we did. Now you’re telling us someone close to Daniella controls an organization that has been manipulating her entire life, and you expect us to believe you without an explanation?”“I expect you to understand that saying the name in this room could get all three of you killed.”Marcus remained near the door, his hand resting close