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Chapter 101

THIRD PERSON Arianna woke up already tired. She lay still for a moment, looked at the ceiling and let the previous evening come back: the pregnancy test on the floor, Nikolai's footsteps closing the distance, the phone ringing at exactly the moment it needed to. Her hand moved to her stomach without her deciding to move it. She stared at the ceiling. Then she turned her head and Noah was there beside her, still asleep. She looked at him for a while before she moved, brushed the hair from his forehead, pressed her lips to it, and stayed bent over him a second longer than necessary. Everything she had done for five years, she had done for this face. She got up. Breakfast was the same as usual. Noah talked about school, his class photograph. His friend with the red jumper. A game involving something competitive that he had won, details of which he delivered with great satisfaction. Arianna listened and smiled at the right moments and moved food around her plate. The smell of the e
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Chapter 102

THIRD PERSON The image would not leave her. Arande sat on the edge of the hospital bed and stared at the floor and kept thinking about the woman in the corridor, the trembling hands, the papers scattering, the way she had pulled her scarf tighter and refused to lift her head. She had been frightened. The consent form. Arande had read it in the second before the woman snatched it back. Pregnancy termination. She sat and thought about that. A woman was carrying a child and had decided to get rid of it. Arande had been sitting with a fear she hadn't named. What if she couldn't? What if the one thing that could change Nikolai's calculus, that could make walking away feel impossible rather than just difficult, was something her body was never going to give her? She needed a child, and the corridor had just shown her a woman who was trying to get rid of one. The smile that appeared on her face was slow, and had nothing to do with warmth. Why would someone throw away something like t
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chapter 103

THIRD PERSON She stood with the phone still pressed against her ear long after the call had ended. The nurse's voice was gone. The line was silent. But the words were still moving through her, and she needed a moment to let the picture finish forming before she could respond to it. *Connected to the Volkov mansion.* That person was not a stranger, and not a woman from another world who had happened to wander into the same hospital corridor on the same morning. Someone who lived inside the same walls she did, who walked the same hallways, who had been carrying a secret under the same roof where Arande had been carrying hers. She lowered the phone. "So you were hiding under my roof," she said, to the room. The smile that came was the kind she never showed in public. The nurse had been thorough by telling her the address, giving her a contact number, and information assembled from the intake records. The address was this address. The mansion's address. She put the phone in her p
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chapter 104

THIRD PERSON Arande left the room feeling lighter than she had in months. The maid walked back through the corridor toward the kitchen and told herself that someone knew and hadn't destroyed her, that someone had looked at what she was carrying and said she should keep it, and that was more than anyone else had offered her. She didn't ask herself why. She was tired enough that she accepted the gift without examining the hand giving it. The afternoon went by in the usual rhythm. But Konstantin was still there. That was the thing she couldn't set down no matter how much lighter Arinade had made everything else. He was in his apartment on the other side of the estate, and at some point tonight she would have to go there with his tea and she would have to stand in front of him and be read, because Konstantin Morozov read people like documents. She remembered the last conversation. His voice when he said this pregnancy has to disappear. The money he had placed on the table between
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chapter 105

THIRD PERSON The mansion was still dark when Arande's eyes opened. She lay still for a moment, listening to the quiet distant sound of a garden sprinkler, the gate somewhere, then she reached for her phone. The call connected quickly. She spoke quietly. Everything was in place, the man confirmed. The location was prepared. The woman she had requested for was ready. A nurse had been arranged. "Send the car," Arande said. "She'll be coming out soon." She ended the call and dialed the maid. The maid woke to the vibration against the nightstand. She saw the name and answered before she was fully upright, her voice still carrying sleep. "Don't take anything," Arande said. "Nothing from the room. Everything you need is already there. Come to me now, quietly. Don't let anyone see you." The maid dressed in the dark. She moved through the corridor carefully. Arande was waiting at the side entrance when she got there, and they left without speaking. The car was already there. Onc
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chapter 106

THIRD PERSON Pov The main hall had never felt this small. Every member of the household stood in it — maids, gardeners, drivers, security staff, kitchen workers — shoulder to shoulder, waiting to understand what they had done. The air was tight. Nobody spoke above a murmur and even the murmuring stopped when Konstantin walked to the center of the room. He stood there and looked at them all. He had the patience for this kind of silence. He had always had the ability to let a room sit in its own anxiety without feeling the need to fill the space immediately. It was a form of control that cost him nothing and produced a great deal. Then he spoke. He said a family gold collection of cash had gone missing from his private apartment. A maid, the one assigned to his rooms, was also missing. He wanted the estate locked down. Every entrance, every exit. Every room searched. Every person questioned individually until someone explained to him where she was. The security team moved immediat
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chapter 107

THIRD PERSON Pov: When Nikolai heard what Arianna had said, he stood transfixed to the spot. And for the fact that she ended the call so quickly, something was fishy. He walked toward her. His hand found her wrist before she could turn properly, closing around it and stopping her movement. She turned to face him, looking like someone who had been caught and was now deciding how to respond to that. "Who were you talking to?" Nikolai asked, trying to keep his voice steady. Arianna kept quiet. "Was it Rafael?” He asked again. "No." She pulled her wrist back and he let it go. "It was my father." "Your father." He said flatly. "Yes." She held his gaze. "I've reached my limit, Nikolai. I want to work. I want to go outside. I want to see people who aren't security guards stationed outside my door." Her voice was controlled but the frustration in it was real. "When I said get rid of it, I meant the stress. I meant this." She gestured at the space between them, at the house, and at th
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chapter 108

THIRD PERSON Pov The cabin was the quietest place the maid had been in months. She sat on the bed and looked around the room and felt the absence of footsteps in the corridor outside, the absence of Konstantin's voice somewhere in the house, the absence of the tension that came from living in a space where you were useful but not safe. The room was small. The furniture was plain. The cook knocked and came in with the tray. The smell of the soup reached her before the woman had fully set it down. It was warm, and savory. Chicken, rice, vegetables and juice, everything was set out neatly on the small table beside the bed. "Anything else, call me," the woman said. The nurse was somewhere in the other part of the house, occupied with something. The maid ate alone. She ate slowly and thought about her child. She placed her hand on her stomach between bites and tried to imagine the future that had seemed impossible three days ago, the one where she was somewhere safe and the baby ar
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The dust was still floating in the air from the broken wall when a slim figure in armor stepped calmly through the jagged hole. Kayla stood on the second-floor landing, her cold eyes scanning the big room below. Then she jumped over the marble railing and dropped two full stories, landing without a sound like it was nothing. Kenan laughed loudly from the middle of the foyer, turning away from the shocked twins. "You really thought you were so smart, huh?" he sneered, straightening his fancy jacket. "We knew Sergey was dead before we even got to the gate. And we knew his kids had teamed up with Player 001 right away." Kayla stepped closer, staring straight at Ara, who was slowly pushing herself up off the floor. "Hand over the flash drive with the NexMind files, Ara," she said flatly. "You don’t have enough health left to survive this." Ara’s hand moved to her pocket without thinking. Right before Kayla had smashed her through the wall, she’d quickly hidden the drive there. She
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chapter 110

THIRD PERSONThe nurse worked quietly.She checked the pulse, the blood pressure, and the breathing. The maids stood at the edges of the room. Nikolai stood closer, watching.When Arianna's eyes opened, the first thing she saw was the nurse's face. The second was Nikolai behind her, still and unreadable.She thought about the pregnancy. She became afraid. She was lying here, this woman was checking her, and if she said anything…As the nurse leaned closer, Arianna's hand found the fabric of her uniform. She pulled her in, barely a movement, enough to create a private inch of distance from the room."Please," she whispered. Her voice had almost nothing in it. "Don't tell him. I'm pregnant but please…not yet. I need more time. Please."The nurse looked at her. She looked at her for long enough to read everything Arianna hadn't said — the fear behind the words, the weight of what was being asked, and how desperate she was.She said nothing. She simply nodded, and turned back to her work
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