All Chapters of THE CEO'S STOLEN SECONDS : Chapter 91 - Chapter 97

KABOOM!A shoulder-fired rocket smashed into the left marble column of the second-floor balcony, detonating with a blinding fireball and tearing a mountain of ancient stone into a shower of deadly shrapnel."DOWN! GET DOWN!" Christian’s voice roared over the chaos.He tackled me hard, slamming us both onto the vibrating concrete floor just as a wave of scorching air and jagged stone fragments roared above our heads.THWACK-THWACK-THWACK!Concrete dust shot through the corridor, thick as fog, choking my lungs, burning my eyes, filling my mouth with grit. The rest of the grand plaster ceiling overhead finally gave way with a deafening crash, sending slabs of drywall pounding the floor barely three feet from my injured leg."Sierra! Are you hit?!" Christian gasped, his hands frantically checking my shoulders, arms, and ribs, eyes wild with panic. "Talk to me, my heart! Talk to me!""I’m... I’m alive!" I coughed, clutching at my chest as sulfur smoke burned in my throat.My right hand nev

BANG!The executive suite’s heavy mahogany double doors exploded inward with a single, savage kick. Wood splinters scattered across the plush carpet. The brass lock tore out of the frame, and a burst of smoke from a flash charge poured into the room, choking the doorway in a thick, blinding haze.“GET BEHIND ME!” Christian yelled.He charged forward in what felt like a blur. Without hesitation, he grabbed the oak coffee table and flipped it on its side—a CRASH—and just like that, we had a chest-high barricade between the door and my mother, who sat holding the twins. Christian drew his sidearm in the same motion, leveling it toward the smoke-filled doorway, his eyes burning with a lethal intensity.“JULIAN! GET THE CHILDREN TO THE INNER VAULT!” I screamed.My heart pounded against my chest so hard I could barely breathe. The pain in my stitched right thigh meant nothing. Exhaustion wanted to drag me down, but adrenaline kept me moving. I scooped up baby Hope and baby Leo, pressing the

BOOM!A wild, orange fire ripped across the night sky as a sleek black sedan blew up just fifty yards from the subway embankment. The shockwave flattened tall grass and sent burning metal scraps and shattered glass flying right over our heads."GET DOWN! DOWN!" Christian shouted. He threw himself over me, his huge arms locking around my back while concrete dust and scorched debris started raining down.THWACK-THWACK-THWACK — burning embers whistled through the humid air, singeing the edges of the blanket covering our babies."LEO! HOPE!" I screamed, my heart pounding like crazy in my chest.I ignored the stabbing pain in my bandaged thigh and wriggled out from under Christian. I dragged my injured leg across the wet dirt, my hands shaking as I scrambled to pull both infants tight against my chest. I pressed my forehead against Hope’s tiny, warm head, my whole body shaking so hard I could barely breathe."They're okay! They're okay, Sierra!" Beatrice yelled, crawling to shield my back.

SWOOSH!Out of nowhere, a brutal spotlight crashed down from the yacht’s upper deck, trapping us under a harsh white glare that made my skin prickle.CLICK-CLACK-CLICK-CLACK!Overhead, at least twenty hidden sniper hatches hissed open along the carbon-fiber hull. Black muzzles slid forward, cutting through the mist. Red laser dots lit up Christian’s chest, and one burned cold right between my eyes."DON’T MOVE!" Marcus barked in my earpiece—from the blacked-out container yard behind us. "Sierra, you’ve got thermal sights locked on your spot! If we open fire, they’ll blast that pier to splinters!"My heart slammed so hard into my ribs I felt like it might break me in half. Every breath hurt—the sea fog felt like swallowing needles. Pain screamed from my bad leg under the carbon brace, stabbing my right knee like someone twisting a knife. I didn’t move back. I just reached out, fingers shaking, and clutched Christian’s hand tight.His palm was slick with fear and sweat. His whole body t