Contract With My Hidden Enemy 의 모든 챕터: 챕터 21 - 챕터 26

The sound of my own name leaving her lips felt terrifying. “Vienne.” Nobody dared to fire at her. Not even Silas and certainly not the armed men that came here full of energy and was ready to drop us all dead. The woman stood there watching everyone. Everyone was watching her too. None of us knew what was going to happen next or what we were going to do. Elias and Silas looked confused too as though they didn’t know she was the one we were going to meet once the elevator slid open. Suddenly her gaze stopped on me, staring at me like she was watching me deeply. She wore a tattered white hospital gown. Her dark hair was matted, falling over her pale shoulders. But it was her face—the high curve of her cheekbones, the shape of her eyes... it was like looking at a cracked reflection of myself from twenty years in the future. Beside me, Silas slowly stepped forward. His weapon remained raised. But something had changed. His entire body had gone rigid. Like a man staring at a ghost.

I tightened my hands against my pistol. Victor noticed that and he smiled. His smile disgusted me fr. It wasn’t cute but very dangerous. I didn't move. I barely even couldn’t breathed. The pistol was still pressed firmly against my palm inside my pocket, I had planned to bring it out immediately but with four automatic pistol pointed directly at my chest, pulling it out would be a suicide mission. The four armed men surrounded me they didn’t even think of going to Elias. Why would they? Obviously it was me they came for. "Victor," Elias said, his voice dropping into a low, shaky tone as he slowly raised his hands into the air. "She doesn't know anything. Julian hasn't told her anything. Please Let her go."Victor Laurent let out a soft, dry chuckle that sounded rough like his teeth was hurting him. He leaned lightly on his silver-headed cane, his cold blue eyes fixed on me through the blinding glare of the flashlight."Elias, always the honorable fool," Victor murmured, his voice s

The words burned into the holographic glass, casting a cold, eerie crimson light across my face.WELCOME BACK, HEIR.The silence that followed was so suffocating, it felt heavy enough to suffocate us all. The only sound in the heart of Level Four was the low, rhythmic hum of the damaged mainframe. "What..." My voice was barely a squeak, the word dying in my throat before it could truly form. I stared at the screen, my mind spinning so fast that the text started looking blurry. Heir? Heir to what?Julian stepped fully out of the smoke on my right, his gray eyes blown wide as he stared at the console. The arrogant smirk he usually wore was completely wiped clean, replaced by a look of shock."That's impossible," Julian whispered, his hands tightening into fists that was so hard that you could see it through his knuckles. "The Caelthorne encryption was built on a dual-protocol system. It was supposed to require both of our signatures. It shouldn't have bypassed the biometric lock for he