All Chapters of The Bride He Refused to Lose : Chapter 31 - Chapter 34

The reinforced underground bunker fell into a complete, suffocating silence.Lorrie stared blankly at the dark master monitor, the final image of her mother’s fragile, unconscious body burned into her retinas."No..."Her voice cracked, a fragile, hollow sound against the steel walls."No... no, please..."She rushed blindly toward the dark glass console as if she could somehow tear through the digital display and pull her mother to safety. "My mother... they have my mother..."Matteo immediately whipped out his tactical satellite phone, his fingers flying across the keypad. "I'll contact our private security detail stationed at the hospital clinic. We have a tier-one protocol for—" He paused, staring at the screen. Nothing. He aggressively redialed, hitting the manual bypass. Again, absolute static."The tactical lines are completely dead, Lorenzo," Matteo reported, his face grim as he looked up. "They’ve deployed a localized military-grade frequency jammer. They’re blocking every ce

The harsh green coordinates continued to glow relentlessly on Matteo's tactical laptop, cutting through the dim lighting of the underground bunker.No one spoke. No one breathed."They're inside Dimitri Holdings," Matteo repeated, the gravity of the words settling like a lead weight.Lorenzo's expression remained completely unreadable, a flawless mask of carved stone. Only the slight, violent tightening of his jaw betrayed the absolute fury racing beneath his skin."Are you entirely certain, Matteo?"Matteo nodded slowly, his fingers steady but his face pale. "I traced the satellite uplink signature three separate times. It bounced across seventeen dummy servers worldwide before returning to a localized origin point right here in Manhattan." He tapped a macro-key, enlarging a highly detailed, 3D digital blueprint of the skyscraper. "It’s coming from the executive floor. Your private sanctuary."Lorrie's brow furrowed in utter confusion. "But that's impossible. Lorenzo, you told me you