All Chapters of I Married My Enemy to Destroy Him: Chapter 111 - Chapter 115

The gunshot came from inside the house.I knew it before the echo disappeared.Lucien moved first.He grabbed my wrist and pulled me behind the stone column as another shot tore through the corridor.“Stay here.”I yanked my hand free.“No.”His dark eyes flashed.“Seraphina—”“You said we were searching together.”For one second, he stared at me.Then something in his expression changed.He nodded.“Together.”We moved.The emergency lights continued flashing across the walls, turning the estate into a maze of red shadows. Somewhere ahead, footsteps thundered across the marble floor.Lucien raised his weapon.I followed his line of sight.Nothing.Then I noticed it.A security camera.Its lens was moving.Tracking us.I pointed.“Someone is watching.”Lucien looked up.The camera suddenly stopped.Then turned toward the opposite corridor.A second later, every light in the hallway went dark.“Move,” Lucien ordered.We ran.A door slammed somewhere behind us.I heard footsteps.Fast.

The sound beneath our feet was small.A click.Then another.But in the silence that followed, it felt louder than the gunshots.I stared at the floor.Something had unlocked beneath the house.Lucien immediately moved toward me.“Stay behind me.”I shook my head.“You knew about the room.”His expression hardened.“I knew there was an old foundation beneath the estate.”“That isn’t what I asked.”A pause.“Yes.”My chest tightened.“You knew.”“I knew there was a room.”“And you never told me?”“I never had proof that it was still accessible.”I held up the photograph.“Then why does my father know about it?”Lucien looked at the message on the back.His face changed.Not fear this time.Recognition.“You’ve seen that handwriting before,” I said.“Yes.”“Where?”He looked at me.“In a file your father left for me.”My pulse quickened.“What file?”Before he could answer, Matteo interrupted.“Lucien.”We both turned.He pointed toward the floor.A thin line had appeared between two ma

“I am your uncle.”The words seemed to crawl beneath my skin.I couldn’t breathe.My uncle.The man standing somewhere above us knew my name, my history, my memories—and apparently the secret my father had spent years trying to bury.Lucien pulled me farther behind the stone staircase.“Stay down.”I barely heard him.My eyes remained fixed on the darkness above.“Show yourself.”My voice surprised even me.The man laughed.“You sound like your father.”I clenched my fists.“Who are you?”“Does it matter?”“Yes.”“Then call me Adrian.”My heart stopped.Lucien immediately looked at me.“Adrian?”I shook my head.“No.”The voice laughed again.“Not Cross.”A pause.“Your uncle.”Lucien’s expression hardened.“What’s his full name?”The man answered from the darkness.“Adrian Vale.”My mind went blank.Adrian Vale.The name meant nothing.Yet something about hearing it made my chest ache.A memory surfaced.A man’s hand holding mine.A deep voice saying, “Never tell your father what I s