Lahat ng Kabanata ng BETRAYED BY MY FIANCE; REBORN AS HIS OBSESSION: Kabanata 101 - Kabanata 108

By midnight, Lyra had stopped crying.The grief remained, heavy in her chest, but it had settled beneath something harder. Her mother was dead. Project Hawk had taken her brother years ago, and now Lyra finally had a name, a key, and a place to begin.The winter house.Hayden drove while Lyra sat beside him, turning the small metal key between her fingers. Two security vehicles followed along the dark coastal road before they turned inland toward the hills.“You should let the paramedics' report confirm everything before we move,” Hayden said.“Lydia is dead.”“I know.”“Then there's nothing left to confirm.”He glanced over. “I'm not asking you to stop. I'm asking you not to let grief make every decision for you.”Lyra looked out at the passing darkness. “Grief isn't making this decision. My brother is.”Hayden didn't argue.The winter house stood beyond a line of old cypress trees, hidden behind a stone wall and an iron gate. Lyra remembered it vaguely: cold mornings, her father's w

By midmorning, Leo had checked the lock on his bedroom door six times.Lyra knew because the security team had installed a discreet sensor after Hayden explained that the young man might panic if he felt trapped. She had asked them to remove it, then changed her mind when she realised she was making decisions about Leo without asking him.She instructed the team to leave his room alone. No cameras, no monitoring, and no one was to enter without Leo’s permission. It was a small concession, but it was the first thing she could give him without demanding anything in return.Downstairs, Hayden stood at the dining table with the West Bridge reports spread before him. A laptop displayed the records his technical team had recovered before the facility's servers went offline.“Anything useful?” Lyra asked.“Incomplete transfer logs and a list of scheduled movements,” Hayden said, turning the screen toward her. “Most of it was damaged or had been deliberately erased.”“And the manager?”“The i

By midnight, Lyra understood why her father had lost everything to keep his legacy hidden.Sitting in the secure conference room at Moretti Tower with Hayden and Leo, she reviewed the files recovered from the records facility. At the top of the executive authorisation records stood a single name: Gideon Cross. Below it lay transactions connecting Vance Biotech, the Hawk Society, and international financial institutions.“Your father didn't create the Hawk Society,” Hayden said, examining the final document. “He built a financial intelligence system to detect fraud and market manipulation. Cross turned it into a weapon.”“An artificial intelligence,” Leo realised, scanning the development notes.Hayden nodded. “An advanced AI trained on the strategic records of the original Vance founders. Cross expanded its authority until it could initiate actions, manipulate markets, and alter identities. The system grew more powerful than any single person operating it.”That was why Richard Vance

The first morning after Project Hawk fell, Lyra woke up to silence.For months, silence had signaled danger, its tense lull before the next threat or alert. But this morning, her phone lay quiet. Sunlight filtered through the curtains, warming the cool air.Hayden stood near the window, holding two coffee cups. When he noticed her stir, he walked over and handed her one.“You're staring,” he said softly.“Checking if you're real.”A faint smile touched his face. “Your conclusion?”“Still under investigation.”He laughed softly, an ordinary sound that made Lyra smile before she could stop herself. She took a sip of coffee. “What's the damage?”“Financially, Vance Biotech has lost several international contracts,” Hayden replied. “A few subsidiaries are under review, and the board wants an emergency meeting today. But Project Hawk is disconnected, the systems are isolated, and Cross remains in custody.”Lyra nodded slowly. It wasn't a clean victory, but for the first time, an invisible