All Chapters of Married To My Enemy's Pack : Chapter 51 - Chapter 60

For a moment, nobody seemed able to move. And the silence in the study felt heavy, but it was broken only by the faint hum of the equipment on the desk. Then Damian stood to his feet so quickly that his chair struck the floor with a sharp scrape.“Get the gate recording up,” he ordered. “Right now.”Then the security officer hurried to the nearest terminal and began working through the system. Xavier moving beside him and assisted him to bring up the correct feed while Ryder, Kade, and I gathered around the screen. My pulse was already racing fast. After everything that had happened, I was afraid of what the cameras might show, and yet I knew looking away would not change anything.“Here,” the officer said.He stopped the recording.A person wearing an ordinary staff jacket was seen walking out through the main gate. He lowered his head, and his shoulders were slightly bent against the night air. Then he raised a security badge toward the scanner, and a green light appeared, and then

The envelope passed every security check before anyone allowed me to open it. Xavier's team examined it twice, searching for wires, powder, chemicals, or anything that could harm me. But they found nothing. And strangely, I almost wished they had. A hidden threat would have been easier to understand than an ordinary envelope that had been sent for reasons I could not yet see.When the security officer returned it, Damian stood beside me, watching every movement as I opened it carefully and pulled out one sheet of white paper.But it was empty.Kade leaned closer. “That’s all? They sent someone here with an empty page?”“Check the other side,” Ryder suggested.Then I turned it over but saw nothing. No writing, no strange marks, no seal, not even a crease that might suggest another sheet had been attached to it.“Maybe the sender made a mistake,” Kade said.Xavier took the paper from me and raised it toward the window. “Maybe, but I doubt it because there are ways to hide writing from p

I barely remember the moment my legs gave way. For one second, I was standing beneath the bright lights of the hall, and the next, Damian was catching me against his chest. His arms tightened around me as voices rose all around us, chairs scraped across the floor, and glass broke somewhere nearby. Everything became blurred, as though I were sinking beneath deep water.“Get the healer!” Damian shouted. “And clear this room now!”His voice was the only thing I could recognize. I tried to focus on him, but his face kept fading in and out of view. My body felt strangely heavy, and each breath seemed to take more effort than the one before it.“Stay with me, Helena.” His mouth was close to my ear, and I could hear the fear he was trying so hard to hide. “Look at me. Please, just stay awake.”I wanted to answer him, but my tongue felt useless.Ryder got to the healer first. Then he pushed through the frightened guests and brought her toward us while Kade forced a path through the crowd, mov

Cassius came in some minutes later, the night's events still showing all over him after Ryder had dug up the footage into a bigger screen in the security office, and the four men surrounded it.Damian commanded, "Begin from the gate."Then Ryder dragged the footage back to the beginning of the evening, and they watched as Marcus Feld walked through the checkpoint, unhurried, and handed over an invitation that looked exactly like the ones we distributed. "Stop it there," Xavier said. "Cassius, is that paper the same as the official invitations?"Cassius leaned in, studying it closely. "Closer," he said slowly. "Not sure, because the weight is wrong. And ours are printed on a heavier card, but this is a very good copy.""Which means whoever made it had access to an original copy," Ryder said. "That makes it clear," Kade said. "Not to one person, but it's something."Then Ryder advanced the footage frame by frame, tracking Feld's slow, deliberate path through the crowd, pausing near a

I opened my eyes to the sound of rain falling against the window, with my body still very weak and still trying to gather my thoughts together slowly.Kayla had dozed off in the chair beside my bed, with a book open and forgotten in her lap.Then I tried pushing myself up but could only manage a few inches before my arms refused to give in, and all efforts made me feel weaker.Kayla was at my side instantly, helping me rest against the pillows, waking up from the sound of my struggle. "Helena, don't try to sit up yet, because you've been out for days.""How many?" I managed to ask, my voice barely more than a rasp."Five," she said, pressing the water glass to my lips, and I drank slowly, my throat raw. "Three of them you don't remember at all."Then I closed my eyes for a moment, exhaustion pulling at me even now. "Priscilla," I finally said. "What happened to her?"Kayla's expression changed immediately. "Let me go get Damian so you can hear it from him."Then she left before I coul