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CHAPTER 567
The atmosphere at L'Étoile was one of suffocating elegance.Crystal chandeliers hung like frozen rain from the ceiling, and the soft clink of silver against porcelain provided a rhythmic backdrop to the hushed conversations of the city’s elite.Lisa sat at a secluded corner table, her posture rigid. She had spent nearly twenty minutes adjusting her silk scarf and checking her reflection in the back of a polished spoon. On the table before her sat a glass of sparkling water she hadn’t touched. She glanced at her rose-gold watch for the tenth time in three minutes.9:58 AM.She had asked Alicia to arrive around ten. The fact that the woman wasn’t there yet sent a ripple of anxiety through her.“She has to come,” Lisa whispered to herself, her fingers twitching over her phone.She felt the urge to send a Where are you? Text, but forced herself to pull her hand away.In her world, the person who messaged first was the person who was losing. She refused to look desperate, no matter how l
CHAPTER 566
Evelyn didn’t answer. She stood motionless as the nurses helped Maxine into the backseat of the SUV. The door closed with a heavy thud, followed by the unmistakable clack of the child locks engaging.Inside the car, Maxine pressed her forehead against the cool glass.As the vehicle began its long drive away from the city, toward the isolated hills of the countryside, she watched the hospital shrink into the distance.She didn’t know that just three floors below the room where she had been sleeping, her father was fighting for his life on a ventilator. She didn’t know that the world she believed was solid had already begun to collapse.The SUV turned onto the main road.With a soft hiss, the privacy partitions slid upward, sealing her inside a dark, velvet-lined capsule. Her view of the outside world vanished completely.Maxine slumped back into the leather seat, her face contorted with rage."I hope you’re happy, Mother!" she screamed at the soundproof glass. "You’re abandoning me! Y
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Standing before them, as immovable and stern as a mountain, was Thomas.He held a silver tray in one hand, his posture perfectly straight, silver hair groomed with military precision. His gaze swept downward, taking in the scene before him.Nella, clutching her sides, was still catching her breath.Neil, disheveled and panting, his expression carved into one of profound, icy disappointment."Is there a fire in the estate of which I am unaware?" Thomas asked calmly, his voice a low, rhythmic rumble of authority. "Or have the two of you decided to transform the Washington residence into a playground for unruly children?"Neil snapped to attention instantly, smoothing his rumpled suit jacket and attempting unsuccessfully to hide the lingering flush on his face."Thomas. I… we were just… testing reaction times for tomorrow’s mission."Thomas didn’t blink. His gaze slid to Nella, who was still trembling with suppressed laughter."And you, Miss Nella?" he asked evenly. "Is your reaction tim
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He lunged forward, snatching the phone from her hand before she could react. His fingers flew across the screen, opening the contact settings. With a few frantic taps, he deleted the derogatory nickname he’d used for years and replaced it with a single word:LISA."Hey! What are you doing?" Nella snapped, frowning deeply as she reached for the device. "That’s my task, remember? Give it back!"She snatched the phone away just as the call timed out and stopped ringing. The screen went dark."Great! You made me miss it!" Nella scolded, glaring at him. "Why do you care so much about how her name is saved? You’re acting like you’ve been caught hiding a secret."Neil didn’t answer. He stood his ground, his hand hovering near the phone as if he might seize it again.He knew Lisa.If she was calling his old number, she was desperate, and a desperate Lisa was a dangerous variable.He didn’t know what she was planning. He didn’t even know why she was calling now, especially after he’d last che
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Harold had no idea what had happened afterward. When his eyes opened, all he saw were two nurses wheeling him down a blindingly white hallway, their movements frantic, their faces barely visible through his blurred vision.He tried to draw a breath, but his lungs felt as if they were filled with shards of ice and river silt. The nurses’ faces smeared into streaks of white and blue above him."Mother..." he wheezed, but the word died in his throat, muffled by the oxygen mask being pressed over his face.His hand twitched at the side of the gurney, fingers clawing weakly at the air as if he could still reach the woman he had dragged from the depths of the river. He needed to know if she was breathing. He needed to know if his desperate rescue had meant anything at all. But as the heavy doors of the emergency ward swung open, his strength finally gave out. The sheer exhaustion of fighting the current surged over him like a second tide, and his eyes fluttered shut as darkness claimed
CHAPTER 562
Lisa sat in the large living room of her rented apartment.After the disastrous Griffin family dinner, where Otis had tried to stab Tedmond, she had slipped away before anyone noticed her absence. Since that night, no one had contacted her. No one had even realized she was gone.Now, she wasn’t even sure she was needed in the family at all.Lisa paced the length of the plush rug, her footsteps sharp against the floor. She let out a frustrated growl and tossed her phone onto the sofa. The silence of the apartment was beginning to grate on her nerves."A week," she muttered, her voice dripping with bitterness. "It’s been over a week, and not a single text. Not a single "Where are you, Lisa?"She poured herself a glass of wine, her hand trembling slightly with a mix of anger and wounded pride. Slipping away unnoticed was one thing, but being completely forgotten was another. It was as if she were a ghost in her own family, a minor character they had simply stopped writing into the sc
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