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After a brief pause, the voice returned. “Mr. Graves, I've just inquired-Kaia went out on business.”
The answer only tightened the knot in Lucien’s chest.
His assistant’s voice followed quickly, “Sir, we've confirmed Mrs. Graves went to the police station. She was
asking about a colleague named Vanessa-apparently, she’s been missing for several days.”
Lucien’s tone dropped to a command. “Keep digging. Pull every surveillance feed from around the entrance-
now.”
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Kaia cto, disoriented, her wrists bound, the seatbelt digging into her side. The hum of the engine filled her
ears. She was in the backseat of a moving car.
“Awake, huh?” The voice from the driver's seat was ice.
She lifted her head just enough to catch Jerry's face in the rearview mirror-cold, sharp, eyes like steel.
“Where are you taking me?”
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He smirked without looking away from the road. “Relax. You'll find out soon enough. You've been dying to know
about your friend, right? Well... you're about to see her.”
Her pulse kicked hard. “Jerry! What did you do to Vanessa? She never did anything to you. Why hurt her?”
“Please. That idiot thought I liked her.” His tone dripped with contempt. “I only used her to get to you. If she'd
behaved, getting you would've been easy.”
Kaia’s stomach turned. Just as she'd feared-she was his real
target.
“Jerry,” she said quietly, careful not to provoke him, “did we know each other before?”
“Doesn't matter.” His voice hardened. “If it weren't for you, she wouldn't be where she is now. So even if we'd
never met, you'd still deserve to die.”
A flicker of recognition cut through her panic. She took a chance.
“You mean Luna?”
The nhit him like a live wire, “You don’t have the right to say her name!”
The car jolted as he slammed on the brakes. Kaia pitched forward, her forehead cracking against the front seat.
Stars burst in her vision.
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Jerry twisted in his seat, eyes bloodshot, jaw locked. “Luna was kind. Innocent. And you destroyed her.”
He looked at her like he wanted to tear her apart with his bare hands.
Kaia bit down on her lip, fighting to stay conscious.
“Jerry, you're a law grad from a top-tier school. You know she broke the law. She was arrested-it had nothing to
do with me.”
“Nothing to do with you?” His voice cracked into a snarl.
“You only made it big because of the Graves family. You used your man to frLuna. This-" he jabbed a finger
at her “—is all your fault!”
It hit her-he wasn’t just angry. He was unhinged. There was no reasoning with him.
“Okay, calm down,” she said, forcing her voice steady. “Tyingup won't fix anything. You just... want Luna out
of prison, right?”
He gave a low, humorless laugh.
“Kaia, don’t play me. We both know she’s not getting out. If | weren't trained in the law, maybe you could've
fooled me. But I'm not sidiot off the street,”
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His eyes hardened in the rearview mirror. “Sit back and don’t move an inch.”
He stomped on the gas, the car surging forward.
Kaia’s stomach twisted. Years studying the law, and he’d still abandoned reason—he might as well have been
illiterate.
She turned her head to the window. The city was long gone; only empty fields rolled past, the sky stretching wide
and bleak. Her chest tightened with dread.
Then-movement in the distance. A speck in the sky, growing
larger.
Her breath caught. A helicopter.
Her pulse roared in her ears.
Could it be him?
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“Mr. Graves, that’s it-the car! It's Mrs. Graves’ car!”
Lucien’s stomach plummeted. From the helicopter’s window,
the vehicle looked small and fragile against the endless stretch of road.
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“This is a straight run with no forks ahead,” the pilot called over the headset.
“Our ground team still hasn't caught up. And there's no safe landing spot-forcing it down here would be suicide.”
Lucien was already strapping on his harness. “Take us over that sloped grove. I'll rappel down.”
“Sir, that’s insane. Even special forces-"
He cut the man off, locking eyes with the bodyguard. “I trained for this in college. You keep flying and find a
landing zone. I'm going down alone.”
It wasn’t bravado-it was desperation.
The thought of Kaia trapped in that car, maybe hurt, maybe worse, clawed at his chest. He couldn't just hover in
the sky and do nothing.
One look at his face was enough. The cabin went silent. No one dared argue.
Lucien’s gloved hands tightened on the rope, He didn’t even know if Kaia was still breathing.
But he knew one thing-he was going to get her back.
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Inside the car, Kaia’s heart was pounding so hard it felt like it was gonna burst.
“Jerry, how’d you meet her?”
He shot her a look in the rear-view mirror and smirked.
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The sneer softened for just a second, his voice tinged with something almost like nostalgia.
“It wasn't for long, but | owed them.
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parents passedawdi (wore Td pay
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Kaia forced a polite smile. “I see. What a shame.”
“What do you mean by that?” Jerry's
head snapped toward her, EYES TN
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Kaia’s eyes flicked past him, toward the sky,
And her breath caught.
Through the windshield, she caught sight of him-Lucien-
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plunging from the belly of a helicopter, a rope whipping wildly
in the wind.
Her heart lodged in her throat.
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