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REBEL : THE DEADLY HIERESS CHAPTER 16: NORMAL DATE
REBELThe coffee shop is alive with its usual rhythm-steady murmurs of conversation, the hiss of steamed milk, and the comforting scent of coffee mingling with pastries. Daniel sits across from me, completely at ease, his ever-present grin crinkling the corners of his eyes. He's pitching something absurd: a vacation."You're smiling," he says, leaning forward like he's got me figured out. "So, does that mean you're picturing us lounging on some beach without a single assassin in sight?"I smirk, shaking my head. "I'm smiling because the thought of me 'relaxing' while people are actively trying to kill us is hilarious. Don't get used to it."He laughs, that low, easy chuckle that always seems to bubble up no matter the situation. "You're stealing my thing, Rebel. Laughing in the face of danger is kind of my brand.""Maybe I'll give it back when I'm done borrowing it."His laughter fades, replaced by something softer, more serious. He leans in, his voice quieter now. "You don't have to
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2025-03-21REBEL : THE DEADLY HIERESS CHAPTER 17: THE HUNT
REBELThe sand is hot under my feet, but the heat encircling my chest has nothing to do with the sun.A proposal? Now?I keep walking, my heart thudding in my ears, drowning out the waves. I have no idea if I'm angry or tired. Maybe both. Maybe neither. I just know I need space.Behind me, Daniel sighs. Then footsteps. He's following me, of course he is."Rebel," he says.I don't stop. I don't know if I can."Rebel, stop."Part of him makes me hesitate. It's not a command. Not pleading. Unshakeable.I face him, my arms crossed over my chest. He's standing there, still gripping the bloody ring, face impassive."You simply turned around and left," he says, tilting his head like he's trying to figure me out."Yeah, I did," I snap out.His jaw clenches, but his gaze doesn't shift. "Fine. Why?"I catch my breath, fists tightening. "Because, Daniel, we were just fired at. We just had to fight for our lives at a bloody coffee shop, and now you-" I gesture toward the ring. "Now you want to pl
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2025-03-21REBEL : THE DEADLY HIERESS CHAPTER 18: THE HUNT 2
KLAUSThat's why I hate working with lovers.They think with their hearts, not their heads. They make stupid, rash decisions. And the worst part? They don't listen to you.Rebel's already grabbing for her gun, strapping on firepower like she's going to stroll right into the jaws of the enemy, and Daniel-he's looking at her with that same idiot expression. The one that says he'd go to hell and back for her without hesitation.Fools."You're not seriously thinking of going alone," I say, my tone flat.Rebel doesn't even look at me. "Not thinking. I am going alone."I release a harsh breath, dragging a hand down my face. "Do you have a death wish, or are you trying to get on my bad side?""It's not all about you, Klaus," she snaps, slamming a clip into her gun. "Robert is my problem. They want me. That means if I don't go, they'll kill him."I cross my arms. "You're also assuming they'll let him live if you do go."That makes her hesitate. Only for a second. Only long enough for me to pu
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2025-03-21REBEL : THE DEADLY HIERESS CHAPTER 19: BETRAYAL
REBELHis breathing is labored. "You shouldn't have come."A chill runs down my spine.I don't have time to answer.The overhead lights come on abruptly, blinding me for a moment. Then-The cock of firearms.A dozen armed men step out of the blackness.It's a trap.I shove Robert aside, gun held in my hand before the first man can do anything. I shoot twice-one drops immediately, one stumbles away-but I'm already outnumbered.A crack of agony sends me to my knees.I twist, elbowing the man who hit me, but another grabs my arm, twisting it behind my back. Pain flares through my shoulder.I snarl, fighting against the hold, but it's useless.A familiar voice cuts through the chaos."Enough."The room goes still.I lift my head.And there, stepping forward with a casual ease, hands in his pockets like he owns the damn place-Robert.Untied.Unhurt.Standing.My stomach drops.He leans forward, regarding me with something close to regret. "You should have stayed where you were, Rebel."Th
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2025-03-21REBEL : THE DEADLY HIERESS CHAPTER 20: AFTERMATH
MICHAELThe burden of the conversation I had last with her rested on my shoulders as I stepped into the dimly lit hallway, leaving Rebel and Daniel to deal with the turmoil I had unleashed. I had not meant to cause discord, but truth could slice deeper than any blade.Rebel would demand explanations. And Daniel... well, he would have no choice but to give them.As I walked, my mind turned again to the look in her eyes-pain, uncertainty, and something far more evil. Determination.She would not relinquish to this fight.She would follow Daniel, come what may. She's fallen in love. Her care now rests also on him. He's good but I'm not sure he's good enough.And that is what I had to prepare her for.I stepped into the security wing of the compound, an area that had been reinforced as if for war, not negotiations. The guards barely greeted me as I moved into the command center, where video streams streamed on several monitors.Isaac, my second-in-command, looked up from his station. "How
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2025-03-21REBEL : THE DEADLY HIERESS CHAPTER 21: REVELATION
REBEL The moon threw a chill silver glint over the tops of trees as I picked my way silently through the heavy forest, the wet ground cushioning my tread. Every tension in my muscles was drawn to a taut thread of intent, every respiration measured. I had snuck out unbeknownst, moving around the security of the compound like a woman with a lifetime experience of evading those who had thought they could keep her pinned. I didn't need anyone. Not Daniel. Not my father—or handler, as he preferred to refer to himself. This was my problem to solve. Robert had betrayed me. Robert had abandoned me, knowing exactly what it would cost. He knew me well enough to expect that I'd go looking for him. But what he failed to realize—what no one ever quite did—was that I wouldn't hesitate when I found him. I would end it all here once and for all. I tailed him for hours, following a digital trail of breadcrumbs he had so casually left behind. It was too simple, but I was not about to let an oppo
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2025-03-21REBEL : THE DEADLY HIERESS CHAPTER 22: HER BIRTH PARENTS
DANIELI found her.The moment I stepped into the grand estate, my gaze locked onto Rebel. She sat stiffly on an ornate velvet chair, her expression unreadable. The opulence of the place was suffocating—high ceilings, crystal chandeliers, and furniture that screamed old money. But none of it mattered.What mattered was the way she looked at me.Relief flickered in her eyes, but it was buried beneath something heavier—confusion, doubt. The kind of uncertainty that twisted my stomach into knots.Seated beside her were two people I recognized from my research: Jacque Rhodes, billionaire mogul with power in all the wrong places and more, and Princess Carly Rhodes, royalty with an air of untouchable grace. Rebel’s birth parents.Carly turned her sharp gaze on me, assessing, already deciding I wasn’t good enough. Jacque, on the other hand, looked more amused than anything, like he was waiting to see how I’d react.I knew their type. People who thought they owned the world. People who though
Terakhir Diperbarui : 2025-03-21REBEL : THE DEADLY HIERESS CHAPTER 23: BRINGING HER HOME
JACQUE RHODES I used to think that there were only so many moments in life that would move a man to his very foundations. The birth of a child. The death of someone he loved. The realization that he wasn't as in control as he had once thought.Finding out my daughter had been alive all these years? A moment that splintered everything.Carly had cried when we met her. She hadn't cried that way in years-not when we buried the child we believed was gone, not when the years went by with no answers. But there she was, real and alive, standing before us with piercing eyes and a suspicious look that said of struggles we had never stood beside her to fight.And then, just as abruptly as she came-she left.I held the edges of my desk so tightly my knuckles whitened. The glass of whiskey before me went untasted. The storm outside the house matched the one raging inside me.She left with him.That man. Daniel.A stranger. But within that one look, I hated him. Not for believing him unworthy. Bu
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REBEL : THE DEADLY HIERESS CHAPTER 51: THE CON
MIA Please.....please, don't kill me, I'd do better ma'am, the next shot will be accurate, there'd be no traces Shadow, give me one last chance. Fool. I take an indifferent look over the tied, shivery fool my men brought back. "Tsk....you have sentenced yourself to death the moment you called me Shadow. To the world I am just Mia, dumb, blonde Bimbo and that's how it will remain so you cannot walk out of here alive, you're a loose end." I take a knife and slash his throat ignoring his struggle as blood spills everywhere. I move to the bathroom of the ensuite we're presently at then wash my hands thoroughly. I take a phone call " It's done Don. They don't know who I am, not Robert, not Daniel, not Jacque or even Rebel that you fear so much. The man who can identify me has been killed hence you can relax, there is no threat". I cut the call They all consider me useless, incapable, just a sex toy yet I am one of the most fearful assassins alive. I took down Michael and until t
REBEL : THE DEADLY HIERESS CHAPTER 50: REALITY CHECK
ROBERT I shouldn't have left her like that. The second the door slammed behind Mia and me, the house felt thicker, as if her crying had soaked into the walls. I heard it even after we passed the midpoint on the block. Hell, I could even feel it. But I walked on anyway. That's just the sort of thing I always used to do with my messes: walk away, especially from ones that didn't involve bloodshed where they landed on the floor. Mia glared at me from the passenger seat, biting her split lip, looking at me that funny way of hers, like a cat holding herself in check waiting for the right moment to spring. She never said anything. She didn't need to. She'd won. Again. And I? I wasn't quite sure whether I'd lost or if I'd just cemented Louisa's suspicions. Eight years ago, I took her out of a rehab center, half dead, skin hanging off bone, eyes dead, no glint. I didn't question her why. I recognized that broken. I'd worn it myself more times than I was willing to admit. Rescuing
REBEL : THE DEADLY HIERESS CHAPTER 49: HE IS MINE!
LOUISA The night was quieter than usual. I sat cross-legged on the arm of the posh leather couch that Robert had christened his throne, listening to the dark TV as the jumping light danced over the walls of the living room. He was across the room, bent double over some papers, his desk lamp casting the prominent planes of his face into relief. A face I once thought was that of my savior. A face that I couldn't help but hate and love recently. "You know, I never asked you why," I breathed, but it was sufficient to make him tense in his chair. His pen hung in mid-air. He didn't turn around, not yet. "Why what, Lou?" "Why me?" I swallowed a lump. "Why did you save me eight years ago?" The words burst out before I could take them back. Silence. The air grew heavier, more oppressive with each passing second he didn't react. I hated that. I hated him for rescuing me. For granting me this half-life. For pretending the past was a locked box we both gagged on. When he finally turned, the
REBEL : THE DEADLY HIERESS CHAPTER 48: ATTACK
REBEL After leaving Mex and Michael back home with Klaus, there was no conversation about the ordeal that didn't catch my attention The rain started before the lie did. Daniel had been calling incessantly but I just didn't pick up. I stood in the shade of the awning on the old café where I was to meet my mother and see the downpour cut the street into halves. The air had a strong smell of asphalt and forgotten memories. My phone tingled in my hand for the fifth time in two minutes or less. Unknown Number. I did not answer. I didn't need to because I know who the caller is. But then a shadow fell over me, dark and high enough to strike a hard pang twisting into my chest. Daniel. Suit crisp, tie loose, and eyes softer than I was expecting. "You weren't going to call me," he said, not a question. I shrugged. "I didn't think I had to." He stood there, jaw working, rain dripping off his hair. "You do now." A black SUV skidded to a stop across the street. Doors slammed o
REBEL : THE DEADLY HIERESS CHAPTER 47: SHE'S BACK
ROBERT The air in the evening smelled of gasoline and rain, the kind of smell that had you believe something was going to happen. My phone buzzed once against the old wooden desk, and I already knew. News like that didn't take till morning. "Rebel's back," the message read. Two words, enough to make my fingers lock on the glass of whiskey I'd been drinking. I stood up, working the kink out of my back, and walked across the apartment to where Louisa was curled on the worn leather couch. She glanced up from her book, her eyes sharp despite the softness of her face. Rehab hadn't killed the edge in her, just muted it long enough for me to haul her out. "You okay?" she'd ask, each time something twisted behind my eyes. "Rebel's back," I said, and the name itself made her stand up straight. She knew better than to think the rest, even if she didn't know the story. A knock preceded her finishing the sentence. Even. Measured. I opened the door to find Viktor standing in the doorwa
REBEL : THE DEADLY HIERESS CHAPTER 46: MENDING FENCES
KLAUS It was a still night, but still had never been quiet for me. Not anymore. Not since the day Rebel went missing from his life, not since the day her scent went missing from every corner of his universe. And now, seven years later, silence fell heavy with ghosts. My ghosts. Our ghosts. I stayed at the balcony, clutching a glass of whiskey that I did not drink. I no longer drank it—the bitter liquor had ceased to sear the day she died. But the glass was still in my hand, out of habit. As with the stump-like ache of a lost limb so many years before, I kept holding things I could not let go of. When I next heard her name, I thought my brain was pulling its most vicious trick yet. But Daniel had sworn to it. Rebel was alive. Rebel had been alive all this while. And she had sons. Michael and Mex. Twins. I wasn't their father, but the way those boys stood in front of me, guarding and snapping, gave me all I needed to know. They belonged to them. She'd raised them into miniatu
REBEL : THE DEADLY HIERESS CHAPTER 45: THE MORNING AFTER
REBEL The sunlight slants through the tall glass windows, brushing gold over my bare skin. My head is pounding like a war drum, and my mouth tastes like regret. My body aches in places I’ve ignored for years—emotions I’d locked up, now clawing at the surface with wicked fingers. Daniel's sleeping beside me, arm thrown across my waist like he has a right to hold me there. I look up at the ceiling, not trusting myself to inhale too heavily. Because the second I breathe in too much, it all comes crashing back. The fight. The kiss. The bed. His teeth against my skin like I belonged to him. And the worst part? I let him. I swing my legs over the bed and stand up, slowly. Carefully. As if perhaps I might avoid the reality of last night if I just moved slowly enough. I find my dress rumpled on the floor and smooth it back on over shuddering fingers. I need air. Slipping out of the room, I don't even pause. I don't leave a note. Don't glance back. I just run. — I
REBEL : THE DEADLY HIERESS CHAPTER 44: MAKE UP?
DANIEL She resists for while but I'm too far gone to listen. She whispers "Stop" but I don't stop. My fingers finds their way to her clit, stroking her till she climaxes before slamming into her continously, leaving her no room for rejection, like a starved beast raging into her with no breaks, going at it for hours continously, orgasm after orgasm, like life would end if I wasn't in her because truly for me life ended without her. The silence in the suite isn't peaceful—it's tempestuous, the kind that's waiting for it to burst all over again. She won't speak. Not even look at me. Her back is facing me now, the elegant shape of her spine stiffening in defiance. I can still feel her lips on mine, the memory of her heat pressed against my face. And she's already elsewhere. Rebel. It was like existing in a world of grayscale without Rebel. The days blurred together—meetings, deals, conversations faceless—but each instant felt empty. I had power, riches, control. but it was all me
REBEL : THE DEADLY HIERESS CHAPTER 43: A SECOND CHANCE
REBEL Daniel gets mad but has no reason to; he was in the wrong, he will have to get used to seeing the reality and aftermath of what he did. "I've got nothing to say to you, Daniel." He dismisses me. Rather, he gets down to Michael's level, speaking softly. "Mike, your mom and I will go out to eat to talk. Klaus will take you home. Say goodbye to your grandparents. There are others relocating Mex as we speak—medical staff are already at home waiting for him." Michael nods. "Okay, Daddy." That title—Daddy—catches me off guard like a wall of bricks. My lips part but nothing emerges. I'm shocked into silence. My mother tries to speak, her lips trembling with words she must not say, but I headshake. It's not time now. Daniel doesn't look back as he takes my elbow in his and leads me off like some prisoner in his court. He doesn't even request permission, doesn't ask—it's the same sort of dominance I once found thrilling and now find… perilous. He opens the car door, waits
