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Raymond’s gaze sharpened as he watched Miranda and Eleanor across the restaurant. They were deep in conversation, their expressions tense, their gestures restrained yet urgent. Whatever they were discussing, it wasn’t casual. He took a calculated step forward to their table, making his presence known. Eleanor was the first to notice him. Her posture stiffened, but she masked it quickly with a charming smile. “Raymond,” she greeted smoothly as if she hadn’t just been caught whispering with Miranda. “What a surprise.” Miranda turned, her expression unreadable, though Raymond could see the flicker of unease and panic in her eyes. It was brief, but it was there. “Ladies,” he greeted coolly. “Didn’t expect to find you both here.” what a coincidence. Miranda was the first to recover, smoothing out her blazer as she gave him a practiced smile. “Business discussions. You know how it is right?.” Raymond didn’t respond right away. Instead, he glanced at the untouched glasses of wine on t
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The hospital room was quiet except for the steady beeping of the heart monitor. Chloe sat up against the pillows, her fingers tightening around the blanket as she stared at Michelle, who sat beside her. The weight of the past few days hung between them—Chloe’s attack, the threatening note Michelle received, and now, an unsettling silence. Michelle could tell something was wrong. "Chloe, you need to tell me what's going on," And I mean everything. Michelle urged, her voice gentle but firm. "I know you’re scared, but keeping secrets won’t help." Chloe hesitated, her lips parting as if to speak, then closing again. She let out a shaky breath. “I should have told you this a long time ago,” she said finally. “But I didn’t know how to bring it up.” Michelle frowned. “Told me what?” Chloe lowered her gaze, her fingers gripping the blanket tighter. “I was adopted.” Michelle blinked. “What?” “My last name has always been Bennett, but my biological parents… they weren’t the people I gre
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Michelle stared at Alex, her fingers tightening around the photograph. Chloe, much younger, standing beside someone she didn’t recognize—but the resemblance was uncanny. There was no denying it. It was definitely one of Chloe's parents or relatives.Her pulse pounded. “What do you mean by, ‘who she was supposed to be’?”Alex exhaled sharply, rubbing the back of his neck. “Michelle, Chloe isn’t just some ordinary girl with a lost past. She wasn't just an adopted child, she came from a family so powerful and dangerous that most people don’t even say their name out loud.”Michelle’s grip on the photograph tightened. “That doesn’t make any sense. Chloe was adopted as a baby. She doesn’t even know who her real parents are.”Alex gave a humorless chuckle. “Yeah? Well, someone sure as hell knows her.” He motioned toward the photo. “And they’ve been waiting for the right time to find her.”Michelle felt a lump form in her throat. “Who are they?”And why are they looking for her?Alex hesitated
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A heavy silence filled the hospital room, thick with the weight of Miranda’s revelation.Michelle’s mind raced. Raymond’s family… connected to the people Chloe had been running from? How was that possible?Chloe was trembling, her breath uneven as if the air had been knocked out of her lungs. “That doesn’t make any sense,” she whispered.Miranda’s smirk deepened. “Oh, sweetheart. The truth rarely does.”Michelle’s jaw tightened. “You’re lying.”“Am I?” Miranda tilted her head, her amusement only growing. “Then by all means, keep digging. But don’t say I didn’t warn you when you find yourself in danger.”Before Michelle could fire back, Miranda turned on her heel and strolled out of the room, leaving behind a suffocating tension.Michelle barely noticed Chloe’s shaking hands clutching the blanket. Her own thoughts were spinning too fast.She needed answers. And she needed them now.Michelle stood outside Alex’s apartment door, her heart pounding. She had spent the last hour pacing, try
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A chilling breeze swept through the hospital parking lot as Michelle stepped outside, her thoughts still tangled from her conversation with Alex. The revelation that Chloe had been hidden—erased—only made things more complicated.But why? Who was after her? Why did they need to hide her existence? And how did this connect to Raymond’s family?She exhaled sharply, gripping her phone. She needed more answers.A vibration in her palm made her jolt. A message.Miranda: Told you to stop digging. But since you won’t… let’s play a game.Michelle’s pulse quickened as a second message came in—a picture.Her stomach twisted. It was the hospital’s front entrance, the shot clearly taken from a distance. Chloe was in the frame, just barely visible as she walked along the pathway, completely unaware of the danger she was about to find herself in.A sick feeling settled in Michelle’s gut.Miranda was watching.Chloe wrapped her arms around herself, breathing in the crisp evening air. She had been re
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The hospital’s dim hallway buzzed with quiet activity as Michelle sat by Chloe’s bedside, her mind racing. The attack earlier had really shaken her to the core, but it had also ignited something within her—determination. The determination to find answers and reveal their dirty deeds, even though she knew she was putting herself in danger by doing so. Chloe had barely spoken a word since she returned to her hospital room. The doctor had treated her scrapes and bruises, but the fear in her eyes remained. What had just happened had truly shaken her. “Are you sure you didn’t see their face at all?”Maybe their eyes or anything that can be used to identify them? Michelle asked, keeping her voice steady. Chloe shook her head. No “They wore a mask. But the way they moved—it wasn’t random. They wanted to make sure I didn’t survive.” If those couples hadn't shown up when they did, maybe I would be dead by now. Michelle clenched her fists, a mixture of anger and dread settling in her chest.
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A cold wind swept through the streets as Michelle sat in a quiet café where she was waiting for Alex. She had called him to meet her, her fingers curled around a steaming cup of coffee. She barely tasted it—her mind was elsewhere, filled with thoughts. So many things were going on in her head. Alex’s words repeatedly echoed in her head. "You don’t understand the people you’re messing with." He hadn’t been exaggerating. The deeper she dug, the more tangled this web became and the more she felt uneasy. And now, with Chloe’s past connecting to the Hawthorne name, it was clear—this wasn’t just about Miranda, Eleanor, or their schemes. It was way bigger than that. The bell above the café door chimed, snapping her out of her thoughts. She looked up to see Alex approaching, his expression grim. He slid into the seat across from her. “Tell me you’ve stopped digging.” Michelle shook her head. “Tell me why you won’t just tell me the truth.” Alex exhaled sharply. “Because you don’t wan
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The tension in the boardroom was suffocating. Every eye in the room was on Michelle, some filled with suspicion, others with outright disdain. She sat rigidly, her fingers curled into fists beneath the table as Eleanor, poised and elegant as always, placed a stack of documents in front of her. “I think we can all agree,” Eleanor said smoothly, “that a breach of this magnitude is unacceptable.” Murmurs of agreement rippled through the room. Michelle swallowed hard. “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”What was happening? What's Eleanor up to this time? She thought. Eleanor’s lips curved into a mockery smile. “Then allow me to enlighten you.” She gestured to the screen at the front of the room, where a series of emails and encrypted files were displayed. “These records show that confidential company data was accessed using your credentials and from your office laptop. And, as you can see, they were transmitted outside of Hawthorne Enterprises.”Which means these files were sent o
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