Chapter 43 The aftermath
Elena’s POV
The world feels quieter after a man dies — not in peace, but in shock.
Marlowe’s death hits the headlines before breakfast. Cade Board Member Found Dead in Restaurant Shooting. The article is short, impersonal, and deliberately vague. The photo shows a blurred body beneath a whi...
Chapters
1. Chapter 1 The debt trap
2. Chapter 2 Masked party
3. Chapter 3 A taste of his world
4. Chapter 4 Near kiss
5. Chapter 5 Dance of defiance
6. Chapter 6 Guilded Cage
7. Chapter 7 First night
8. Chapter 8 Mask at the table
9. Chapter 9 Glass walls
10. Chapter 10 Making findings
11. Chapter 11 Shadows of the past
12. Chapter 12 The ghost I buried
13. Chapter 13 Cracks in the ice
14. Chapter 14 Haunted by ghosts
15. Chapter 15 Cold and hot
16. Chapter 16 Exposed
17. Chapter 17 His shield
18. Chapter 18 Unexpected shield
19. Chapter 19 Vulnerable victory
20. Chapter 20 A shift
21. Chapter 21 Beneath the mask
22. Chapter 22 Fire and control
23. Chapter 23 The cage of care
24. Chapter 24 Cameras and protection
25. Chapter 25 Walls have eyes
26. Chapter 26 Behind watchful mask
27. Chapter 27 The shadow in the glass
28. Chapter 28 The key within
29. Chapter 29 The hidden compartment
30. Chapter 30 Safe deposit..
31. Chapter 31 Fragments
32. Chapter 32 Crosshairs
33. Chapter 33 Aftershock
34. Chapter 34 The betrayer
35. Chapter 35 Gala of Masks
36. Chapter 36 The Ledger
37. Chapter 37 Room Seven
38. Chapter 38 Confession
39. Chapter 39 Missing Pieces
40. Chapter 40 Family Lines
41. Chapter 41 A reporters blade
42. Chapter 42 PUBLIC play
43. Chapter 43 The aftermath
44. Chapter 44 Marlowe
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