Chapter 4 - The Puppet Master
Jared didn't fire Elena. Instead, he played a dangerous game. He told her that Atlas had been taken to a secure facility to recover.
I watched from the shadows as Elena made a phone call in the garden. She was nervous, pacing near the rosebushes. "He’s gone," she hissed into the phone. "The cleaning girl... she’s too observant. You need to handle it."
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I leaned in, my heart thumping. I heard a voice on the other end—a voice I recognized. It was Brendan. My Brendan. The man I had spent years running from.
The room tilted. He hadn't just found me; he was playing a game of chess with a Mafia king, using me as the pawn.
