Chapter 10 - Marcus Captured Me Instead—But He Made One Fatal Mistake by Revealing What Was Hidden in My Mother’s Old HouseMarcus found me.
I was taken to an abandoned clinic.
He showed me a photograph of my mother.
“She left something for you.”
“What?”
“A message.”
He played an old recording.
My mother's voice filled the room.
“Nora, if you're hearing this, then the people I feared finally found you.”
I cried.
She explained where the ledger was hidden.
Not in a bank.
Not in a safe.
Inside the wall of my childhood bedroom.
Marcus smiled.
“You're going to take me there.”
“No.”
Then the lights went out.
Adrian had arrived.
He had tracked the signal.
Marcus escaped.
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But my father was rescued.
And the recording gave us the final clue.
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