Chapter 7 - Richard Captured Me and Offered Ruby’s Life in Exchange for the Archive, but My Daughter Used the One Lesson Her Mother Had Taught HerThe island was heavily protected.
We were surrounded.
Richard captured me.
Ruby was separated.
I could hear her screaming.
“Daddy!”
I wanted to break every rule.
But Richard smiled.
“Give me the archive.”
“No.”
“You'll watch her die.”
I stared.
Then I heard Ruby.
Quiet.
Calm.
“Daddy.”
I listened.
She was tapping something.
Three times.
Pause.
Three times.
It was our old signal.
Something Amelia had taught her.
It meant:
I'm okay.
I smiled.
Richard didn't understand.
Ruby had hidden the real archive key.
Inside her shoe.
I had taught her never to hide important things in obvious places.
Apparently, she'd been listening.
The guards searched her.
They missed it.
Ruby kicked the key toward me.
I caught it.
Everything changed.
My men attacked.
Richard escaped.
Ruby was rescued.
But the archive was gone.
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He had taken it.
Now the final confrontation was coming.
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