The Target
341 Words
The cameras wouldn’t stop flashing.
“Elena! Did you leak the data?..Were you working against your husband?”
“Is this marriage part of a cover-up?”Her heart pounded as the accusations hit one after another.
“I didn’t do anything,” she said, her voice steady despite the chaos but no one listened.
They never do a hand suddenly grabbed her arm.
“Come with me.”Elena turned sharply.A man in a dark suit stood beside her.
“Who are you?”Someone trying to keep you out of prison,” he said quietly.
Her pulse spiked I don’t need—”Yes you do.”
His grip tightened slightly as he pulled her away from the crowd.
“Because right now,” he continued, “you’re the easiest person to blame Elena’s stomach dropped.
“Blame for what? He glanced around, lowering his voice.
“The data leak, the fraud literally everything.”
“That’s insane.”Is it?” he said. “You’re his wife. You signed legal documents,You’re connected to every move he made.”
Her mind raced No… this is wrong.”
“It’s planned,” he corrected.The word hit her hard.Planned Just like Alexander said.
She pulled her arm free.
“Why are you helping me?”The man studied her for a moment.
Then he said something that made her heart stop.
“Because Alexander Wolfe asked me to.”Her breath caught.
“You know him?”Yes.”
“Then help me get to him ,a pause dangerous one the man shook his head slowly.
“You don’t understand.”Her chest tightened.
“Understand what?”His eyes darkened slightly.
“By now… he’s probably already confessed.
Elena froze.
“Confessed?”That he’s responsible for everything.Her heart dropped.
“No… he wouldn’t—”He would,” the man said quietly.
“To protect you.”Silence crashed around her
Heavy Unbearable.
And for the first time—Elena felt something she hadn’t allowed herself to feel before.
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