Chapter 25
The Truth They Watched The silence inside the abandoned office stretched so long that Kaia could hear every individual drop of rain striking the broken roof overhead. Nobody answered her question. Not Rowan. Not the men near the doorway. No one. And suddenly the absence of an answer terrified her more than any explanation could have. Kaia’s fingers tightened around the photograph still clutched in her hand while her pulse hammered unevenly beneath her skin. The room felt smaller now, the stale air pressing heavily against her lungs as every instinct she had screamed that the truth standing in front of her was about to change everything. “What does that have to do with me?” she asked again, quieter this time. Rowan looked at her like he was trying to decide whether telling her the
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